The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1896-11-14

| W llOoS IlCll OlC 81 ut
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
and exposed on the west end 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 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
| drift was driven one hundred and twenty
| five feet to the cast, and also another thir-
! ty-fve 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
aud sinking has been done and quantity
OF good ore was exposed, A great many
! tons of ore We're milled from this portion
of the mine with fair results. From n
| st0tment of facts regarding the Joanna
mine prepared by the Hon. Thos Wren of
Eureka, Nevada, the following quotation
is made: 1.-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
this mode Of working, as was shown by
! constant assays of the tallings. APPROX
mately seven dollars u ton was saved by
this process, as shown by the returns by
Watson under cath to the assessor of White
Pine county, for the purpose of taxation.
This would give, adding the gold lost i'll
toll plCr aun of a nj
Il 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
assesso~ Of White Pine county" Some dis
lance further to the west there is n tunnel
one hundred aud nifty feet in length that
cross-cuts the ledge. The whole length of
the tunnel is i'll ledge matter. Some time
ago this tnnne was sampled in sections by
an experienced sampler, the average of the
different samples taken giving 81 in cold.
There have been various estimates OF the
amount of ore in sight. 1t would be diff
cult indeed Cor all estimates to be made
with any degree of accuracy. Some, how
ever, have SHOWN more than fifteen thou
sand tons of the aVeraPe value OF 81. 80 per
ton. The gold is free bnt the clay and
oxide of iron require more than the ordi-
nary plate process for saving the pold.
The Joanna mine has been unfortunate, it
has suffered as many min have before 1t.
When the first great strike WAS made, and
! ii was known that it was a mine of unusual
merit, litigatio.. began which ran through
| the courts for @ term OF several years at
| great expense and annoyance 70 The owner.
| The properly was tied up and could not be
united until the JUDGMENT OF the court was
had During this litigation Il number Of
| mining men visited the Joana at various
times aud made examinations Of 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 tiied oNt Had i; rCt
| LppO for This TTnFCrtlInN.H Affair il would
! no doubt. be Que o. the largc producers =
the day, And the district OF Robinson
would lie in Quite different ceadj ion.
| The JoauN mine IS nov me proper. G:
MessrS, Hip, Wren. Cheney. Snd:al and
jackson Tbese gentlemen own a number
Of mines in the district.
JoANA NO =.
| The property Of MeSsrS. Cstergnrd, House.
Lawson, Hip and others, adioins tho 10
ana on the west. There has been eonsid-
erable 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 number Of tons milled from this prop
crty 81 per ton in gold was saved.
CHAIRMAN GROUP,
The property of Messrs. Lyons, McGiu,
McOmie and Upderhill is situated on Ault
man hill, adjoining the Aultman mine on
the west and the Joanna No. on the south
The group is composed of five mines, which
| are the Chairman Chainman Gore. TurkeyN
| Southern CrOss-all adjacentto 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 l25 from the surface. At
| the point of intersection made by the tun-
mel and ledge lateral drift has been run
| to the west a distance of 800 feet; also, II
| lateral drift has been run to the east rs feet
to u WinZe 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 teet., Going back to point
| where the Lateral drift vest leaves the
tunnel a 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 a
stope to the south where some ore has been
extracted and reduced at the Chairman
mill, which averaged S11 per ton. There is
an opening to the surface u distance of
| something more than 100 feet through the
roof of the stope, which is in ore all the
there is crosscut to the north. The dis
lance taken from the back of the st~pe
and to the end OF TIE crosscut shows the
| ledge to be ~ feet wide. The ore stOpe
extends along the lateral drift to the west
a 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 80 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
value of the north crosscut is SIG por ton