The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1896-09-26

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Joanna MINE,
/ Whose rich ore attracted SO mi 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 feat of tunnels, drifts and open
! inga were made. The ledge was stripped
! and exposed on the west end of TIL. mine
! for q 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 4 tunnel sixty feet in length, at
! which point cave was encountered and
the ore vein WAS also reached. From this
| point an incline forty-ive 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 thir-
! ty-fve feet to the north. Several CROSSE 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 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
statment 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 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 bv
! Watson under oath to the assessor of White
| Pine county, for the purpose OF taxation
! This would give, adding the gold lost in
! the tailings, an average of fourteen dollars
q 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 $4.15 in gold
| There have been various estimates Of the
| amount OF ore III sight. 1t would be diff
! 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 $3.50 per
| ton. The gold is free but 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 SUI fered as many min have before it.
When the first great strike was made, and
| il was known that it was mine OF unusual
| merit litigatio began which ran through
! the courts for term of several yeats at
great expense and annoyance 10 the owner
! The property was tied up and could not be
! united until the Judgment of the court was
| had During this litigation Il number OF
mining men visited the Joana at various
tiElls and made examinations o. the prop
orty. 1t is generally believed that the
f,fnfiT -,,J
sati factory; but 'so law sViLs stood N the
way Until all were tired oUt. Had 4. NOT
beeu for his un'ursuna5c afair il: would
no doubt, be one o the large PRODUCERS q
| he dry, and the district OF Robinson
would he in quiS . different condition.
The Joaua mine Is now the proper. o.
hIessrs, Iiill. Wren. Nheney, Sadie1 ano
Jackson. These gentlemen own number
o. mines in the district.
Joanna NO. 2,
The property Of Messrs. ostergard, House.
| Lawson, Hip and others. adiQins the Jo-
ana or the west. There has been consd-
erable work doue, but not sufficient to
| develop the value of the claim. In the
| deepest working they have some good ore,
the same IS the Joanna in character. Out
OF number Of tons milled from this prop
crty 81 per ton in gold was saved.
CHAIRMAN GROUP,
The property of Messrs. Lyons, McGill,
!
man hill, adjoining the Aultman mine on
the west aud the Joanna No. on the south
| The PrOup is composed of five mines, which
| are the chairman Chairman Gore. Turkey
| Southern Cross--all adjacent to other. The
| development work upon the group is most
| " done upon the Chairman and chairman
Gore mines. The entrance to the mine is
| through Y 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 a lateral drift has been run
| to the west distance Of 500 feet; also, q
| lateral drift has beep run to the east 70 feet
to a Wine which extends down to a second
| or lower level OF the mine, distance of
100 feet below the tnnnel or first level.
! Thus 1T Will be seen the total depth at this
point is 221 Feet. Going back to a point
where. the lateral drift vest leaves the
tunnel 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 a
stopc 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 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 3 croSScut to the north The dis
lance taken from the back of the st@pe
and to the end of tbs crosscut shows the
ledge to be DE- feet wide. The ore stope
extends along the lateral drift to the west,
a 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 50 gold per ton. Fifty feet further west
III the lateral drift another another cross
cut is made to the north twenty eight feet:
also to the south 8 distance of eighty feet
| The crosscut to the south has not extended
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