The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1895-10-26


Whose rich ore 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 end Of the mine
for 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 rs the cave, is reached
| through tunnel sixty feet in length, at
which point O. cave was encountered and
the ore vein was also reached From this
point an incline forty-hve feet In depth
was sunk. At the bottom OF the incline
drift was driven one hundred ana twenty
five feet to the east, and also another thir-
tv-fiye feet to the north Several cross, uts
were made at different places, all OF witch
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. A great many
tons of ore were milled from this portion
of the mine with fair results. From
statmont of facts regarding the Joanna
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 OF Ely,
about three miles from the mine The mill
| is poorly constructed and the only appli-
| ances for saving gold We're copper plates
Less than one-half the gold was saved by
| this mode of working, as was shown by
| constant ASSAYS of the tail1Dps. ApprOX1-
| 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 texation
| This would give, adding the gold lost in
| the tailings, an average OF fourteen dollars
| 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
assessor 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 le0ge matter. Some time
| ago this tunnel was sampled in sections by
| an experienced sampler the ayerage of the
! different samples taken giving s4.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
sand tons OF the average value OF Si200 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, 1t
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! me property OF IeSsrs. Lyons MCGi4,
| McOmie and Uuderhill, is situate on Aud
! man hill, adjoining the Aultman mine on
the west and the Joanna No. on the south
| Inc group is composed OF five miues which
are the Chairman Chairman Gore Turkey Y
| Southern Cross--all adjaeentto other. The
! development Work upon the group il most
| ~ done upon the Chairman and Chairman
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