The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-02-20

or rsss is known as Aultman Hill.
just pslow and adjoining the Ault-
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 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 opeu-
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 tunnel sixty feet in length at
which point cave was encountered and
the ore vein was also reached. From this
point an incline forty-tive feet in depth
was sunk At the bottom of the incline
drift wa, driven one hundred and twenty
five feet 10 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 a large amount of drifting
aud sinking has been done and quantity
of good ore was exposed; A great many
tons Of ore were milled from this portion
of the mine with fair results. From a
statment OF facts regarding the Joana
mine, prepared by the II on. Thos. Wren OF
Eureka, Nevada, the following quotation
is made. 1.-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 Tor saving gold were copper plates.
A. al f1aA Il -aI lt-
this mode of working, as was shown by
constant assays of the tailinPs Approx
mately seven dollars ton was saved by
this process, us 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 die 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 II tunnel
one hundred and nifty feet IN lenPta that
rross-cutS the ledge. The whole length o
the tunnel is in ledge matter. Some .ime
ago this tunnel was sampled in sections BY
an experienced sampler, the avernFe OF the
different samples taken giving $l.lj in rold.
There have been various estimates OF the
amount Of ore in sight. 1t would be dlfi-
cult indeed for all estimates to be MADE
with any degree of accuracy. Some. row
ever have shown more than fifteen NOT
sand tons of the avcrnPe value of Sl2.10 per
ton The gold is free but the clay and
oxide of iron require more than the ordi
nary plate process for saving the Pold.
The Ioana mine has been unfortunate, it
has suffered as many min have before it.
When the first great strike was made, and
il was known that ii was mine OF unusual
merit. LITIGATION began which ran through
the courts for term of several years at
great expense and annoyance 10 the owner.
y pntllI he
united until the JUDGMENT of the court was
had During this LITIGATION Il number of
mininr men visited he Joanna ut various
times and made examinations o: the prom
crtv. 1t Is generally believed that the
property met their expectations and was
satisfactory: Eut the law sui is stood IN the
way until all were iiiel ont. Had j. not
been for this unfor:unaGc ahair il wouio
no doubt, he one o the lfrEe producers 81
he day, and the district OF Robinson
would be in quite q different Ccndi ion.
The Joana Minis is now -ne pr2pcr.E ct
Meesrs, Hin, Wren; Cheney. $aClet AMI
jackson. These gentlemen own r,iinher
o. mines in the district.
Joanna 80. 2,
| The property of Messrs. Ostergard, House.
| Law son, Hip and others, adioins the Jo-
ana on the west. There has been coz sid
| era lie work done, hut not sufficient to
| develop the value OF the claim. In the
| de, rest working they have some good ore,
OF number OF tons milled from this prop
| erty 81 per ton in gold was saved.
CHAIRMAN GROUP,
The property of Mcssrs. Lyons, McGil,
| MeOmie and Underhill, is situated on Ault-
| man hill, adjoining the Aultman mine on
| the west and the ,loana No. on the south
| The group lis composed of five mines. which
are the Chairman Chairman Gore, Turkey V
| Southern Cross-al. adjacent to other. The
Iatr
| ly done upon the Chairman and Chairman
| Gore mines. The entrance to the mine is
| through large tunnel, which taps the
| ledge at a point 800 feet from the mouth of
| the tunnel, and 125 from tho surface. At
the point OF intersection made by the tun-
mel and ledge II lateral drift has bscn run
| to the west distance of 800 feet; also, a
| lateral drift has been run to the east ~ feet
| to a Wine which extends down to second
or lower level OF the mine, a distance of
| 100 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 IA
stope to the south where some ore has been
extracted and reduced at the Chairman
mill, which averaged 81 per ton, There is
au opening 10 lne surface Il distance OF
something more than 100 feet through the
reof OF the stope, which is in ore all the
! way. on the opposite side of the drift
| there is q crosscut to the north. The dis
lance taken from the back of the ST pc
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 crosseut
to the north, and shows the ledge to be
twenty-four feet wide. The crosscut is not
entirely across the ledge. An average gives
ST 80 gold Der ton Fifty feet further ives :