The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1895-08-31

| y tlSU DclON tuu duJOlhliiS oilo AuA0
man on che north is the
Joanna NINE,
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 Mr..
Watson operated the mine about fifteen
hundred feet of tunnels, drifts and open
| ings were made. The ledge was stripped
! and exposed GA the west end of the mine
| for distance of three hundred feet which
| 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 and
| the ore vein was also reached. From this
| point an incline forty-fve feet in depth
| was sunk. At the bottom of the incline
| drift was driven one hundred and twenty
| five feet to the east, and also another thir-
| ty-hve feet to the north. Several cross-cuts
| 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 a quantity
/
| tons of ore were milled from this portion
| of the mine with fair results. From n
| statment of facts regarding the Joanna
! mine, prepared by the Hon. Thos. Wren of
Eureka, Nevada, the following quotation
| is made "The ore was reduced ut 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 for 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 tailings. Approx
mately seven dollars ton WIS saved by
| this process, as shown by the returns bv
Watson under oath to the assessor Of White
Pine county, for the purpose OF taxation.
This would give, adding the gold lost III
the tail1ngS, an average OF fourteen dollars
q 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 office of the
assesso" of White Pine county," Some dis
lance further to the west there is q tunnel
one hundred and fifty feet in length that
the tunnel is in ledge matter. Some time
ago this tunnel was sampled in sections by
an experienced sampler, the average of TIE
different samples taken giving $4.l5 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 made
with any degree OF accuracy. Some, how
ever have shown more than fifteen thou
ton. The gold is free bnt the clay and
oxide of iron require more than the ordi-
nary plate process for saving the cold
The Joanna mine has been unfortunate, it
has suffered as many min s have before it,
When the first great strike was made, and
ii was known that 1T was mine OF unusual
merit, litigation began which ran through
the conrts for q term OF several years ut
great expense and ailnoyane, 10 the owner
The property was TIED up and could not ba
united until the judgment OF the coart WA9
had. During this litigation al number 81
mining men visited the JoeDa st various
times and made examinations o. the prop
erty. 1t is generally believed rhat III
property met their expectations and NIB
aatiefactory but the law suits stood in IL
way until al We're tired out. He'd il not
been for this unfortunate affair IL would,
no doubt, be one of the large producers cf
the day, and the district OF Robinson
would be in quite a different condition.
The JoN1a mine Is now the property OF
Messrs, Hip, Wren, Cheney, Sadier add
Jackson. These gentlemen own & number
OF mines in the district.
Joanna No. .,
The property of Messrs. Ostergara, House.
Lawson, Hip and others, adjoinS the DO
ana on the west. There has been cOnsid-
cradle work done, hut not sufficient TO
develop the value OF the claim. In the
deepest working they have some good ore,
the same as the Joanna il character. Out
erty 81 per ton in gold was saved.
CHAIRMAN GROUP,
The property of Messrs. Lyons, MoGill,
McOmie and Underhill, is situated on Ault-
man hill, adjoining the Aultman mine on
the west and the Joanna No 2 on the south
The group is composed of five mines which
are the Chairman Chairman Gore, Turkey V
Southern Cross-all adjacent to other The
development WORK upon the group is most
" Il "a 4 hat,
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 tun-
mel and ledge lateral drift has been run
to the west distance of 500 feet; also, a
lateral drift has been run to the east rs feet
to Wine which extends down to a second
or lower level of the mine, distance of
100 feet below the tnnnel or first level.
Thus it viii be seen the total depth at this
point Is 22l feet. Going back to point
where the lateral DRIFT vest leaves the
tunnel distance ofsiXty feet to west in the
drltt crosscut has been made to the south,
ana an opening to the north 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 a
Slope 10 the south where some GRE has been
extracted and reduced at the Chairman
mill, which averaged 81 per ton There is
an opening to the surface 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 cpe
and to the end OF the crosSaut shows the
ledge to be ~ feet wide. Th9 ore stoDe
extends along the lateral DRIFT to the west,
distance OF fifty feet to another crescent
to the north, and shows the ledge to be
tWenty-four feet wide. The crosscUt Is not
entirely across the ledge. an average gives