The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1895-07-20

man on 5he north is the
JohNA MINE.
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 faqf OF tuuaels drifts aud open
! iuoa ,yer. IN ade. The ledge was stripped
! ard exposed on the vest eld Of the nine
! for a distance OF three hundred feet which
! showed the ledge t. be very large. ono OF
| thr rTirpiual OPENINGS, the one leading To
! what j. known as Inc cave, IS reRehei
! through d tunnel sixty feet in length, fst
! which point q cave was encountered ana
the ore vein was also reached. From this
point an incline forry-fVe feet in depth
was sunk. A5 the bottom Of the incline Il
drift was driven one hundred and twenty
| FIVE feet TO the east, and also another thlr-
| ty-fye feet TO the north. Several cr0ss-cat Is
| were made at different places, all Of which
sre in ore Of coed 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 q quantity
OF good ore was exposed, A great many
to3s Of ore were mflled from this portion
of the mine WITH fair results, From a
statment of facts recording the Joana
mine, prepared by the Hon. fhos. Wren OF
| Eureka. Nevada, the following quotat1ou
Is made: "Tne ore was reduced at a 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-h half the gold was saved by
| this mode of working, as was SHOWN by
! constant assays of the tailings. Approx
| mately seven dollars a ton was saved by
this process, as shown by the returns ov
| Watson under oath to the assessor OF w hlte
| Pine county, for the purpose OF taxation
| This would give, adding the gold lost IN
| the tailings, an average OF fourteen dollars
a ton in the ore worked. Inc amount TAX
| en- out in the aggregate was something
! over fifteen thousand dollars. The 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
one hundred and fifty feet in lenPth 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 average OF the
! different samples taken giving S4.l3 IN cold
| There have been various estimates OF the
amount of ore in sight 1t would be diff
cult indeed for all estimates to be mace
with any degree of accuracy. Some, now
| ever, have shown more than fifteen thou
| sand tons of the average value OF $3.50 per
| ton. The gold is free bnt the clay and
| oxide of iron require more than the Ordl-
! nary plate process for saving the gold.
Tile Joana mine has been unfortunate, 1t
| has suffered as many min S have before It,
| When the first great strike was made, and
| il was known that 1t was mine OF unusua
| merit, litigatio began WIlch ran through
| the courts for 3 term OF several years at
great expense and annoyance 10 the owner
The prOpertv was tied up and cOuld net be
united NATL tho Judgment OF the court was
had Durine this litigation numbe q
| ;r;A Ol tan n
times and made examinations o. the prop
erty. It is generally believed that the
property met their expectations and vas
Satisfactory; but the law. SUITS atooa y, N
wav upti1 all w-r: tired 0"t. Had II not
been for this unfortunate affair 1T would:
10 dcfht be one OF the large producars of
he day, Mnd the district OF Robinson
wonla DC in quite a different eoaditiou.
The Joan. mine is DOW the prop@fty O.!
AiessrE, Nip, Wren, Cheney, eadlar Hac'
jackson. These gentlemen own number
O. mines III he district.
JOAN No. .,
The property of Messrs. Oatorgnr9, Forso.
Lawson. Rijp end others, aIioins the do
tas OF She west. There has been eonsid-
cradle work done, but not saihclent TO
develop the value of the claim. In the
tcapes( working they have some good ore,
the s&nIe as the ioana i'll character Out
| 81 a number Of tons milled from this prop
cTty 81 pei ton in gold was saved
CHAIRMAN GROUP,
The property of Messrs. Lyons, McGill,
, McOmie and Uuderhill, is situated on Ault-
man hill, adjoining the Aultman mine on
the west and the JoanN NO. on the south
The group is com posed OF five mines, when
are the Chairman Chairman Gore, Turkey V
Southern CroGs-all adjacent to other. The
DEVELOPMENT work upon the group IS most
~ done upon the Chairman and Chairman
{ Gore mines. The entrance to the mine is
through large tunnel, which taps the
: ledge al a point 900 feet from the mouth OF
the tunnel, and 125 from the surface. AT
t the point OF intersection made by the tun-
y mel and ledge "A lateral drift h&s been run
; to the Weet Il distance of 500 feet; also, q
lateral drift has been run to the east 70 feet
TO WinZe which extends down to second
or lower level of the mine, distance OF
? 100 feet below tie tnnnel or first level.
Thus it will be seen the total depth at this
point is 227 feet Going back 10 point
, where the lateral drift vest leaves the
tunnel u distance of sixty feet to west in TIN
drift crosscut has been made to the south,
and en 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 q
. Slope to the south where some ore has been
!, extracted and reduced at the chairman
mill, which averaged S11 per ton. There is
an opening to the surface 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 crosscut to the north. The dis
lance taken from the back OF the st pc
and to the end of the cross nut shows the
ledge to be AZ feet wide. The ore stope
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
twenty-four feet wide. The crosscut is not
entirely across the ledge. An average gives
Sc 50 cold per ton. Fifty feet further west