The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-03-20

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 OPEN
ings 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 as the cave, is reached
through Il tunnel sixty feet in length, at
which point Il cnVe was encountered and
the ore vein WAS also reached. From this
point an incline forty-tiye feet in depth
was sunk. At the bottom OF the incline a
drift was driven one hundred and twenty
five feet to the east, and also another th1r-
ty-tive feet to the north. Several CROSSE uts
We're made at different places. all OF which
are in ore OF good grade. To the west OF
the work in the cave arc other extensive
works, in which a large amount of drifting
and sinking has been done and a 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 Joanna
mine, prepared by the Hon. Thos. Wren OF
Eureka, Nevada, the following. quotation
is made: "The ore was reduced at a small
ten stnmp water mill at the town of Ely,
about three miles from the mine. Thu mill
is poorly constructed and the only appli-
ances Tor saving gold were copper plates.
Less than one-half the gold was saved by
this mode OF working. as was shown by
at,u NJ = - Of tho fAilinn0 Annrnyi.
mntely seven dollars n 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 the aggregate was something
over fifteen thousand dollars. The exact
figures are ON record in the office Of the
assesso" Of White Pin county" Some dis
lance further to the west there is a tunnel
one hundred and fifty feet in lenPth that
rross-cuts the ledge. The whole length o
the tunnel is in ledge matte. Some time
ago this tunnel was sampled in sections by
an experienced sampler, the ayerape of the
different samples taken giving $4.15 in gold.
There have been various estimates of the
amount of ore in sight. 1t would be ditfi-
cult indeed for all estimates to be mace
with any degree OF accuracy. Some, how
ever, have shoan more than fifteen thou
sand tons of the average value of $3.50 per
ton, The Pold j: free but the clay and
nary plate rroceSs for saving the gold.
The Joanna mine has been unfortunate, it
has suffered as many min s have before it.
When the first great strike was made, and
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great expense and annoyance to the owner.
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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 Joana No. 2 on the south
The group is composed of five mines, which
are the Chairman Chairman Gore. Turkey V
Southern Cross-nn adjacentto other. The
development work upon the group is most
" done upon the Chairman and Chairman
Gore mines. The entrance to the mine is
through a 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 bsen run
to the west a distance of 500 feet. also. a