The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1896-08-22

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Joanna MINE,
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 feat of tunnels, drifts and open
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 tunnel sixty feet in length, at
which point q cave was encountered aud
the ore vein was also reached. from TINS
point an incline forty-tive 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 th1r-
ty-fve feet to the north several cross JUS
were made at different places, all OF winch
arc in ore of good grade. TO the west OF
the work in the cave are other extensive
works, in which large amount OF drl1tlng
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
statmcnt of facts regarding the Joanna
mine, prepared by the Hon. ,Thos. Wren of
Eureka, Nevada, the following quotation
is made: 1.-The orc was reduced at small
ten stamp water mill at the town OF Ely,
about three miles from the mine: 1he mill
is poorly constructed and the only appll-
anccs 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 talllngs. 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 taXatlon
This would give, adding the golo 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
assessor of White Pine county," Some dis
lance further to the west there is tunnel
one hundred 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 81 in gold.
There have been various estimates OF the
amount of ore in sight 1t would be dltil
cult indeed for all estimates to be maze
with any degree of accuracy Some, b ow-
| 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 ordi-
| nary plate process for saving the gold.
| The Joanna mine has been Unfortunate, it
| has suffered as many mines nave before it,
| When the first great strike was made, and
| il was known that 1T was 81 mine Of unusual
merit, litigation began Which ran through
! the courts for a tern of several years at
| great expense and annoyance 10 the owner.
The property was t!el up and could not be
united until the judgment of the court was
had. During this litigation number of
mining men listed the Joanna ut various
4 times and Wade examinations oe the prop
erty. " is generally believed that the
property met their expectations and was
salts factory; but the law suits stood in the
waJ until all were tired out Had it not
been for this unfortunate afair il would
no doubt, be ono OF the large producers q
The day, ard the district OF Robinson
| would be in quire different CONDITION.
The Joana mine is now the proper CT
Messrs, iIiip, Wren. Ghene5, Sao2el and
Jecks5n.4 These gentlemen own number
o. mines in the district.
= Joanna NO. ..
TIE property of Messrs. Ostergard, House.
Lawson, Hip and others, adjoins the 10
4 ana on the west. There has been consid-
cradle work done, but not suffice 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 n number OF tons milled from this prop
erty 81 per ton in gold was saved.
CHAIRMAN GROUP,
The property OF MeSSrS. Lyons, McGill,
McOmie and Underhill is situated on Ault-
man hill, adjoining the Aultman mine on
the west and the Joana No. on the south
The group is composed of five mines, which
are the Chairman Chairman Gore, Turkey V
Southern Cross-all adjacentto other. The
development work upon the group is most
~ dotfe upon the Chairman and chairman
Gore mines. The entrance to the mine is
through large tunnel, which taps the
ledge at a point 800 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 distance of 800 feet; also, a
lateral drift has been run to the east rs feet
to Wine which extends down to second
or lower level of the mine, distance of
100 feet below the tnnnel 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 vest leaves the
tunnel a distance of sixty feet to west in til Q
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 81 per ton There is
| an opening to the surface distance OF
| something more than 100 feet through the
reof of the stope, which is in ore all the
way. On tho opposite side of the drift
lance taken from the back of the stcpe
| and to the end of TIE crosscut shows the
ledge to be AZ tset wide. The ore stope
extends along the lateral drift to the west,
distance of 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 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 A. distance of eighty feet