The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-03-27

JoANA NINE,
Whose rich ore attracted so mi at
tention about I'll zee years ago. is
separated from the Aultman q
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 we're made. The ledge was stripped
and exposed on the west end of the mine
for y 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 reached
through a tunuel sixty feet in length, at
which point a ave was encountered and
the ore vein was also reached. From this
point an incline forty-iive feet in depth
was sunk. At the bottom OF the incline a
drift was driven one hundred and twenty
FIVE feet to the cast, and also another th1r-
ty-fiye feet to the north. Several 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 a large amount of drifting
and sinking has been done and d quantity
of good ore was exposed. A great many
tons of ore were milled from this portion
OF the mine with fair results. From n
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 ut a small
ten stamp water mill at the town of Ely,
about three miles from the mint The mill
is poorly constructed and the only appli-
ances for saving gold were copper plates.
Less than one-hhlf the gold was saved by
this mode of working, as was shown by
constant assays OF the tailings. Approx
mately seven dollars o 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
u 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 Il 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 $4.l5 III gold.
There have been various estimates of the
amount of ore in sight. 1t would be diff
cult indeed for all IN to be mace
with any degree Of accuracy. Some, how
ever, have shown more than fifteen thou
sane tons OF the average value OF S12.50 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 Joana mint has been unfortunate, it
has suffered as many min IS have before 1t.
when the first great strike was made, and
il was known that it was II mine Of unusual
merit, |litigatiOI began which ran through
the courts for q term OF several years at
great expense and annoyance to the oN ner.
The propcrtE was tied up and could not be
united Until the Judgment OF the court was
had. During this LITIGATION 4 number of
mining men visited he JoNna at various
times AND made examinations o. the prop
erty. 1t is generally believed that the
satisfactory; mt the law suits stood in the
way until AL wcra tired OK. Had /; not
been for THIS UHiurtunate ailsir /. "outG
no doubt, be one o. the urge producers =
the day, and the district OF Robinson
would lie in quite a d iferon- condi ion.
The Joana mine is nov the proree5T OF
Messrs, Hip, Wren. Cheney, sadleI ami
Jackson. These gentlemen owa a uamher
of mines in the district.
DAN No. ,,
The property Of Aiessrs. Disregard, House.
Lawson, Hip and others, adjoius the J0-
ana on tine west. There has been consid-
cradle work done, but not sufficient to
develop the value of the claim. In the
deepest working they have some good ore,
the same as the joanna in character. Ont
OF y number of tons miIled from this prop
erty 81 per ton in gold was saved.
CHAIRMAN GROUP,
The property of Mcssrs. Lyons, MeGill,
McOmie and Underhill, is situateo on Ault-
man hill, adjoining the Aultman mine on
the west and the Johna No. 2 on the south
The group is 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 min is
through : large tunnel, which taps the
ledge at a point 800 feet from the mouth of
the tunnel, and 125 from tha surface. At
the point OF intersection made by the tun-
mel and ledge a lateral drift has baen run
to the west a distance OF 800 feet: also, a
lateral drift has been run to the east 10 feet
to u Wine which extends down to a second
or lower level OF the mine, Il distance OF
loo feet below the tnnnel or first level.
Thus IL Will be seen the total depth at this
point is 227 feet. Going back to a point
where the lateral drift %est leaves the
unnel a distance ofsiXty feet to west in the
drift a crosscnt has been made to the south,
aud 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
st0pe to the south where ONE ore has been
extracted and reduced at the Chairman
mill, which averaged $l1 per ton. There is
an opening to the surface n distance OF
something more than 100 feet through the
roof OF the stope, which is in ore all the
way. On the opposite side of the drift
there is Il 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 ~ feet wide. The ore stope
extends along the lateral drift to the west,
a distance Of fifty feet to another crossout
to the north, md shows the ledge to be
twenty-!our feet wide. The crosscut is not
entirely across the ledge. An average gives
81 80 gold per ton. Fifty feet further west
III the lateral drift another another cross
cut is made 10 the north twenty eight feet: