The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-05-01

JoANA 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
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 tunnel sixty feet in length, ut
which point cave was encountered and
the ore vein was also reached. From this
point an incline forty-five feet in depth
was sunk. At the bottom OF the incline a
drift was driven one hundred and twenty
Ave feet to the east and also another thir-
ty-five feet to the north Several cross. 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
of the mine with fair results. From
statment 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 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 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
a 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
cross-cuts the ledge. The whole length o
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 S.15 in Pold.
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 shoTn 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 ordl-
nary plate process for saving the gold.
The joanna mine has been unfortunate, it
has suffered as many MN nave before II;
Mneh the lrst Sreat e.lIke was isuuc, '.uv
IL WAS kuo" .iut ~ vas q itit'e W u ,i
merit, l1nPatlo began within ran thfpusll
the courts for g term of several years at
great expense anu annoyance W WY y" .leI.
ire properly was tleu W anu to'llu nov We
unIled nhtil lhe l!uslnetlt ~ tne uo.r Nv Maf
mining men visited ,he Joana at various
times ana maze examlhnli1ns o. tne pTup-
erty VI is geherally peneNeu tnht me
properly me- their e;NPeeta:ioiiss W. W W,
Satisfactory nlt lhe law SUI s'0'li III tile
way UNI, an Wcrs ,ileu on i ~ -, ~
been 1or thls ull;crtunN'G ai"1r y "Uu't
no doubt, ne one or Ii,e if'Ee ifot'' - 90
The day. ana the Iistrrt al t'YDi'iSo"
would ne IN qni.e a''In.,sl- en-, - -.
The Joanna mine i no" nc prone .:
Messrs, MN, wren Sheae:, Az W
Jackson. lhese gen t!eiheh o"a u iinhe'
o. mines IN inc oistrict'
Joanna NJ. =,
The property OF Me'srs ostergaId, House.
lawson, IMP ana others; hdloioF the 20
ana on the west. Ihere mas been eonsiG-
efafie WORK zone, nut not shhiclrht 20
develop the value OF the elplm. IN the
deepest WORKING thcY nave some Eood ore,
me lame Ms tne Joanna N cnafact'r' pht
OF number oi tons mllled RON this prop
eft! VI per ton III eolo was saved.
cu,,uu,x c,o,p
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The property of Mcssrs LYONS. McGill.
McOmie and Underhill, is situate. 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 Chairman Gore, Turkey V
Southern Cross-al adjacent to other. The
development work upon the group is most
ly done upon tie 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