The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1896-12-12

| Whose rich ore attracted so mt ! at
tention about IT, 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 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 a tunnel sixty feet in length, at
which point cave was encountered and
the ore vein was also reached From this
| point &n incline forty-tiVe feet in depth
was sunk. AT the bottom OF the incline IA
! drift was driven one hundred and twenty
| five feet to the east, and also another thir-
! ty-five feet to the north. Several cross, utS
were made at different places. all OF wGich
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 a
| statmGnt 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 u 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 were copper plates.
Less than one-half the gold was saved by
| this mode OF working, as was shown by
! constant assays Of the tailings. Approx
| mately seven dollars a ton was saved by
| this process, as shown by the returns by
| Watson under oath to the assessor of White
| Tow fIn ~ fFNyO
| This would give, adding the goli lost in
the tailings, an average of fourteen dollars
| Il 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 q tunnel
| one hundred and fifty feet in Length tina;
! 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 s4.1 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 mora than fifteen thou
| sand tons Of the ayerace 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 Pold. =.
The Joanna mine has been unfortunate, it
| When the first great strike was made, aud
| il was known that ii was mine OF unusual
! merit, litigatio began which ran through
| the courts for term OF several years at
| great expense and annOyanc" 20 the owner.
| TIE property was tied up and could not be
united until the juGpment OF the court was
had. During this litigation Il number OF
mining men visited he Joanna at various
| times and made examinations ot the prop
erty 1t is generally believed that the
property met their expectations and was
! satisfactory; out the law sui S stood in the
way until all were died or. Had t. not
| bCCu for this unfortunate Aha;r i would
no doubt be one o. the l1rce arodTc, IS Il
he day and the district Of ErbicSJn
would lie in qui,e different ecn')i j2;-.
The JoGna mine IS nov nc ri2r&-,z =
jackson. These gentlemen own number
/ o. mines in the district.
Joanna NO. 2,
! The property Of Mcssrs Ostergard, House.
Lawson, Hip and others, adioins the Jo-
| ana on the west. There has been COusid-
cradle work done, but not sufficient to
| develop the value of the claim In the
deepest working they have some good ore,
! the same as the Joanna in character Out
| Of q number of tons millca from this prop
erty s. per ton in gold WAS saved.
CHAIRMAN GROUP,
The property Of Messrs. Lyons, McGill,
|
man Hill, adjoining the Aultman mine on
the west and the Joanna No. on the south
| The FTOupls composed OF five mines, which
! are the Chairman Chairman Gore Turkey
] Southern Cross-stl adjacent 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 al q point 500 feet from the mouth of
| the tunnel, and l25 from tho surface. At
| the point Of intersection made by the tun-
mel and ledge q lateral drift has been run
| to the west distance Of 800 feet; also, q
| lateral drift has been run to the east 70 feet
| to 81 Wine which extends down to a 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 227 teet. Going back to q point
| where the lateral drift Sest leaves the
| tunnel "A distance OF sixty feet to west in the
! drift a 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 a
stope to the south where some ore has been
extracted and reduced at the Chairman
mill, which averaged $11 per ton. There is
| an opening to the surface u 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 Il crosscut to the north. The dis
| lance taken from the back Of the st"pe
ledge to be 42 feet wide. The ore stope
extends along the lateral drift to the west,
| a distance oi fifty feet to 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
Sc 50 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 a distance of eighty feet.
/ The crosscut to the south has not extended
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