The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-07-17

on what is known a. Aultman Hill.
Just below and adjoining the Ault-
man on the north is the
Joanna MINE,
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
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, ut
which point q cave was encountered and
the ore vein was also reached. From this
point an incline forty-five feet in depth
drift was driven one hundred and twenty
five feet to the east, and also another thir-
ty-fve feet to the north. Several crosse 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 a
statment of facts regarding the Joana
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 appl-
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 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
ton in the ore worked. The amount TAX
Ell 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 s4.15 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 made
with any degree OF accuracy. Some, how
ever, have shown more than fifteen thou
sand tons of the average value OF 1880 per
ton. The gold is free bnt the clay and
oxide of iron require more than the ordi-
nary plate process for saving the Pold.
The Joana mine has been unfortunate, it
has suffered as many min IS have before it,
When the first great strike was made, and
il WAS known that 1t was mine OF unusual
merit litigation began which ran through
the courts for term OF several years at
great expense and annoyance to the owner
The property was tied up and could not be
united until the Judgment Of the court was
had During this LITIGATION number OF
mining men visited he Joaua at various
times and made examinations o: the prop
erty. 1t is generally believed that the
property net their expectations and was
way until all,wcre tired o"'. Had il net
been for this unfort1nn;e ahsir 1t would
no doubt, he oIls o. the large rroducelscf
the day, and the district OF Robirso1
would lie in quite different condition.
The Joana mi!ie Is now tire proper -
Messrs, Hip, Wren, Cheney, SaGie1 M
jackson. TheEe gentlemen own II timber
of mines in the district,
Joanna No. 2.
The property Of Messrs ostergard, House
Lawson, Hip and others, actions the 10
ann on the west. There has heen consid-
cradle work done, but not sufficient to
develop the value Of the claim. In the
the ame MS the Joana in character. Out
of "A number Of tons milled from this prop
erty 81 per ton in gold was saved.
cHAINMAN GROUP,
Tho property of Messrs Lyons. McGii,
McOmic 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
G1.,.t al. t, ntL
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, and 1876 from the surface. At
the point OF intersection made by the tun-
mel and ledge n lateral drift has bsen run
to the west a distance of 500 feet; also Il
lateral drift has beep run to the east 10 feet
TO winze which extends down tOa second
or lower level of the mine, distance of
100 feet below the tnnnel or first level.
Thus 1t will be seen the total depth at this
point is 227 feet. Going back TO a point
where the lateral drift Sest leaves 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 a
stope to the south where some ore has been
extracted and reduced at the Chairman
mill, which averaged S11 per ton. There is
an opening to the surface 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 crosscut to the north. The dis
lance taken from the back of the stcpe
and to the end of the crosscut shows the
ledge to be a. feet wide. The ore stope
extends along the lateral drift to the west,
a distance of fifty feet to another crossout
to the north, and shows the ledge to be
twenty-four feet wide. The crosscut is not