The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1895-12-21

OIL what IL khO"H a. 9nGm0n I'LL.
Just below and ADJOINING the Adlt-
man on the north is the
JoANA MINE,
Whose rich ore attrdcGed 50 much az
tention about three years ago IL Is
separated from the Aultman oy q
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 opeu-
ings were made. The ledge was stripped
and ed on the west cid of the mine
for q distance of three hundred feet which
showed the Ledge to be very large. One Of
the principal openings, the one leading to
whPt N9own as the cave, is reached
through tunnel sixty feet in length, at
which point a 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
ty-fiye feet to the north. Several crosse uts
we're 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 orl1ting
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 q
statment of facts regsrd1ng the Joana
mine, prepared by the Hon. Thos. Wren of
Eureka, Nevada, the following quotation
is made: 1.-THE ore was reduced at a small
ten stamp water mill at the town or Ely,
about three miles from the mine. Ihe mill
is poorly constructed and the only appli-
anccs tor saving gold were copper plates.
Less than one-ha1f 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 by
Watson under oath to the assessor of White
Pine county, for the purpose OF taxatlon.
This would give, adding the gold lost III
the tailings, an average OF fourteen dollars
n ton in the ore worked. The amount TAX
en- out in the aggregate was something
over fifteen thousand dollars me exact
figures are on record in the office OF the
assesso~ OF White Pine county" Some dis
lance further to the west there is a tunnel
one hundred and nifty feet IN iength 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 SAL in gold.
There have been various estimates OF the
amount of ore in sight 1t would be diff
cllt 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 cold is free bnt the clay and
oxide of iron require more than the 0rdl-
nary plate process for saving the gold.
The Joanna mine has been unfortunate, 1T
has 81 ffered as many min nave before 1t:
When the first great strike was made, and
il was known that it was mine OF unusual
merit litigatioI began which ran through
the courts for term of several years at
great expense and annoyance to the owner.
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 examinations o. the prop
erty. 1t is generally believed that the
property met their expectations and was
satisfactory; but the law suits stood in the
way until all were tired out. H'sd Il not
been for this unfortunaGe affair II would
no doubt be one OF the large producers Of
the day, and the district OF Robinson
would be in quite a different condi ioa.
The Joana mine is now the proper OF
Messrs, Hip, Wren. Cheney. Sadic1 and
jackson. These gentlemen own number
o. mines in the district.
Joanna NO. 2,
The property of Messrs. Ostergard, House.
| Lawson, Hip and others, adjoins the Jo-
ana on the west There has been consid-
| develop the value of the claim. In the
| deepest working they have some good ore,
| the same as the Joanna in character. out
| of number of tons milled from this prop
erty 81 per ton in gold was saved
CHAIRMAN GROUP,
| The property of Messrs. Lyons, McGll,
! McOmie and Underhill is situated on Ault-
| man hill, adjoining the Aultman mine on
the west and the Joanna No. on the south
The group is 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 the
| ledge at a point 500 feet from the mouth of
| the tunnel, and 125 from the surface. At
| the point Of intersection made by the tun-
| mel and ledge lateral drift has been run
to the west distance of 500 feet; also,
lateral drift has been run to the east Is feet
to Wine which extends down to a second
or lower level of the mine, distance of
leo 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 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
stope to the south where some ore has been
extracted and reduced at the Chairman
| mill, which averaged $11 per ton There is
an opening to the surface a 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
lance taken from the back of the ST pc
and to the end of the crossaut shows the
! ledge to be AZ feet wide. Tho ore stope
extends along the lateral drift to the west
distance OF fifty feet to another crosstut
| to the north, and shows the ledge to be
| twenty four feet wide The crescent is not