The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1895-03-09

LAW anu a. fOltlA&lk viz $500
man on the north is the
Jo4Nk AINs,
Whose rich ore attracsad so much at
tention about three yaaas ago. It is
separated from tho .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 TIE mine about fifteen
hundred feet of tunnels, drifts and open,
| ings were made The ledge was stripped
and exposed on the west end of the mine
for distance of three hul feet when
showed the ledge 10 be very targe. one OF
iale principal onetings, the one leading to
what is known Is the cave, is reached
| through tunnel siXty feet n length, at
which point q c18e was eueountered ana
the ore weir ,as also reached. from ms
point an incline forty-tve feet IN depth
,4tssnnk. All the bottom OF the incline
/ drift was driven one hundred and twenty
five feet to the east and also another thlr-
! ty-five feet to the north. Several cross-cuts
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. CREST many
| tons of ore were miled 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 a small
ten stamp water mill at the town or 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 ons-half the gold was saved by
| this mode of working as was shown by
constant assays of the tall1nPs. APPROX
mately seven dollars ton was saved by
| this process, as shown by the returns bv
| Watson under oath to the assessor 81 White
Pine county, for the purpose OF tSXatlon.
This would give, adding the gold lost in
the tailings, an average Of fourteen dollars
| a ton in 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
| assesso~ of White Pine county" Some dis
lance further to the west there is a 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
an experienced sampler, the average of the
different samples taken giving @i.l5 in Poid.
There have been various estimates OF the
| amount of ore in SIGHT. 1t would be diff
cult indeed for all estimates TO be made
with any degree OF accuracy. Some, how
ever, have sho.sn more than fifteen thou
sand tons of the ayerApc yalue of $3.50 per
ton. The gold is free bnt the clay and
oxide of iron require more than the Ordi-
nary plate process for saving the gold.
The Joanna mine has been unfortunate, it
has suffered rs many min hove before it.
When the first great strike vas made, and
il was known thjtt it was Il mine OF unusual
merit, litipatio BEGAN which ran through
the courts Tor 9 term of several years at
great expense and annoyance 10 the owner
Ibe property WAS tied up and could not be
united until the Judgment OF the court was
had. Durinp this litigation number OF
mining men visited the Joanna ut 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 tha
way until all were tired out Had it not
been for this unfortunate affair it would,
40 doubt, be one OF the large producers OF
The day, and the district o. Robinson
would be in quite different condition.
The Joana mine is now the property OF
Messrs, Hin, Wren, Cheney, Sadler and
Jackson. These gentlemen own number
OF mines in the district.
Joanna NO .,
The property OF Messrs Ostargard, House.
Lawson, Hip and others, adioins the DO
ana on the west There has been consid-
cradle work done, hut not sufficient to
develop the yalHe OF the claim. In the
deepest working they have some good ore
the same as the Joana in character out
of number of tons milled from this prop
erty 81 per ton in gold was saved
CHAIRMAN GROUP,
The property of Mcssrs. Lyons, McGill
McOmie and Underhill, is sitlate1 on Ault-
man hill, adjoining the AulomAn mine on
the west and the Joanna No. 2 on the so.lth
The group is composed of five mines, which
are the Chairman Chainman Gore. Turkey Y
Southern Cross-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 at d point 800 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 $50 feet; also, d
lateral drift has beep run to the east 70 feet
to Wine which extends down to second
or lower level of the mine, a distance of
loo 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 Nest leaves the
tunnel u 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 be thirty feet wide. Forty feet further
to the west in the lateral drift, there is q
stope to the south where some ore has been
extracted and reduced at the Chairman
ihiii' WI .Nii I" Nei tSou Pll pei WI. mere IL
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 a crosscut to the north. The dis
lance taken from the back of the stope
and to the end of the cross mt shows the
ledge to be AZ feet wide. Tho ore stone
extends along the lateral drift to the west,
distance of fifty feet to another crosscut
to the north, and shows the ledge to be
twentyfour feet wide. The crosscut is not
entirely across the ledge. An average gives