The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1896-07-11

! Joanna MINE,
! Whose rich ore attracted SO mi ! at
tention about t. zee years ago is
separated from the Aultlnan 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 et.d 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 IL known as the cave, is reached
through q tunnel sixty feet in length, vt
! which point cave was encountered ara
| the ore vein was Glso reached From his
! point au incline fOrty-iye feet il dcoth
| was sunk. 1T the bottom of the incline Il
! drift was driven one hundred and twenty
| five feet to the east, and also another thir-
ty-fve feet to h norm Several eros. nts
We're made at different places, all Of VI ieh
are in ore of good gfae'. 70 The west OF
the work in the cave ale other extensive
works, in GalCI y large amount Of drifting
and sinking has been Gune and q quantity
Of good ore was exposed. \ great many
tons of ore were milled from this portion
of the mine with fair results From q
statmcnt OF facts regarding the Joanna
mine, PR pared BY the Hon. fhos. Wren of
Eureka, Nevada, the folio ling quotation
is made: 1.-THE orc was reduced at a small
ten stamp water mil at the town of Ely,
about three miles from the mine. The mill
is poorly constructed and the only appi-
ances tor saving gold wera 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 a ton was saved by
this process, as shown by the returns bv
Watson under oath 10 the assessor OF White
Pine county, for he purpose o! t>xAtion.
This would give adding the goid ia i 4
the tailings, an average of fourteen dollars
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 thu
assessor of White Pine county" Some dis
lance further to the west there is Il tunnel
one hundred and fifty feet IN lengtli 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. 10 in gold.
There have been various estimates of the
amount of ore in sight. 1t would be diff
cult indeed for ell estimates to be made
with any degree of accuracy. Some, how
ever, have shO,Tn 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 Pold
The Joaua mine has been unfortunate, it
When the first GreGt strike was made, and
il was known that it was mine of unusual
merit, litiratiOi begrun which ran through
the courts for term OF several years at
'reat expense and e"toyancc 20 the owner
. he property was tic. IL, faU could not be
united Until the iudarll'al, If the court WAS
had. DURING this litigation u number of
mininp men visited the JC ia at various
erty. 1t is generally believed that the
property met their cxpec!ations and was
satsfacto:y; but the law s::i.s stood in the
way until all We're tired oH.. Had rot
been for this unfortunate affair i: u,d
no doubt lie Oue o. the la re DrodilCsrs Gf
the day. and tie District OF iIol ;ns0u
would he in quite diiferen- co.dS in.
The Joana mine is now :,i. rr,pt-;, OF
Messrs, Hin Wren, Cheney, 6auie1 and
jackson. Thes" gentlemen ow!! a number
| o. mines in the district
Joanna No. ?,
The property of Mcsrrs Ostergard, House
Lawson, Hip and others. ud;oins the 10
ans on t"e west There has been co1sid-
erabl- work done, but not sufficient to
develop the value Of the ell in. IN the
deerest working they have some good ore,
| the same as the Joana in character. ont
of number of tons milled from this prop
| erty 81 per ten in gold was saved.
CHAIRMAN CIRCUIT,
The property of Messrs Lyons McGill.
McOmie and Underhill, is situate 4 on Ault-
man hill, ADJOINING the Aultman mine on
| the west ana the Joanna No. on the south
| The groupiS composed of five mines, which
| are the Chpinman Chairman Gore. Turkey
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 Il lateral drift has been run
to the west distance of 800 feet; also, a
lateral drift has been run to the east Is feet
to Wine which extends down to q second
or lower level Of the mine, a distance OF
loo feet below the tnnnel or first level
Thus it will be seen The total depth at this
point is 227 seet Going back to point
where the lateral drift Nest leaves the
tunnel a distance Of sixty feet to west in the
drift crosscut las been made to the south,
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 Ch9iDman
mill, which averaged III per tor. There il
an opening to the surface 81 distance Of
something more than 100 feet through the
roof OF the stopc, which is in ore all the
way. On the opposite side of the drift
there is Il crosscut to the north The dis
lance taken from the back Of the st" pc
and to the end Of the crossaut shows the
ledge to be d. AFt wide. Tho ore stope
extends nloug the lateral DRIFT to the est,
n distance Of fifty Feet to another crosscut
to the north, and shows the ledge 10 be
tWentY-four feet vide. The crosFCut is not
entirely across the ledge. An average gives
S6 80 gold per ton. Fifty feet further west
in the lateral drift another another cross
cut is made 20 the north twenty -eignt feSt
also to the south distance of eighty feet.
/ II - I,a h I.r l,1