The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1896-04-18

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Whose rich ore attracted so mi at
tention about til 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 ertd 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 a tunnel sixty feet in length, at
which point a cave was encountered and
! the ore vein was also reached. From this
point an incline forty-five feet in depth
| was sunk. At the bottom OF the lncl1ue u
| drift was driven one hundred and twenty
| five feet to the east, and also another thir-
ty-ive feet to the north. Several cross uts
were made at different places, all of which
! are in ore of good grade. TO the west OF
| the work in the cave are other extensive
works, in which n large amount of drifting
! and sinking has been done and quantity
of good ore was exposed; great many
of the mine with fair results. From
Btatment of facts regarding the Joanna
mine, prepared by the Hon. Thos. Wren of
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is made "The ore was reduced at small
ten stamp water mill at the town OF Ely,
! about three miles from the mine. The mill
| is poorly constructed and the only appll-
| 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 ta1l1ngs 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 the purpose OF tsX&tlon.
! This would give, adding the gold LOST in
! the tailings, an 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
assesso" of White Pine county" Some dis
! lance further to the west there is tunnel
one hundred and ffty feet III length that
cross-cuts the ledge. The whole length of
| the tunnel is in ledge matter. Some time
| ago this tunnel was sampled i'll sections by
an experienced sampler, the average OF the
/ different samples taken giving S4.l5 IN pold.
| There have been various estimates OF the
amount of GRE in sight 1t would be din
! 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 2o0 per
ton. The gold is free bnt, the clay and
! oxide of iron require more than the 0rdl-
nary plate tfocess for saving the gold
| The Joana mine has been unfortunate, 1t
has suffered as many min nave before 1t.
il was known that il was a mine OF unusual
merit litigatio began which ran through
! the courts for term of several years at
great expense and annoyance TO the owner.
The property was tied up and could not DO
united until the Judgment Of the court vas
had During this litigation u lumber OF
! mining men visited the Joanna at various
I times and made examinations 0. the prop
, erty 1t is generally believed that the
property met their expectations and was
satisfactory: but the law suits stood in thu
way until all We're tired ou:.. lad l. ne
! been for this nnfortuna5e affair i. Tcu 6
no doubt, he one % the large producer -
the day. and tina district % Robinson
would be in quite a diferen. ccndiioii.
| The Joana mine Is now the rrore-;J o.
Messrs. Hip, Wren: Cheney, sa..-er and
jackson. These gentlemen own number
o. mines iii tho district.
Joanna NO. .,
The property of Messrs. O,te~gard, House.
j Lawson, Hip and others, aojoins the 10
! ana on the west. There has been cOnsid-
! cradle work done, hut not sutlicient to
! develop the value Of the claim. In the
deepest working they have some good ore,
the same as the Joana in character. Out
/ of n number of tons milled from this prop
! erty 81 per ton in gold was saved.
CHAINMAN GROUP
Tho property of Mersrs. Lyons McGill,
McOmie and Urderhili, is situate. on Ault-
man hill, aG Join ;ip the Autman mine on
the west and the JCana Ne. ON the south
The groupis comfosed of five mines, which
are the Chairman C1ainman Gore. Turkey Y
Southern Cross-all 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 at a 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 q distance of 500 feet; also,
i lateral drift has beep run to the east rs feet
| to a Wine which extends down to 81 second
or lower level of the mine, distance Of
100 feet below the tnnnel first level.
! Thus 1t will be seen the total depth at this
point is DIT feet Going back to point
where the lateral drift vest leaves the
tunnel a distance of sixty 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 some ore has been
extracted and reduced at the Chairman
mill, which averaged $11 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 crosscut to the north. The dis
lance taken from the back of the ST. pc
and to the end of the croSscut shows the
extends along the lateral drift to the west,
! distance of fifty feet to another crossCut
, to the north, and shows the ledge to be
twentyfour feet wide. The crosscut is not
entirely across the ledge. An average gives
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 distance of eighty feet
The crosscut to the south has not extended
entirely across the ledge The average
! value of the north crosscut is Sis Dor tor