The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1895-04-06

on what is known as Aultman Hill.
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
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 on 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 g cave was encountered and
the ore vein was also reached. From this
point an incline forty-fiye 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 thlr-
ty-five 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 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 Joanna
mine, prepared by the Hon. Thos. Wren OF
Eureka, Nevada, the following quotation
is made: "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 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 was 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 in
the tailiHgs, an average OF fourteen dollars
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 office OF the
assasso" of White Pine county" Some dis
lance further to the west there IS tunnel
one hundred and fifty feet III length that
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 Sal 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
sand tons of the average value OF $3.50 per
ton. The gold is free but the clay and
oxide Of iron require more than the ordi-
nary plate process for saving the gold.
The Joanna mine has been unfortunate, 1t
has suffered as many min have before 1t.
When the first great strike was made and
il was known that it was mine OF unusual
| merit, liuratio began which ran through
the courts for 8 term of several years at
| The property was tied up and could not be
united until the JUDGMENT OF the court was
| had. During this litigation number of
| mining men visited the Joanna at various
times and made examiratioas O. the prop
ertv. 1t is generally believed That the
! property met their expectations and was
| satisfactory; hut the law suits stood in the
way until ell were tired ont. Had it not
been for this unfortunate affair it would,
| no doubt, be one OF the large producers OF
the day, and the district OF Robinson
would 10 in quite different condition.
The joapa mine is now the property Of
Neasrs, ltlp, Wren, Cheney, Sadler and
Jackson. These gentlemen own number
% mines in the district
Joanna NO. .,
The property Of Measrs Disregard, House
| Lawson, Hin and others, adjUips the DO
| ana on the west. There has been consid-
| cradle Norl, done. but not sufficient to
develop the yalte Of the claim. In the
| deepest working they have some good ore,
| the same as TIE Joanna in character. Ont
OF g number of teas millad from this prop
eryy 81 per ton in gold was saved.
CHAIRMAN GROUP,
The property Of Messrs. Lyons, McGin,
McOmje and U0derhill, is situated on Ault-
nau hill, al Joining the Aultman mine on
the west and the joana No. 2 on the south
The grenpis compared of FIVE mines, which
are the Chainman Chairman Gore, Turkey V
| Southern CrOSs-all sdjacentto other. The
development work upon the group is ost-
ly done upOn the ChSinman and Chairman
Gore mines. 1hc entrance to the mine is
| through i large tunnel, which taps the
ledge Ut a point 600 feet from the mouth of
the tunnel, and 1875 from the surface. At
the point of intersection made by the tun-
mel and ledge lateral drift has been run
to the west a distance of 500 feet also, a
lateral drift has beep run to the east 70 feet
TO Wine which extends down to second
or lower level Of the mine, n distance of
loo feet below the tnnnel or first level
Thus it Will be seen the total depth at this
point is 227 feet Going back to a point
where the lateral drift 6est leaves the
tunnel " distance ofsiXty feet to west in the
| DRIFT a crOsscut has been made to the south,
| and an opening to the north at the same
poiut, which shows the ledge at this point
to be thirty feet wide. Forty feet further
| to the west, in the lateral drift, there is q
Slope to the south where some ore has been
| extracted and reduced at the Chairman
| mill, which averaged $11 per ton. There is
au opening to the surface distance OF
something more than 100 feet through the
roof OF the stope, which is in ore all the
i way. On the opposite side OF the drift
| there is crOSscut to the north. The dis
| lance taken from the back of the stope
and to the end of the crOss1ut shows the
! ledge to be 40 feet wide The ore stope
extends along the lateral drift to the west,
a distance of fifty feet to another crosscut
| l., a,,1 oh, tho 1aEl.- l.