The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1896-05-09


man on the north is the
Joanna NINE,
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 a 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 n tunnel sixty feet in length at
which point cave was encountered ana
| the ore vein was also reached. From this
point an incline forty-fye feet in depth
| was sunk At the bottom of the incliue
! drift was driven one hundred and twenty
| five feet to the cast, and also another thir-
| ty-tive feet to the north. Several eros 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. great many
| tons of ore were milled from this portion
| of the mine with fair results From
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 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
/ m
| this process, as shown by the returns by
Watson under oath to the assessor OF White
Pine county, for the PURPOSE o. taxation.
This would give, adding the gold lost in
| the tailings, an average Of four'eon dollars
a ton in the ore worked. The amount tux
| en- ont in tn, 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 tunnel
one hundred and fifty feet in length that
the tunnel is ip 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 mace
with any degree of accuracy Some, how
ever, have shown more than fifteen thou
| sand tons of the average value OF $l2.50 per
ton. The gold is free but the clay and
oxide of iron require more than the ordi-
nary plate process for saving the gold :.
The Joanna mine has been unfortunate, 1t
| has suffered as many min have before it.
When the first great strike was made, and
| il was known that it was mine of unusual
merit litjpatio began which ran through
tho courts for G term of several years at
| great expense and annoyance to the owner.
| The property was tied up and could not DC
united until the Judgment Of the court was
had. During this litigation number of
mininp mei, visited the Joana at various
| r 81 O nYa ny fh,l
erty. 1t is generally believed that the
property met their expectations and was
satitfactory: buI the law suits stood in the
WAY until all were tired out. Ead IL not
been for this rnfcr;unate affair i. wcu'd
no doubt be one OF the isrgc producers -
ire day and the district O totingcn
would 30 in quite diiferen- cordi 70.
Tho Joana mine Is TOW the pron"r;' .?
Jackson. These gentlemen own g number
OF mines in tho district.
JoANA NO 2,
! The property of Megsrs. 0atercar;l, House.
Lawson, Hip AND Others, adioins the 10
ana on the west. There has been eopsid-
develop the value Of the claim. In the
! deepest working they have some good ore,
the same as the Joana in character. Dat
of number of tons milled from this prop
erty 81 per ton III gold was saved.
CHAIRMAN GROUP,
The property Of Messrs. Lyons, McGill.
McOmie and Uuderh III, is situate or Ault-
man hill, adjoirlng the Aultman mine on
the west aud the Joanna No. on the south
The group is con! osed Of five mines, which
| are the Oh sinman Chairman Gore, Turkey V
| 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 q point 500 feet from the mouth Of
the tunnel, and 1875 from the surface. At
the point of intersection made by 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 a Wine which extends down to second
100 feet below the tnnnel or first level.
Thus it will be seen the total depth at this
point is DOT feet. Going back to a point
| where the lateral drift vest leaves the
tunnel 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 q
| 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 a 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 st pc
and to the end Of the crosscut shows the
| ledge to be az feet wide. Tho 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
| S. 50 gold per ton. Fifty feet further west
in the lateral drift another another cross