The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-01-16

| w hose flcn ore attracted SO INT l 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
aud exposed on the west eud 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 rs the cave, IS reaehed
through tunnel sixty feet in length ut
which point a cave was encountered and
the ore vein was also reached. From this
point an incline forty-iive feet in depth
was sunk. Al the bottom Of the incline
drift was driven che hundred and twenty
five feet to the cost, and also another thir-
| ty-five feet to the north Several cross 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 are other extensive
works, in which large amount OF drifting
aud 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
| stat.nent 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 II 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,
Less than one-half the gold was saved by
this mode of working, as was shown by
| constant assays Of the tallings. Approx
mateiy seven dollars IL 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.
,tc al sri4A
| the tailings, an average of fourteen dollars
Il ton in the ore worked The amount TAX
| en- out i'll the aggregate was something
| over fifteen thousand dollars. The exact
! figures are on record in the Office OF the
assesso- OF White Pine county" Some dis
tance further to the west there is a tunnel
one hundred ami fifty feet in length that
cross-clits the ledge. The whole length OF
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 A.15 in Pold.
There have been various estimates of the
amount of ore i'll SIGHT. 1t would be diff
cult indeed for all estimates to be made
with my degree Of accuracy. Some, how
ever, have shoTn more than fifteen thou-
sand tons of the ayerare value Of SEQ per
ton. The rolG is free bat the ciay and
oxide of iron require more than the ordi-
nary plate process for saVinP the pOld.
The JoaflN mine has been unfortunate, it
has suffered as many MIN nave before II;
W
| Il was known ti.Nt ii was mine OF unusual
merit litigatio began which ran through
tbs courts for term OF several years ut
great expense and annoyance 10 the owner.
The property was tied up AID 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 nude examsretions q thu prop
erty. 1t is generally believed that the
property met their expectations and WIS
satisfactory; nut the law sni 81 s;ond in the
| waY until oil were tred or. Had /! nos
been for this untnriuuar ahsir it 'ecu.d
! no doubt he one o he irrgg producers -
The day, and the district Of i'ohirs3a
wonla lie in qulae iiferens ccRdi 10.
The Joara min" Il nov ne lre,er;- Q,
Messrs, IIilp, Wtcn ;.heaey, saC,as Al
jackson. These gentlemen GW1 number
o. mines IL The district.
Joanna No. >,
The property of Messrs. ostereard, House.
Lawson, Hip and others. adi0iuS the DO
ANA on the west. There has been cpnsid-
cradle work done, but not sufficient to
| develop the yane of the cl2im. In the
deerest working they have some good ore,
| oi a number Of tons milled from this prop
orty 81 per ton in gold was saved
CHAIRMAN GROUP,
The property OF Messrs. Lyons, McGill,
| McOmic and Uuderhill, is situatei on Ault-
man hill ADJOINING the Aultman mine on
the west and The Joana No . on the south
| The Proupis composed of five mines, which
are the Chairman Chairman Gore, Turkey
| Southern CrCss-an adjacent TO other. The
| development work urOu 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 nj q point 800 feet from the mouth of
the tunnel, and l25 from tho surface. At
the point of intersection made by the tun-
mel and ledge u lateral drift has bsen run
| to the west n distance of 500 feet; also,
| lateral drift has been run to the east IS feet
TO Winze which extends down to a second
or lower level OF the mine, Il 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 Sest leaves the
tunnel u distance of sixty feet TO west in the
drift a crOsscUt has heen made to the south,
and an openine to The north at the same
point, which shows the ledge at this point
to he thirty feet wide. Forty feet further
to the west, in the lateral drift, there is
stope to the south where some ore has been
extracted and reduced at the Chairman
mill, which averaged $ll per ton There is
an opening to the surface a 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 TIE crosscut shows the
ledge to be ~ feet wide. The ore stope
eNituus hlong me iateral drllt 10 the west,
II distance q fifty feet to another crossout
to the north, and shows the ledge to be
twcnty-iOur feet wide. The crosscut is not
entirely across the ledge. An average gives
Sc 30 poid Per ton. Fifty feet further west
in the lateral drift another another cross
cut is made to the north twenty eight feet:
also to the south a distance of eighty feet.
The crosscut to the south has not extended
entirely across the ledge. The average
value OF the north cTosscut is Sic por ton
in gold. The average in the south crosseut
is IS pert on in gold. The ledge a, this point