The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1895-05-25

man on the north is the
5oANA NINE,
Whose rich ere attracted SO much at
tention about three years ago. 1t is
separated from the 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 the mine about fifteen
hundred feet of tunnels, drifts and open
ings were made. The ledge was stripped
and exposed on the west et,d OF the mine
for distance of three hundred feet which
showed the ledge to be very large. Oue OF
the principal openings, tae one leading 10
what is known as the cave, is reached
through Ia tunnel sixty feet in length, at
which point cave was encountered and
the ore vein was also reached. From this
point an incline forty-iive 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-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. great many
tons Of ore were milled from this portion
of the mine with fair results. From
statment of facts regsrdinP the Joanna
mine, prepared by the Hon. ThoS. Wren OF
Eureka, Nevada, the folio wing quotation
is made: "The 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-
slnres for saving gold were copper plates.
Less than one-half the gold was saved by
this mode OF working, as was SHOWN by
ut. e ha tui1
matelY seven dollars a 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 taxation.
This would give, adding the gold lost III
the taiiingS an average of fourteen dollars
a ton in the ore worked. The amount TAX
8n ont in the aggregate was something
over hfteen thousand dollars. The exact
tigur es are on record in the office OF the
assesso~ OF White Pine county" Some dis
lance further to the West there is g 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 III sections by
an experienced sampler, the ayeraFe OF the
different samples taken giving $4.l5 IN gold
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 shown more than fifteen thou
sanG tons rf the average value Of $i25O per
ton. me PO1u is Tree ont the cay hlO
oxide OF iron require more than the ordi-
nary plate process for saving the gold.
The Joanna mine has been unfortunate it
has suffered as many min have before 1t.
When The first great strike WAS mace, and
t. Wa known teat it ~aS mine OF UNUSUAL
nlcrit. iitigAtiOa began Wuir2 ron through
ia courts for Q tenn of several ye1rs ut
rrcgt expense anG anaoyGnc 10 IN owner
The property Wa tied mp and could not DC
united uiitjl the Judgment o. the coGft vas
ha9 Daring thig LITIGATION a number Of
minnp raet visited the Joanna 1T ra.riGos
tines rH1 made examinations Q! the prog
erty. II - ger crafty believed taat thn
property ret 1hojc expectations and WIS
~. isfacto1y: h0t the law s}i stood in th
way untd 81 were tired orr. lad il ncs
eeu ior this unfortunate affair Il Wpn!G.
no doubt, IT, Que OF the large rrodne rs Of
l. . day, Aud the district of Robinson
vopld ia in quite di f4reut condition.
The Joala mine is Row the property o.
Mtssre, Hip, Wren, GLeHe% -at;ler aud
Jn"<eon Ihase g>atlelh>t oTil d number
o. mines ia the district.
JoAEA no. 2,
Tn, proportv OF Messrs. OstArqnra, Tousn
I.4WspH, iiilp aad others, uGiciu, he 10
aoa on the West There has been conBid-
crahle work done, hut not sufficient to
GeVciub the value Of the claim. IN the
dc, pest working they have some good ore
the same as the Joanna in character Qua
OF number of tons milled from this prop
CHAIRMAN GROUP,
The property of Messrs Lyons, McGiu,
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 1875 from the surface. AT
the point Of intersection made by the tun-
mel and ledge lateral drift has been run
to the west u distance of 500 feet: also, n
lateral drift has been run to the east 10 feet
to q Wine which extends down to second
or lower level Of the mine, distance of
100 feet below the tnnuel or first level.
Thus it will be seen the total depth at this
point is 227 feet. Going back to point
where the lateral drift HeSt leaves the
tunnel a distance of sixty feet to west in tbs
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 $1l per ton. There is
an opening to the surface 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 Slope
and to the end of the croSsaut shows the
ledge to be 40 feet wide The ore stope
extends along the lateral drift to the west
Il 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