The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-02-27

d llSt aSiGa hid dtlO4llIH5 Jig aull-
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 q
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 tho mine about fifteen
hundred feet OF tunnels, drifts and open
iugs were made. The ledge was stripped
and exposed on the west end 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 MS the cave, is reached
through Il tunnel sixty feet in length, at
which point a cave was encountered and
the ore vein WnSa also reached. From this
point an incline forty-five ieet in depth
was sunk. At ne bottom Of the incline a
drift was driven one hundred mud twenty
five feet to the east, and also another thir-
tN-tive feet to the north. Several cross rts
were made at different places, all of watch
are in ore of good grade. To the west Of
the work in the cave are other extensive
works, in which r. large amount Of drifting
md sinking has been done and n quantity
Of good ore was exposed. A great many
tons OF ore Were lnillcd from this portion
Of the mine with fair results. From 4
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 II small
ten stamp water mill Mt the town Of Ely,
about three miles from the mine. The mill
is poorly constructed and the only nppli-
auces Tor saving gold were copper plates.
Less han one-half the gold was saved by
this mode Of working, as was shown by
I,, I'd, F., . nu-.. 80 ~ h. Atlt-nu a-pZ~
mately seven dollars II ton Was saved by
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, adding the gold lost in
the tailings, an average of fourteen dollars
a ton in the ore worked. The amount TAX
en- out in tho aggregate was something
over fifteen thousand dollars, The exact
figurcs 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 aud iifty feet in lenprh that
cross-cuts the ledge. The whole length o
the tunnel is in ledFe matter. Some time
ago this tunnel was sampled in sections by
an experienced sampler, the avera~oo OF the
differeIt samples taken giving $4.15 in gold.
There have been various estimates of the
amount Of ore III sight. II would be diff
cult indeed for all estimates to be made
with any degree Of accuracy. Some, how
ever, have sho-su more than fifteen thou
sane tons of the aNernpc value OF $3.50 per
ton. The pold is free bnt the clay aud
oxide of iron REQUIRE more than the urdi-
nary plate process for saving the pold.
The ,iOanu mine has been unfortunate, it
has suffered ~ many min $ have before ii.
When the first great strike was made, ami
il was known that il was a mine of unusual
merit, litipntio began which ran through
the courts for Il term of several years Mt
great expense and annoyance 10 the owner.
The property WAS tied up and could not be
united until til iuafmeut of the court was
hqi hIrihB thic Hfiuhtinn 81 number of
mininp men visited he lonna at various
times and made examinations o. the prom
erty. 1t is generally believed that The
property met their expectations aud was
satisfactory: m The law Siiits eto0d in the
way uutil ail were i1ei oui. Had i rGt
been for this HfliCrtnrH3 Atair i WiH.u
M doubt, he n .. tAe iarSe produC 'st'
lie dRr. and tIe .~iittrirt OF NCbirs9l
would lie in quite lditfecea- ccadi io".
The JoauN mine Is il"W me pr1ueg %.
Nessrs, Hin, Mtsn Cheney, Haaies ant
Jackson. These gentlemen eva 8 nrnher
Of mines in the district.
Joanna NO. ,,
The iroperty o. Messrs. 0stergard, House.
Lawson, Hip and others. adi0ins the 10
n On the west. There has been cousid-
era' le work GONE, but not sufficient to
develop the value of the claim. In the
deel est working they have some good ore.
the isiae as the Joanna in character. ont
Of & number % tons milled from this prop
Gll, - iti lOil AZ gnu vas say tu.
CRAFTSMAN GROUP,
The property of Megsrs. Lyons, McGill.
McOmie and Underhill, Is situated on Ault-
man Hill, adjoining the Aultman mine on
the west and the Joana No. . on the south
The groups com posed of five mines. which
are the Chairman Chairman Gore. Turkey Y
southern Cross-at adjacent to other. The
Development YORK; upon the group is most
ly done upon the Chairman and Chairman
frnrn rDfnnH HlA antppTn4aA TO t1,a ID. -, -
through . large tunnel, which taps the
ledge al q point 900 feet from the mouth of
the tunnel, and l25 from tho surface. At
the point Of intersection made by the tun-
mel and ledge y lateral drift has hecn run
90 the west p distance OF SEQ feel; also. a
lateral drift has been run TO the east ~ feet
to Il Wine which extends down to second
or lower level of the mine, a distance of
100 feet below the tnnnel or first level.
Thus ii will be seen the total depth ut this
point is 227 feet. Going back to n point
where the lateral drift Sest leaves the
tunnel d distance ofsiHty feet TO west in the
drllt a crcsscut mas been made to the south,
and an opeuin. TO the north at the same
point, which shows the ledge al this point
to be thirty feet wide. Forty feet further
to the west, in the lateral drift, there is a
stopc TO the south where Ome ore has been
extracted and reduced at the Chairman
mill, which averaged 81 per ton. There is
an opcniug to the surface n 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 a crosscut to the north. The dis
lance taken from the back of the St@p
and to the end of TIC crosscut shows the
ledge to be - feet vide. Tho ore stnpe
extends along the lateral drift to the west,
a distance Of fifty feet to another crosscut
to the north, and hOW the ledge to he
twenty-four feet wide. The crosseut is not
entirely acrCss n ledge. An average gives
s. 50 gold per ton. Fifty feet further west
in the lateral drift another another cross