The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-01-23

man on the north is the
JoANA NINE,
Whose rich ore attracted so mi at
tention about t. 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 ard OPEN
ings were made. The ledge was stripped
and exposed on the west end OF the nine
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 retrhed
through tunnel sixty feet i'll length, at
which point a cave was encountered ana
the ore vein was also reached From this
point an incline forty-iive feet in depth
was sunk. Al Tie bottom Of the incline
drift was driven one hundred and twenty
five feet to the cast, ana also another thir-
ty-hve feet to the north. Several eros nts.
were made nj different places. all OF whtch
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 quantity
OF good ore was exposed. A great many
tons of ore were milled from this. portion
Of the mine with fair results. From
statncnt of facts regarding the Joanna
mine, prepared by the Hon. Thos Wren OF
Eureka, Nevada, the folio wing quotation
is made: "Ihe 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 appl-
auces tor saving gold were copper plates.
Less than one haf the gold was saved by
this mode of working, as was shown by
constant assays Of the tailings. APPROX
i tY ,=fasIl N.
this process, as shown by the returns bv
Watson under oath to me assessor Of White
Pine county, for the purpose OF taxation.
This would give, adding the gold lost in
the tailinps, an average of fourteen dollars
a ton in the ore worked. The amount TAX
en- ont ia TIT 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 tect in lenpth that
cross-cuts the ledge. The whole length Of
the tunnel is in ledge matter. Some time
ago this tunnel wax sampled in sections by
an experienced sampler, the averAge Of the
different samples taken giving $i.15 in Pold.
There have been various estimates of the
amount OF ore in sight. 1t would be diff
cult indeed for al estimates to be 1na@e
with any degree of accuracy. Some, how
ever, have shown more than fifteen thou
sand tons of the aVerG%e value Of $3.50 per
ton The rold is free bnt the clay and
nSrv rlatr'.. roeate for sa,.inp the gold
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W hen the first great strike was made, and
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efty ~ per ton III Golu WIS saved.
cu,INNr,x a,orp
The property of Messrs LYONS, McGin.
McOmie aud Underhill, ia situated on Ault,
man hill, adioiniup the Aultman mine on
the west aud the Joanna No 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 Chainmnn and Chairman
Gore mines. The entrance to the mine is
through large tunnel which taps the
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