The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1895-11-02

just below and adjoining the Ault-
man on the north is the
Joanna MINE,
Whose rich ore attracted so much at
tention about three years ago. 1t is
separated from the Aultman by a
small porphyry dyke. The late A.
r. Watson was the original locator,
and through his energy the mine was
opened and developed. While MIR.
Watson operated the mine about fifteen
hundred feet Of tunnels, drifts and open
| iugs were made. The ledge was stripped
and exposed on the west eud of the mine
! for a distance of three hundred feet when
! showed the ledge to be very large. one OF
| the principal openings, the one leading TO
! what is known as the cave, is reached
| through tunnel sixty feet in length, at
which point a cave was encountered ana
| the ore vein WAS also reached. From TINS
| point an incline forty-tive feet IN aepth
| was sunk At the bottom of the incline
drift was driven one hundred ana twenty
| five feet to the east, and also another thlr-
! ty-five feet to the north. Several cross 1ts
| were made at different places, all OF which
are in ore of good grade. To the west OF
| the work in the cave are other extensive
works, in which large amount of drifting
and sinking has been done and quantity
! of good ore was exposed. great many
tons of ore were milled from this portion
of the mine with fair results From a
| statment of facts regarding the Joana
mine, prepared by the Hon. Thos. Wren of
Eureka, Nevada, the following quotation
| is made: 1.-THE ore was reduced at small
| ten stamp water mill at the town OF Ely,
about three miles from the mine. The mill
! is poorly constructed and the only appli-
| ances tor saving gold were copper plates.
Less than one-half the gold was saved by
| this mode Of working, as was shown by
| constant assays of the ta1l1ngs. APPROX
| mataiy seven dollars q ton was saved by
this process, as shown by the returns BY
| Watson under oath to the assessor OF White
| Pine county, for the purpose OF taxation
| This would give, adding the gold lost III
the tailings, an average or fourteen collars
| a ton in the ore worked. The amount TAX
| en- out in the aggregate was something
| over fifteen thousand dollars The exact
| figures are on record in the othce OF the
assessor of White Pine county" Some dis
| lance further to the west there is tunnel
| one hundred and fifty feet in length that
! cross-cuts the ledge The whole length OF
the tunnel is in ledge matter Some time
ago this tunnel was sampled in sections by
| an experienced sampler, the average of the
different samples taken giving $i15 in gold.
| There have been various estimates OF the
amount of ore in sight. 1t would be diff
| cult indeed for all estimates to be mace
| with any degree of accuracy. Some, how
L,
| sand tons of the average value OF $3.50 per
! ton The gold is free bnt the clay and
| oxide of iron require more than the ordl-
nary plate process for saving the gold.
| The Joana mine has been unfortunate, it
| has suffered as many mines have before it.
| When the first great strike was made, and
| ii was known that it was mine of unusual
| merit 1itieatio began which ran through
| the courts for term of several years at
great expense and annoyance TO the owner.
! The property was tied up and could not be
| united until the Judgment OF the court was
| had. During this filtration a number OF
| mining men visited the Joaua at various
times and made examinations o. the prop
| erty. It is generally believed that the
! property met their expectations and WAS
| satisfactory; hut the INV s#itS stoo" n the
way until al Wer3 ifaG or. Had : ~,
| been for this uafpriu;ltc 4ilhir il wGu {,
| no doubt, be o1s o. the i5rTg rroluC-Ie =
the day. aud TIE 9ietr;ct o. Euh;nso,l
would be in quiga a11crs1E ccnii.;o:.
The Joanna mine IS nov me EEoi e. ..
Messrs. Hin, Wran. Inenc. SA&i,z an
| jackson. These ~an$lencn own a number
| O. mines in the district.
Joanna No. .,
! The property Of Nessrs Ostergard, House.
Lawson, Hip and others, adjoins the Jo-
ana on the west. There has been consid-
cradle work done, but not sufficient to
develop the value of the claim In the
deepest working they have some good { re,
of a number of tons milled from this prop
erty 81 per ton in gold was saved.
CHAIRMAN GROUP,
! The property of Messrs Lyons, NcGill
| McOmie and UnGerEill, is situate! on Ault-
man hill, adjoinine the Aultman mine on
the west and the Joanna No 2 on the south
| The groups composed of five mines, which
| are the Chairman Chairman Gore Turkey V
| Southern Cross-dll adjacent to other The
| II il,
| ~ done upon the Chairman and Chairman
! Gore mines. The entrance to the mine is
| through large tunnel which taps the
| ledge at point 500 feet from the mouth Of
the tunnel, and 125 from the surface. At
! the point OF intersection made by the tuu-
mel and ledge q lateral drift has been run
| TO the west distance of 800 feet; also, a
| lateral drift has beer run to the east 70 feet
| to d Wine which extends down to second
or lower level Of the mine, distance of
| 100 feet below the tnnnel or first level
Thus it will be seen the total depth at this
point is 227 feet. Going back to Point
where the lateral drift vest leaves the
tunnel distance OF sixty feet 10 west in tn Q
drlit crosScut has been made to the south
| and an openin to the Forth at the same
| point, which shows the ledge at this point
| to be thirty feet wide. Forty feet further
| to the west, in the lateral drift, there is 81
slope TO the south where some ore has been
| extracted and reduced at the Chairman
mill, which averaged Sl1 per ton There is
an opening to the surface a distance of
! something more than 100 feet through the
roof OF the stope, which is in ore all the
way. On the opposite side OF the drift
| there is crosscut to the north. The dis
| lance taken from the back of the ste pc
and to the end of the cross mt shows the
ledge to be AZ feet wide Tho ore stope
extends along the lateral DRIFT 10 the west,
d distance OF fifty feet to another crOsscut
to the north, and shows the ledge TO De
| tWentyfOur feet wide. The CrOSScut il n of