The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1896-07-25


Joanna MINE,
Whose rich ore attracted SO M, at
tention about IT, zee years ago is
separated from the Aultman q
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 opeu-
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 II known as the cave, is reached
through tunnel sixty feet in length, at
which pointa cave was encountered and
tn ore vein was also reached. From this
point an incline forty-iive 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 eros uts
were made at different places, all of ,ich
are in ere of good grad. TO the west OF
the work i'll the cave are other extensive
works, in which large amount Of drifting
and sinking has been done and quantity
of good ore was exposed. great many
| tons of ore were nilled from this portion
of the mine with fair results. From
statment OF facts regarding the Joana
mine, prepared by the Hon. Thos. Wren of
Eureka, Nevada, the following quotation
is made: 1.-The ore was reduced at small
ton stamp water mill at the towr Of Ely,
about three miles from the mine The mill
is poorly constructed and the only appli-
ances Tor 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 tailinps. APPROX
mately seven dollars ton was saved by
this process, as shown by the returns by
i IA tNf nj "a
Pine county, for the purpose Of taxation.
This would give, adding the gold lost in
the tailings, an average OF fourteen dollars
IL ton in the ore worked. The amount tax
ell 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 ayeraPe OF the
different samples taken giving M.15 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 maGe
with any degree OF accuracy Some, how
ever, have shown more than fifteen thou
sand tons of the averaPe value of $l2.5D per
ton The pod is free bnt the clay and
oxide Of iron require more tnan the ordi-
nary plate process for saving the gold.
The Joanna mine has been unfortunate,.lt
has suffered as many min $ have before it q
When the rst great strike was made, aud
| il was known that il was IL mine OF unusual
merit, litipatio began which ran through
this courts for term of several yeats ut
great expense and annoyance 20 the owner
The property was tied up and could not be
united until the Judgment of the ruurt was
had. During this LITIGATION nsimber OF
mining men visited the Joana at various
| times and made examinations o: TIC prop
erty. 1t is generally believed thnf tn"
| AZ tl,aip "a M q.
satisfactory: but the law sai STOOD IN tn
way until all were tired oH!. Had !. NC
been for this n0fortUna4e affair i; ''cu'd
no doubt, be oneioi the l7.ec irod;c. =
the DAY, and the district of Eoi;r,so,.
would be in quite a different cC-idi To-.
The Josua mine Is nov the Er2per5'' q
Messr', lIil:. Wren: the:e,-, SAD ala
jackson. feSe gen!!r!L,!1 CWa numDcr
| O mines IN the district.
Jo4SA no 2, a.
| The property Of Mes<s.. o,terra,d. House.
! Lawson, Hip and others. adions the Jo
! ana on the west. There has been cOnSiQ-
! crabl- work done, but not sufficient to
| develop the value of the clvin. In the
| deele't king they have son'e good ore,
] the same az the Joanna in character. out
! Of n number Of tons milled from this prop
erty 81 per I, in gold was saved.
CHAIRMAN GROUP
The property of Messrs Lyons McGill,
| man hill, adjoinins the Aultman mine on
| the west and the Joanna No. on the south
| The group is composed of five mines which
! are the Oh amman Chairman Gore. Turkey
| Southern Cross-all adjacent to other The
deyelOpmcn 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 tho surface. At
the point OF intersection made by the tun-
| mel and ledge II lateral drift has been run
| TO the west distance of 500 feer also, q
| lateral drift has been run to the east IS feet
| to Wine which extends down to a second
or lower level of the mine, distance of
| 100 feet below the tnnnel or first level.
Thus it will he seen the total depth at this
| point is POT feet. Going back to a 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 openin? 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 Chainman
mill, which averaged $1l per ton. There is
an opening to the surface distance Of
something m gfe than 100 feet through the
roof of the stope, which is in ore all the
way. On the opposite side Os the drift
there is crosscut 10 the north. The dis
lance taken from the back of the tcpc
and to the end of ttc crosscut shows the
ledge to be ~ ;ert wide. Tho ore Slope
extends along the lateral drift to the west,
distance OF fifty feet to another cross, ut
to the north, and shows the ledge to be
twenty-four feet wide. The crosscut is not
entirely across the ledge. An average gives
S. 90 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 f-et
hn m tt,o hoe lnt IoI