The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1896-10-24

man Oh the north is the
Joanna NINE,
Whose rich ore attracted 80 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 feet of tunnels, drifts and open
ings were made. The ledge was stripped
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 a tunnel sixty feet in length, at
which point a cave was encountered and
the ore vein was also reached. From this
point an incline forty-fve feet in depth
! was sunk. At the bottom of the incline
| drift was driven one hundred and twenty
Ave feet to the east, and also another thir-
| ty-five 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. great many
tons of ore were milled from this portion
|
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 q 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
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
| figures are on record in the office of the
| assessor of White Pine county" Some dis
lance further to the west there is a tunnel
| one hundred and fifty feet in length 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 $4.15 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 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
it was known that it was a mine of unusual
merit, litigation 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 a number of
mining men visited the Joanna at various
TINA aud do NJ nf thh
erty. 1t is generally believed that the
property met their expectations and was
satisfactory; but the law fuits stood in the
way until all.wcre tired ont. Had il not
been for this unfortunate affair ii would
no doubt, be one OF the large producers Of
the day, and the district of Robinson
would be in quige different condition.
M ahs 0f HIM. mn2 d is nsne ne ga4es and
jackson. These gentlemen own number
OF mines in the district.
Joanna no. 2,
The property of Messrs ostergard, House.
Lawson, Hip and others, adioins the Jo-
ana on the west. There has been consid-
cradle work done, but not sufficient 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 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, NdjOinin g the Aultman mine on
| the west and the Joana No 2 ON the south
The groups composed of five mines, which
| are the Chairman chairman Gore, TurkeyV
| Southern Cross-all adjacent to other. The
| development work upon the group is most
| ly done upon the Chairman and chairman
through large tunnel which taps the
| ledge at point 500 feet from the mouth of
| tho tunnel, and 125 from the surface. At
| the point of intersection made b? the tun-
| mel and ledge lateral drift has been run
to the west distance of 500 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 distance ofsixty feet to west in the
| DRIFT a 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
| stope to the south where some ore has been
extracted and reduced at the Chairman
| mill, which averaged $11 per tom There is
an opening to the surface a distance of
something more than 100 feet through the
| rsot OF the Slope, which is in ore all the
way. On the opposite side of the drift
| there is a crosscut to the north. The dis
lance taken from the back of the stcpe
and to the end of the crosscut shows the
ledge to be - feet 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 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 feet
The crosscut to the south has not extended
entirely across the ledge The average