The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-06-26

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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 fect of tunnels, drifts and open
! ings were made. The ledge was stripped
and exposed on the west eud 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
through a 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-fve 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 thir-
| ty-tiye feet 10 the north. Several cross uts
were made Mt 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 large amount OF drifting
aud sinking has been done and quantity
of good ore wns exposed. great many
tons Of ore were milled from this portion
Of the mine with fair results. From
stat ncnt 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 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 tailinPs. 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 OF the
assesso" 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
| the tunnel is in ledge matter Some time
| ago this tunnel was sampled in sections by
| an experienced sampler the averaro of the
| different samples taken giving $i.l5 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 mace
| with any degree OF accuracy. Some, how
| ever, have shown more than fifteen thou
| sand tons of the average value OF $3.50 per
| ton. The sold is free but the clay and
| oxide of iron require more than the ordi-
| nary plate process for saving the pold.
The Joanna mine has been unfortunate, 1t
| has suffered Ms many min have before ii.
| When the first great strike was made, and
|
| merit litigatio.I began which ran through
| the courts for 3 term of several yea1I al
| great expense and annoyance 20 the owner.
| THE property was tied up and could not ne
| united until the Judgment OF the court was
| had Duriur this litioatiop number of
muing men visited he ,loana at various
| times E"d luade cNamirHttons o: tn prop
| erty. 1t is generally believed that the
| property met their expectations aud vas
| satisfactory: on; the i.W sI,ila 1t sod in tia
wey until all were i,c} GU, Hal f. NJ
heen for this uaiortHnAr Hfa;r : w""ic
~ doub, he oaa . the ieree rrol1e.'S -
he dav AMI ~ Asrirj "t i:cail,S2-
would e in qu'.e difftren ecadi Ia.
The JohnA miaf Is how y ifope.- .!
i i,.s fhesr een.ientn own !, l,ni e,
~ mines in the district.
lobEA No. =,
| The l-roueity of .tessrs. Ostergsrd. iIou7e.
| Lawson, Hin aud others. ndjoins the 10
ana -. the vest. There has been con. ID
prahle weak done, but not sufficient TO
| devolop The rnlu" Of the claim. In the
de";cst working they nave some coed ore,
the ame as the joana in character. out
Of 4 number OF tons m;lled from this prop
erty 81 per ton in gold waa saved.
CRAFTSMAN GROUP,
The property of Messrs. Lyons, McGill,
| McOmie and Upderhill, is situate on Ault-
man hill, adjoining the Aultman mine on
the west and the Joana No. 2 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 A large tunnel, which taps the
| ledge at point 500 feet from the mouth of
the tunnel, and lbs from tho surface. At
| the point Of intersection made by the tun-
| mel and ledge Il lateral drift has bsen run
| to the west distance of 500 feet; also, Il
| lateral drift has been run to the east IS feet
| to n Wine which extends down to Il second
| or lower level of the mine, distance of
LOO feet below the tnnnel or, first level.
Thus II will be seen the total depth al this
| point is 227 feet. Going back to a point
where the lateral drift Sest leaves the
| tunnel distance of sixty feet to west in the
drift cTosscut has been made to the south,
and an openin 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
stope to the south where some ore has been
extracted and reduced at the Chairman
mill, which averaged 81 per ton There is
al opening to the surface Il 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 crosscut to the north. The dis
lance taken from the back of the st" pc
and to the end of TIE crosscut shows the
ledge to be ~ feet wide. The ore stope
extends along the lateral drift to the west,
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 vest
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 crosscut is SIS por ton
in gold. The average in the south crosscut
is 81 pert on in gold. The ledge at this point
is sh )wn to be los feet wide. Twenty feet