The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-07-31

on what is known as Aultman Hill.
Just below snd adjoining the Ault-
man on ths north is the
JoANA NINE.
Whose rich ore attracted so mi a.
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 feat of tunnels, drifts and OPEN
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 a cave was encountered and
the ore vein was also reached. From this
point an incline forty-nye feet in depth
was SINK. AT the bottom of the incline
drift was driven one hundred and twenty
five feet to the east, and also another thlr-
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
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 Joanna
mine, prepared by the Hon. Thos. Wren Of
Eureka, Nevada, the following quotation
is made: 1.-THE ore was reduced at a 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 tailinPs. Approx
mately seven dollars ton was saved by
this process, rs 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
n 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 ayeraPe oil 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, now
ever, have shown more than fifteen thou-
sand tons of the average value of Sl2.50 per
ton. The gold is free but the clay and
oxide of iron require more than the ordi-
nary plate process for saving the gold.
The Jouna mine has been unfortunate, 1t
has suffered as many min IS have before II;
When the first great strike was made, and
IL was known that it was mine OF unusual
merit, litipatioti began which ran through
the courts for term OF several years At
great expense ana annoyance TO me owner,
The property was tied up ana could not be
united until the judgment OF the court was
had. During this LITIGATION number OF
mining men visited he Joanna at various
times and made examinations 0. the prop
crtv. 1t is generally believed that the
pronertv met their expectations and Was
satisfactory; out the law suits stood in the
way until all.were tired out. lid i" NC
been for this unf0rtdndfc affair II WcUtu
no Doubt be one % the larSc prOt3cs ~ 4;
the day, and the iistric; of Pcpinson
would he in quite differen- condi ion.
The Joanh miac Is now the pron"-- -
Messre. Hip, Wtcn Cheney. @a,.3el NJ.
Jackson, These gentlemen own ndtnhei
o. nines in the district.
Joanna NO. .,
| The property of Messrs. Disregard, House.
Lawson, Hip and others. adioins the 10
| ana or the west. There has been consid-
| cradle work done, but not sufficient to
| dei elop the value of the claim. In the
| deepest working they have some good ore,
| the same as the Joanna in character. Ont
| OF a number of tons milled from this prop
| ertv 81 per ton in gold was saved.
CHAIRMAN GROUP,
The property of Messrs. Lyons, McGill,
McOmie and Underhill, is situated on Ault-
man hill, adjoining the Aultman mine on
| the west and the Joanna No on the south
| The groupis composed of five mines, which
are the Chairman Chairman Gore Turkey V
| Southern Cross-ai. adjacent to 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, and 1875 from the surface. At
| the point OF intersection made by the tun-
mel and ledge lateral drift has bsen run
| to the west distance of 800 feet; also, b.
| lateral drift has beep run to the east 10 feet
| to Wine which extends down to 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 q point
where the lateral drift vest leaves the
! tunnel a distance ofsixty feet to west in tn
| drift a crosscut has been made to the south,
| ard 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
rsof OF the stope, which is in ore all the
way. On the opposite side of the drift
there is u crosscut to the north. The dis
lance taken from the back of the ST pc
and to the end of tte crosscut shows the
ledge to be A. feet wide. Tho ore Slope
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
| in the lateral drift another another cross
cnt is nnMle To the north tIynn L =eiuh feet !.