The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-02-06

! 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 ehd 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 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 was driven one hundred and twenty
| five feet to the east, and also another th1r-
| ty-live feet to the north. Several cross uts
were made at different places all OF which
are in orc 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 millcd from this portion
OF the mine with fair results. From a
statmcnt 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 small
| ten stamp water mill at the town OF Ely,
about three miles from the mine. The mill
| is poorly constructed and the only appl1-
ances for saving gold were copper plates.
Less than oue-half the gold was saved by
| this mode of working, as was shown by
! constant assays of the tailinRs. Approx
| mately seven dollars 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 i'll
| 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 oil the
| assessor OF White Pine county" Some dis
| lance further to the west there is tunnel
| one hundred and fifty feet in length THAI
eross-cuts the ledge. The whole length Of
the tunnel is in ledge matter. Some time
| ago this tunnel was sampled in sections by
| an experienced samper, the average of the
different samples taken giving A.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 mace
with any degree OF accuracy. Some, how
ever, have shown more than fifteen thou
| sand tons of the averape value of Sl2.h0 per
ton. The pold is free but the clay and
| oxide OF iron require more than the ordi-
| nary plate process for saving the gold.
The Joaua mine has been unfortunate, it
| has suffered us many min have before 1t.
| When the first great strike was made, and
| il was known that it was a mine OF unusual
merit, litipatio.i began which ran through
| the courts Tor term OF several years Mt
| great expense and annoyance TO the owner.
| The property Was tied up and could not he
united until the judgment OF the court was
| had During this LITIGATION u number of
mininp men visited he Joanna at various
| times and made examinations o: the prop
erty. 1t is generally believed that the
property met their expectations and was
satisfactory: nut thc law suisa t0od in the
| way until al were Urea oUt. Had tonCt
been for this ungor.uua'e ahHir Il wfV'o
| no doubt, be one o. the tfrCe DroddcsiF e :
The day, aud the district OF Robinson
would lie in quite dit rem ecndi ion.
The Joanna mi1e Is n4w ne pro"cr:~ 9!
| Nessrs. lIilr. Wren Ehency, sEGief an1
Jackson. These gentlemen own n,i,nher
% mines in the district.
Joanna NO. 2,
The property Of Mcssrs. Ostcrgard, House.
Lawson, Hip and others, adtoins the JO-
ann on the west There has been consld
cradle work done, but not sufficient to
| develop the value OF the claim In the
deepest working they have some good ore,
the same as the Joanna in character. out
of number OF tons milled from this prop
erty 81 per ton in gold was saved.
CHAIRMAN GROUP,
The property of Mcssrs. Lyons, McGill
McOmie and Upderhill, is situated on Ault-
|
the west and the Joana No. 2 on the south
The group is composed OF five mines, which
are the Chairman Chairman Gore, Turkey Y
| Southern Cross-ai 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 800 feet from the mouth of
the tunnel, aud l25 from the surface. At
the point OF intersection made by the tun-
mel and ledge lateral drift has baen run
to the west distance of 500 feet; also, n
lateral DRIFT has been run to the east 10 feet
to Wine which extends down to second
or lower level of the mine, a distance of
loo feet below the tnnuel 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 Sest 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 the west, in the lateral drift, there is a
stope to the south where some ore has been
extracted aud reduced at the Chairman
mill, which averaged 81 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 a 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 ~ feet wide. Tho 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
81 80 gold per ton. Fifty feet further west
in the lateral drift another another cross
cut il 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
in gold The average in the south crosscut
is 81 pert on in gold. The ledge at this point