The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1895-12-28

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
| hunQtUG i8oC OF tunnels, drifts ana opsn-
| ings Nert. nude. The ledge was shipped
anu exposed Oh the west end the mine
| for u dlsotoce Of three hundred feet hich
! showed tne ie4 sc to be very large. One OF
! the prilicip&i openings, the one leading to
what Is known dts the cave, is reached
| thr0tgn q tunnel silky feet IN length, 1T
| when polnt 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 thir-
| ty-tve feet to the north. Several cross, ats
were made at different places, all OF watch
are in ore of good grade. To the west Of
the work i'll the cave are otner 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 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 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 tailings. ApproXi-
mately seven dollars . ton was saved by
| this process, SIS shown by the returns bv
| Watson under oath to the assessor OF White
Pine county, for the purpose OF tsxation.
This would give, adding the gold lost III
the tailings an average OF fourteen dollars
ton in the ore worked. The amount tax
EN- out in the aggregate was something
over fifteen thousand doii@rs. IN exact
figures are on record in the office of the
assessor Of White Pine county," Some dis
lance further to the west there IS tunnel
ore 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 ayerape OF the
different samples taken glylng $4.l3 in rold.
amount of ore in SIGHT. 1t would be diff |
cult indeed for all estimates to he ma@e |
with any degree OF accuracy. Some, bow |
ever, have shown more than fifteen taou- !
sand tons of the average value OF $3.50 per |
ton The gold is free bat the clay and |
oxide of iron require more than the ordi- |
nary plate t,rocess Tor saving the Poid.
The Joanna mine has been unfortunate, it |
When the first great strike was mace, and /
il was known that ii was mine OF unusual |
merit, ltigatiO began which ran through |
the courts for term OF several years III
great expense and annoyance 10 the owner. |
The property was tied up and could not De |
united until the Judgment OF the court was |
had During this litigation y number of |
mining men visited the Joana al various |
times and made examinations o. the prop |
erty. 1t is generally believed tnat the !
property met their expectation and was
satisfactory; but the Jaw sui ,s stood in the |
way until all were tired or5, fiAa 4. BCt |
been for this unforsuna+c afieir Is wcu,d |
no doubt, be one o. the large pTo1uC rs C
the day, and the 1sFrieI OF Robinson
would bc in quite a ciiersu- c9i1''ii zio;'
The Joana mine is now INC rEo2es;F 81
jackson These g0ntiemcp own q number
OF mines in the district.
Joanna NO. 2,
The property of Nressrs. Ostergard, Housc.
LAWSON Hip and others, adioins 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 obey have some good ore,
the same as the Joanna in character. ont
OF a number OF tons milled from this prop
erty II per ton in gold was saved
CHAIRMAN GROUP,
The property OF Messrs Lyons, MeGin,
| McOmie and Uuderhill, il situate1 Cd Ault-
man hill, adjoining the Aultman mine on
| the west and the Joanna No on the south
! The groupis composed OF five miues, which
are the Chairman Chainman Gore, Turkey Y
Southern Cross-au 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 the
| ledge at point 800 feet from the mouth Of
| the tunnel, and 125 from the surface Al |
| 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 been run to the east - feet
to Il Wine which extends down to q second !
or lower level o. the mine, distance OF
100 feet below the tnnne or first level |
Thus it viii be seen the total depth at this
| point is DIT feet. Going back to q point
where the lateral drift vest leaves the |
tunnel distance OfsiXty 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 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 Sl1 per ton There is |
an opening to the surfGee q 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 q eroSscut 10 the north. The dis
lance taken from the back OF the stcpe
and 70 the end OF The cross ut shows the
ledge to be AZ feet wide. Tho ore Slope
extends along the lateral drift to the west,
u distance Of fifty feet to another crossCut
to the north, and shows the ledge to be
twentvfour feet wide The crosscut is not
entirely across the ledge. An average gives
S6 so Pold per ton. Fifty feet further west
| in the lateral drift another another cross
cut is made to the north twenty EIGHT feet:
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