The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1895-06-08

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Whose rich ore attracted so much At
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Jenbioh aDOuJ bilfee years ago. IL Is
senarated from the AultmaD bV n
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small pOfphyf5 dyke. Inc ItOo =.
r.. Watson WAS the original locator,
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ana through Ills energy the ihlilc WAS
onann1 and deyeloue1. While Jr
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w atson operated Ltie nine aDOab uIte@H
hundred feet OF tunnels, drifts ana open
ings were made The ledge was striped
and exposed on the west eud OF the nine
for distance of three hundred feet which
showed the ledge to be very large One of
the principal openinPs, the one lending 10
what is known as the cave, is reached
through a tunnel sixty feet in length, at
which point cave was encountered end
the ore vein was also reached. From his
point an incline forty-liye feet i'll depth
was sunk. al the bottom OF the incline
DRIFT was driven one hundred and twenty
five feet to the east, and also another thir-
ty-fiye feet to the north. Seyero! cross-ratS
were made at different places, all OF when
are in ore OF good grade. To the west OF
the work in the cave are other extensive
works, in which n large amount of drifting
and sinking has been done aud a quantity
of good ore WAS exposed. crest many
tons of ore were milled from this poHtion
o. ~ tno ~ f fontS .,.[ariing Tho Jn,na
mine, prepared by the Hon. Thos. Wrcp Of
Eureka, Nevada, The following quotation
il made: :" The ore was reduced st small
ten stamp water null AT the town OF ELY,
about three mics rom the mine me hli!l
IL poorly conStructeq ana the only appll-
auces Tor saving gold were copper plates.
Less thau one-hGlf the gold was saved by
this mode of working, as was SHOWN by
constant assays OF The taillngs ApproXl-
matelY seven dollars a ION was saVed BY
this process, 0s shown by the returns bV
Watson under oath TO The assessor 81 ware
Pine county, for the purpose O ttN1ii3n.
This would give, adding the goia 1851 ~
The tai{ings an average OF fourteen GoilarS
a ton in the ore worked. Inc amount Tux
en- oat in the aggregate was something
over fifteen thousand dollars. the exact
figures ara on record in the office OF the
asstssO" OF White Pine county" some dis
tance FUR her 10 the west there is tunnel
ono hundred and nifty feet IN lemon that
crJss-cuts the ledge. The whole length OF
the tunnel is ia ledge matter. Some time
naO this tunnel was sampled III sections by
an experienced sampler, the AVERAGE OF the
dr.. ereAt samples taken giving SHE in goid.
rn-ra h@re been various estimates of the
amount OF ore in siGht. 1t would be dtrli-
cult indeed for all estimates to be maze
with any degree OF accuracy. Some, now
ever, have shown more than fifteen thou
saud tons of the average value Of 1850 ger
eoD. The p0d is free bat the cay a'ld
oxide oI iron reqaire more than The Crttl-
aHrv plate proctSs Tor saving the ro!d.
Ihe IoSlia mine mas be3n unortunate, it
hqs suffered as many min 5 have before H.
4 hen tlle first great strike was made, and
L ST ~ l,uo>vu thot il was mine of undsltpl
f.ta1iE ll5ieati0 gan Wtlca ran through
a. cAr rtS iOr terra O; several Yeats at
Great exI ,erse AND annoyance 10 the oWn-t
The lsropeTly vas Jie'i np ai'1 rould not b
united g,util the JUDGEMENT oi IL" ce7rt W..
Nm; Di,r:r+o this LITIGATION Il u11.i (,1T nj