The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1896-04-11

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JoANA MINE,
Whose rich ore attracted so mi at
tention about tt 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 oren-
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 as the cave, Is reached
through a tunnel sixty feet in length at
which point cave was encountered aud
| the ore vein was also reached. From this
point an incline forty-five feet in depth
was sunk. At the bottom of the incliac
drift was driven one hundred and twenty
five feet to the cast, and also another thir-
| ty-five feet TO the north. Several eros. TITS
were made at different places, all Of v ich
are in ore OF good grade. To the west OF
| the work in the cave are other extensive
works, in which d large amount Of drifting
| and sinking has been done and quantity
of good ore was exposed. great many
tons of ore were n1iiled from this portion
of the mine with fair results. From
Htatmcnt OF facts reyafulnF the JoahA
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 rom the mine. The null
is poorly constructed and the only appli-
auces Tor saving gold were copper plates.
Less than one-half the geld was saved b.
this mode of working, as was shown by
constant assays of the tailings. Approx
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 tho purpose OF taxation,
This would give. adding the gold lost in
the tailings an average OF fourteen dollar.
a ton in the ore worked. The amount tak-
en- out in the aggregate was something
over fifteen thousand Gollsrs The esact
figures ara on record in the Office Of the
assesso- of White Pine county" Some dis
lance further to the west there is "a tunnel
ono hundred and fifty feet in lcngth 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 tile
different samples taken giving $4.l5 in cold.
There have been various estimates of the
amount OF one il, sight. 1t would be diff
cult indeed for all estimates to be maze
with any degree OF accuracy. Some, how
ever, have shown more than fifteen thou
sand tons of the averapc value of $3.50 per
ton. The gold is free Int the clay and
oxide of iron require more than the ordi-
nary plate process for saving the gold.
The Joana mine has been unfortunate, it
has suffered as many min have before IL.
When the first great strike was made, and
il was known that Ii was mine OF unusual
merit, litigatioii began which ran through
thu courts for term of several years at
great expense and annoyance TO the owner.
The property was tied up and could not he
united until the Judgment Of the conrt WAS
mad. During this LITIGATION number OF
mining men visited the Joana a. various
timex and made examinations OF the prop
ertx 1t is generally believed that the
property met their expectations and was
satisfactory; ban The law sui stood in the
way Entil all were tired out. Hold I. 1ct
i.een for This unfortunate affair Il would
no Doubt lie oas o. the large prolEceTs q
The day. @na TIE district 81 N~tirs31
would lie in guise a different ecndi ioE.
The Josua mine Is nov the rro?e-, Q:
Messi.. Hin, wrea. Cheac5. eaaaei alia
Jackson. These gentlemen eva number
% mines = tho district.
Joanna no. .,
The prarertv CT Messrs. nstarcard. House
Lawson, Hin and others. adluins the Jn-
ana on the west. There has been eonsid-
cradle work done, but not sufficient to
develop the value OF the claim. IN the
deepest woT king they have some good ore.
the same ax the Joaf.a in character Ont
of number of tons nille6 from this prop
erty 81 Per ton in gold was saved.
CHAIRMAN GROUP,
The property IL Messrs. Lyons, McGill.
McOmie and UndeThill, is situate on Ault-
man hill. adjoilin' the AultmAn mine on
the west and TIE Joanna No. ? on the soath
The FrcHpis cis' pnsed of five mines, which
| ATe the Chairman Chairman Gore. Turkey V
| Southern CTOss--all adjacent to other The
development work upon the group is most
| ~ done upou he Chairman and Cha.nman
Gore mines. Inc entrance to the mine is
| through : large tunnel, which taps the
| ledge al point 200 Sect from the mouth of
the tunnel, and lbs from the surface. At
the pc nj Of in tersection made by the tun-
mel aud ledge Il lateral drift has been run
to the west distance of 500 feet; also,
lateral drift has been run TO the east IS feet
| to Wine which extends down to a second
or lower level of the mine, a distance of
| 100 feet below the tnnHel 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 .gest leaves the
tunnel distance of sixty feet to west in the
drift cresscHt has been made TO the south,
and an openina 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 a
Slope to The south where some ore has been
extracted and reduced at the Chairman
mill, which averaged S11 per ton. There is
an opening to the surface a distance of
something more than 100 feet through the
roof of the stopc. which is in ore all the
way. ON the opposite side of the drift
there is erosscuf TO the north. The dis
lance taken from the back of the pc
and TO the end OF the crosscut shows the
ledge 10 he ~ feet wide. The ore stope
extends along the lateral drift to the west,
distance Of fifty feet 10 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
Is 80 s,old per ton. Fifty feet further west