The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1896-06-13

| y uSC D0lOW ana AUJOlnlng Cno AulI-
man on the north Is the
Joanna NINE,
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 feet 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 q tunnel sixty feet in length, at
which points cave was encountered and
| the ore vein was also reached From this
point an incline forty-fiye 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-five feet to the north. Several cross nts
were made at different places, all of which
are in ore of good grade. TO the west of
the work in the cave arc other extensive
works, in which large amount of drifting
Maud sinking has been done and a quantity
of good ore was exposed, great many
tons OF ore were mllleQ from UnlS portion
Of the mine with fair results. From a
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 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 taxation.
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
assessor of White Pine county" Some dis
lance further to the west there is tunnel
one hundred and fifty feet in y length ct that
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. is 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 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 Joana mine has been unfortunate, it
has suffered as many Minis have before it.
When the first great strike was made, and
il was known Il, at it was mine of unusual
merit filtration 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 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 ot the prop
erty. 1t is generally believed that the
property met their expectations and was
satisfactory; but the law suits stood in tn,
way until all were tired out. Had IL not
been for this unfortunate affair it would
no doubt, he one OF the large Producers 81
the day, and the district of Robinson
would DO in quite different conditicil.
The Jo1ns mine is now 3tg the prG25ec aa q
jackson. These gentlemen own a number
o. mines in tho district.
JoANA no. 2,
The property of Messrs. oetergard House.
Lawson, Hip and others, ndjoins the Jo-
ana on the west. There has been consd-
| cradle work done, but not sufficient to
| develop the value of the claim. In, the
deepest working they have some good ore,
the same rs the Joanna in character. Out
| of a number of tons milled from this prop
crty 81 per ton in gold was saved.
CHAIRMAN GROUP,
McOmie and Underhill is situate on Ault-
man hill, adjoining the Aultman mine on
| the west aud the Joanna No. on the south
| The group is com posed of five mines, which
are the Chairman chairman Gore, Turkey V
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 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 distance of 500 feet; also,
| lateral drift has been run to the east rs feet
| to winze 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 a point
tunnel a distance ofsixty 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 the west, in the lateral drift, there is n
| stope to the south where some ore has been
extracted and reduced at the Chairman
mill, which averaged $11 per ton. There is
| something more than 100 feet through the
Ioof of the stope, which is in ore all the
way. On the opposite side of the drift
there Is a crosscut to the north. The dis
| and to the end of the crosscut shows the
| ledge to be AZ feet wide. The ore stope
extends along the lateral drift to the west,
a distance OF fifty feet to another crosscut
twenty-four feet wide. The crosscut is not
entirely across the ledge. An average gives
| IS so gold per ton. Fifty feet further west
in the lateral drift another another cross