The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1896-05-16

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| Just below and adjoining the Ault-
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
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 tunnel sixty feet in length, at
which point 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
| five feet to the east, and also another thir-
| ty-five feet to the north. Several cross-Snts
| 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 a quantity
| of good ore was exposed. great many
| tons of ore were milled from this 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: "The ore was reduced at a 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
y, iC do Of a NV
constant assays of the tailings APPROX
ately seven dollars 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
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 at
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 $4l IN goid.
There have been various estimates OF the
amount of ore in sight 1t would be diff
cult indeed for all estimates to be mace
with any degree of accuracy. Some, how
ever, have shown more than fifteen thou
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 Joanna mine has been unfortunate, it
has suffered as many min 8 have before 1T.
When the first great strike was made, and
it was known that it was mine of unusual
merit, litipatiO began which ran through
tho 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 Joana at various
times and made examinations or the prop
erty. 1t is generally believed that the
property met their expectations and was
satisfactory: but the law suits stood in the
way until all were tired ont. Had Il net
no doubt, be ono OF the large producers q
the day, and the district OF Robinson
would be in quite different condi ion.
Tho Joanna mtne is now the properly OF
jackson. These gen ticnen own number
o. mines in the district.
Joanna NO. .,
The property of Messrs. Ostergard, House.
lawson Hip and others, adjoins the 10
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 az the Joanna in character. Out
of n number of tons millcd from this prop
erty 81 per ton in gold was saved.
CHAIRMAN GROUP,
The property of Mcssrs. Lyons, McGill,
McOmie and Ur6"rhill, is stuated on Ault-
| man HILL ad Joining the Aultman mine on
| the west and the Joana No. z 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
| 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 a 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 a 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
where the lateral drift Sest leaves the
| tunnel q 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
| slope to the south where some ore has been
| extracted and reduced at the Chairman
| mill, which averaged $11 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 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 AZ feet wide. Tho ore Slope
extends along the lateral drift to the west,
distance of fifty feet to another crosscut
/ twenty-four feet wide. The crosscut is not
! entirely across the ledge. An average gives