The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1895-05-18


Joanna NINE,
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 eud of the niue
! for d 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 cave was encountered and
| the ore vein was also reached. From this
point an incline forty-five 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-
| tyfye feet to the north. Several cross-cnts
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
statment of facts regarding the Joaua
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-
anccs 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
mateiy seven dollars ton was saved by
| y iS 81 shown
| Watson under oath to the assessor OF White
! Pine county, for the purpose OF texAtion.
| This would give, adding the golu lost i'll
| the tailingS, an average OF fourteen dollars
q ton i'll 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
| asse $50" Of White Pine county," Some dis
| lance further to the west there is q 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
au experienced sampler, the average of the
different samples taken giving $4.15 in pold.
| Thare have been various estimates OF the
am cunt of ore in sight. 1t would be lift
| emit indeed for all estimates to be mnGe
vi any degree OF accuracy. Some, how
ever, have shoa'n more than fifteen thou
sand tons of the average value OF $l250 per
| ton. The pold is free bnt the cny and
oxide Of iron require more than the ordi-
nary plate process Tor saving the gold.
| The Joanna mine has been unfortunate, It
has Suffered as many min have before it.
| When he first great STRIFE was made, and
il was known Tat it was mine OF unusual
ms it litiFatio Degan which ran through
| the courts for term OF several years vt
great expense and annoyauc. 10 the owner.
| The property was tied up and could rot be
united until the ipdgment Of the court Wa
| had. Oar 40 this litigation "a number OF
mining meli visited tie Joana at various
tinss aud lf,ade organizations o. the prop
| Ia u al h..
| property met their expectations ani WAS
| satisfactory; bat the law sri.s toni in the
WY until al were tired out. Had it not
been for this unfortunate afA.r il would,
! 40 Doubt k,, one of the large roduc rs u
he cay aad the district Oh Eoninson
would he in quite u different condicion,
The Joa1;e niue is now the property Of
Messre, Hin, Wren, Cheney, 5adler n'id
jackson. These gentlemen own number
o mines in the district.
Joanna NO. >,
| Thr property Of Massrs. Disregard, House
| Lawson, Hip and others, adjoius the DO
| apa on the west. There has been consid-
efdbla work done, but not suliicient to
| develop the value of the claim. In the
| de.rest working they have some good ore
the same as the Joanna in character Out
| Of il number of tons milled from this prop
cry 81 per ton in gold was saved.
CHAIRMAN GROUP,
| /
McOmie and Upderhll is situated on Ault-
| man hill, adjoining the Aultman mine on
| the west and the Joanna No. 2 on the south
The proupis composed of five mines, which
are the Chairman chairman Gore, Turkey
Southern Cross--all adjacent to other. The
| development work upon the group is most
| ly done upon the chairman and Chairman
Gore mines. The entrance to the mine is
through large tunnel, which taps tile
| ledge at 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 n lateral drift has been run
to the west a distance of 800 feet; also, a
| lateral drift has beep run to the east 70 feet
| to a Wine which extends down to a second
or lower level of the mine, q distance of
| 100 feet below the tnnuel 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 to west in the
| drift crosscut has been made to the south,
and 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
| stope to the south where some ore has been
! extracted and reduced at the Chairman
mill, which averaged 81 per ton, There is
an opening to the surface a distance of
| something more than 100 feet through the
roof of the stopc, which is in ore oil the
way On the opposite side Of the drift
| there is a crosscut to the north. The dis
! lance taken from the back of the stope
and to the end Of the cross ut shows the
ledge to be AZ feet wide. The ore stope
extends along the lateral drift to the west,
a distance Of fifty feet to another c1osscut
| to the north and shows the ledge to be
| twenty-four feet wide. The crosscut is not
entirely across the ledge. An average gives
Sc 80 gold per ton. Fifty feet further west
| in the lateral drift another another cross
cut is made to the north twenty eight feet