The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1896-01-11

J0ANA MINE,
/ w nose rich ore attracted So much at
! tontlon ABOUT three years ago. Ii Is
separated from the AulJ4nan by u
small porphyry dyke. 1he late A.
Il. Watson was the original locator,
and through his energy tile mine was
opened and developed. While MIR.
Watson operated the mine about fifteen
| hundred teet ot tunnels, drifts and open-
.lnga mufe made. Inc ledge was stripped
anu eX posed on the west cid OF the Ai.lc
| Tor Z, u4staiUe OF tnrce hundred feeL which
showed elie ledge To De very large. one OF
/ the prIlNl pal openings, the one leaulns 70
| WHAT is Known as the cave, Is reaDned
! Though u tunnel sixty feet IN length, at
| Nniln polnC u cave Was encountered anu
| The ore VEN Was also Reached FROM TINS
! point un incline lorCy ieet IN deptn
! was sunk. Al tne DotIom oI Tie lnellne u
! drlIt Was driven one hundred ana twenty
| five feet to the east and also anotner thlr-
ty-nVe feet TO The north. Several cross, Jus
| were nlaue at u1nereat places, all OF Which
| are in ore OF good sraac. 10 the west OF
| the work in Vie cave uIe oGhef exclusive
| works, III which u large amount OF drifting
ana 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 a
statment of facts recording the Joana
mine, prepared by the Hon. Thos. Wren of
| Eureka, Nevada, the folio wing quotation
is made: 1.-THE ore was reduced at 81 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 cold were copper plates.
Less than one-half the gold was saved by
this mode OF working, as was shown by
constant assays of the tailinPs. ApproXi-
matcly seven dollars a ton was saved by
~ 4, ~ ~
Watson under oath 10 the assessor of White
Pine county, for the purpose OF taxation.
| This would give, adding the gold lost IN
| the tailings &n average OF fourteen dollars
a 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
tauce further to the west there is \ tunnel
| one hundred and fifty feet in lengIh that
| crOss-cuts the ledge The whole length Of
! the tunnel is in ledge matter. Some time
! ago this tunnel was samples in sections by
/ an experienced sampler, the aYeTape OF the
| different samples taken givinp $i.l5 in pold.
| There have been various estimates Oh the
| amount of ore in SIGHT. 1t would he Diff
| cult indeed for all estimates to he made
| with any degree OF accuracy. Some, how
| ever have shown more than fifteen thou
| 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 ordl-
1
| The Joana mine has been unfortunate, 1t
has suffered as many min s have before it.
! When the first great strike WAS mace, ana
| ii was known that II was mine OF unusual
| merit, litipatio began which ran through
| the courts for q term of several years at
| great expense and annoyance to the owner.
Tie property WAS tied up and could not be
united until the Judgment Of the court was
| had. During this litigation number OF
| mining men visited the 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 sui Is stood in tht
way until all were tiEed cut. Had II Coz
been for this unfor yunaae affair it wouid
| no doubt, be one o. TIE large producers o.
the day, and the district of Robinson
would be in quite 4 Gillersl- eclli.io...
The JoAna mine : nov the Yropec;T o!
| Messrs Hip, Wren. Chensy, Sluief ana
Jackson. These c@n4emen Own number
of mines in the district.
JoANA NO. .,
The property of Messrs Ostergard, House.
| Lawson Hip and others, adj0ins the DO
| ana on the west There has been conSid-
cr ri Is' work done. Int not suiicient to
| develop the value OF the claim. In the
| deepest working they have some good ore,
the same avs the Joaua in character. Out
| OF a number Of tons lnilled from this prop
erty 81 per ton in gold was saved.
CHAIRMAN GROUP,
The property of Messrs Lyons, McGill,
| McOmie and Upderhill, is situate 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 Y
| Southern Cross-ali adjacent to other The
| development work up n the group i most
| ly done upon the Chairman and Chainman
Gore mines. The entrance to the mine is
through I large tunnel which taps the
ledge al point 800 feet from the mouth of
?. 1Rn1 11E
the point of intersection made by the TIM
mel and ledge II lateral drift has been run
to the west q distance OF 800 feel also. q
lateral drift has beeD run to the cast - feet
! to a Wine which extends down to second
or lower level If the mine, "a distance of
100 feet below the tnnuel or first level
Thus it will be seen che total depth AT this
point IL 227 feet Going back to q point
| where the lateral DRIFT vest leaves the
tunnel a distance ofsixty feet TO west IN the
drift erosscut has been made to the south,
ana an openlnS 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
stope to the south where some ore has been
extracted and reduced at the Chairman
mill, which averaged $l1 per ton. There is
an opening to the surface q 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 stepe
ana to the end of the croassut shows the
ledge to be y feet wide The ore store
extends along the lateral drift to the west,
| Il distance OF fifty feet to another crosSGut
to the north, and shows the ledge TO be
twentyfour feet wide. The crosscut is pot
entirely across the ledge. An average giYes
Sc so gold per ton. Fifty feet further west
in the lateral drift another another cross
cut is made to the north twenty eight feet:
also to the south 81 distance of eighty feet
| The crosscut TO the south has not extended
| ontipp1u