The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1896-03-28

man on tho north is the
Joanna NINE,
Whose rich ore attracted so mi at
tention about tx zee years ago. is
separated from the Aultman a
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 u 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 q tunnel sixty feet in length, at
which point cave was encountered and
the ore vein was also reached From this
point an incline forty-tiye 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-tiYe feet to the north. Several eros u IS
were made at different places, all Of watch
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
statment of facts regarding the Joanna
NINE prepared by the Hon. Thos. Wren of
Eureka, Nevada, the following quotation
is made 1.-THE orc was reduced at o 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 tor saving gold were copper plates.
Less than one-half the gold was saved by
this mode of working, as was shown by
constant assays of the talllngs. Approx
,i,I1 ton .l,1 ~
this process, rs shown by the returns bv
Watson under oath % TIE assessor OF White
Pine county, fCs h purpose a. legation
This would give, ADDING the sold lost ii
the tailingS, an average Of fourteen ftoiiAts
q ton in the ore worked. The amount TAX
en- out in the aggregate WAS SO Hathing
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 tunnel
one hunGred 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 $4 10 in rold
There have been various estimates OF the
amount of ore III 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 $500 per
ton The gold is free bnt the clay and
OXIDE OF IRON req ulfc IlOIO CHuu INC oIui-
nary plate process for saving the gold.
The Joanna mine has been unfortunate, ii
has suffered as many min nave before 1t.
When the first great strike was made, and
il was known THAT it was a mine OF unusual
merit, litipatiO began which ran through
tho courts for . term Of several years ut
great expense and annoyance 10 the owner.
The property was tied up and could not be
united until the Judgment of the court Vas
had, During this litigation number Of
mining men visited rhe 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 uptl all ware tired 0ut, I:&d II net
been for this unfortunaa affair il Wcu &
no DOUBT, be one OF the large producers =
the day, and the district OF Robinson
would 10 in quite different condition.
The Joanna Miao IS nGW the proneE;f CT
Messrs, Hip, Wren: Cheney, Sac!e- and
Jackson. These gentlemen own number
OF mines in tho district.
JoANA no. 2,
The property of Messrs. Ostergard House
Lawson, Hip and others, djoins the .Jo-
cradle work done, but not sufficient to
develop the value of the claim. In the
deepest working they have some good ore,
the same az the Joana in character Out
of q number of tons milled from this prop
erty "a per ton in gold was saved.
CHAIRMAN GROUP,
The property of Messrs Lyons, McGill,
McOmie and Underhill, is situated on Ault-
man hill, Ddjoininp the Aultman mine on
the west aud the Joanna No. 2 on the sorth
The group is composed of five mines which
are the Chairman Chairman Gore, Turkey
Southern Cross-all adjacentt 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 q 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 a distance of 500 feet; also, d
lateral drift has been run to the east rs feet
to Wine which extends down to second
or lower level of the mine, q distance of
100 feet below the tnnnel or first level.
Thus it will be seen the total depth at this
point is OPT feet. Going back to a point
where the lateral drift Sest leaves the
tunnel a distance ofsXty 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 someone has been
extracted and reduced at the Chairman
mill, which averaged S11 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 crosseut to the north. The dis
lance taken from the back of the St pc
and to the end of the cross2ut shows the
ledge to be AZ feet wide. Tho ore Slope
extends alorg the lateral driftto the west,
a distance OF fifty feet to another crosse ut
to the north, and shows the ledge to be
twenty-four feet wide. The crosscut is not
entirely across the ledge. An average gives
Sc so gold per ton. Fifty feet further west
inf la of flItf l,np l.n;,