The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1895-09-28

Whose rich ore attracted so much at
tention about three years ago. 1t is
separated from the Aultman by u
small porphyry dyke. The late 4.
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
| aud exposed on the west end of the mine
for a distance of three hundred feet which
showed the ledge to be very large. One of
| the principal openings, the one leading to
what is known as the cave, is reached
through Il tunnel sixty feet in length at
which point cave was encountered and
the ore vein WAS also reached. From this
point an incline forty-five 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 recording 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 mil at the town of Ely,
about three miles from the mine. The mill
is poorly coustrlfCted and the only appli-
ances for saving Sd were, copper plates.
this mode OF working. as was shown by
| constant assays of the taillrPs. Approx
| mately seven dollars ton was saved by
| this process, as shown by the returns by
Vafc ~ AAr 10 10 O Of ta
| Pine county for the purpose o. taxation.
| This would give, ADDING the gold lost in
| the talllngS, an average OF fourteen dollars
| a ton in the ore worked. The amount TAX
en- out il 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 fur her 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 expert anced 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
cult indeed for all estimates to be made
with any degree OF accuracy. Some, how
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 ordi
nary plate process for saving the cold.
The Joana mine has been unfortunate, it
| has suffered as many min have before it.
| " hen the first great strike was made, ana
! il was known that il was mine of unusual
mart, litigatio.i began which ran throu@h
thu courts for term Of several years at
| great eXTPnSe ana annoyance 20 the own
Ii e prop arty was tied UP aud could not 3a
/ united until the j"GFmeut Of The court Wa
had. During this litigation / number oi
! mining mea visited the J0AnA at various
! tines and made examinations o: the prop
! n,.rv IT is generally heliNN I'd that til