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

man on the north is the
JOANA MINE,
Whose rich ore attracted so mi ] at
tention about tt 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 eud of the mine
! for distance of three hundred feet which
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 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 q
! drift was driven one hundred and twenty
| five feet to the east, and also another thr-
| ty-1ve feet to the north. Several cross uts
were made at different places, all Of wnich
are in ore Of good grade. To the west of
the work in the cave are other extensive
works, in which a large amount OF drifting
| and sinking has been done and a Quantity
of good ore was exposed. a great many
tons of ore were milled from this portion
of the mine with fair results From d
| etatmcnt of facts regarding the Joana
| mine, prepared by the Hon. Thos. Wren of
Eureka, Nevada, the following quotation
| is made "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 vera 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
l Ill 4rNr, x-,,1 lt.,
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, addinP the gole lest in
| the tailings, an average OF fourteen dollars
| q ton in the ore worked. The amcunt 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 a 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 AVERAGE of the
different samples taken giving SAL 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
nary plate process for saving the gold.
The Joanna mine has bean unfortunate, it
has uffered as many min nave before 1t.
| When the first great strike was made, and
| it Was known that it was mine OF unusual
merit, litieatio', began which ran through
| tho courts for term of several yeats ut
great expense and annoyance to the owner.
The property was tied up and could not be
united until the judrmeut of the court was
had Durii2p this LITIGATION Il number of
| mining men visited the Joanna at various
times and made examinations o. the prop
erty 1t is generally believed that the
pr0perty met their expectations and was
satisfactory: but the law sui.s stood in the
way until all were tired ont Had i. pC'
| been for this unsorsanatc affair i ~ou}o
no doubt, be olie, o the i&ree pro3iic"1F ..
would 10 in quite oiffcren. ccnii i2.-.
Tho Jo,ua mi2o Is nov the fGope~ = q
Messrs, Hin, Wren. Cheney. Sat Ter A.l1
jackson. These gentlemen own :. n4mber
o. mines in he district
Joanna NO. ,,
The property of MessrS. O.tergard, House.
! Lawson, Hip and others. adioins the 10
| ana on the west. There has been copsid-
cradle work done, but not sufficient to
! develop the valve OF the claim In the
deepest working they have some good ore,
the same as the Jcana 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 Upderhill, is situate On Ault-
! man hill, adioininr the Aultman mine on
| the west and the Joanna No. . on the south
| The group is composed of five mines, which
| are the Oh kinman Chairman Gore Turkey
| Southern Cr0ss-all adjacent to other. The
! development work upon the group is most
! ly done upon the Chairman and Chainman
! Gore mines. The entrance to the mine is
! through large tunnel, which taps the
! ledge at q point 500 FEET from the mouth of
the tunnel, and 125 from the surface. AT
| the point OF intersection made by the tlln-
mel aud 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 Wine which extends down to a 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 feet. Going back to a point
| where the lateral drift vest leaves the
| tunnel 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 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 Chainman
mill, which averaged $11 per ton. There is
an opening to the surface u distance of
something more than 100 feet through the
| rO)f 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
| lance taken from the back of the st"p pc
| and to the end of the crosscut shows the
! ledge to be ~ feet wide. Tho ore Slope
extends along the lateral drift to the west,
q distance Of fifty feet to another crossCut
to the north, and shows the ledge to be
| twenty-four feetrwide. The crosscut is not
entirely across the ledge. An average gives
S. so gold per ton. Fifty feet further west
in the lateral drift another another cross
| cut is made to the north twenty eight feet: