The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-04-24

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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 feet 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
| what is known as the cave, is reached
through a tunnel sixty feet in length, at
which point cave was encountered ana
the ore vein was also reached. From this
point an incline forty-hve feet in depth
was sunk. At the bottom Of the incline
drift was driven one hundred and twenty
| five feet to the cast, and also another th1r-
| ty-five feet TO the north. Several cross-rnts
were 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
and sinking has been done and quantity
of good ore was exposed, great many
| tons of ore were milled from this portion
of the mine with fair results. From
| statment of facts regarding the Joanna
mine prepared by the Hon. Thos. Wren Of
Eureka, Nevada, the following quotation
|
| 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 for saving gold were copper plates.
Less than one-half the gold was saved by
| this mode of working, us was shown by
| constant assays of the tailings. 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 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
| assessor OF White Pine county" Some dis
| lance further to the west there is tunnel
| one hundred and fifty feet in length thar
| 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 aver0Pe of the
| different samples taken giving $i.l5 in gold.
| There have been various estimates of the
| amount OF ore in sight. 1t would be diff
| cult indeed for all estimates to be mace
with any degree OF accuracy Some, now
| ever, have shown more than fifteen thou
| sand tons of the average value OF $3.50 per
| ton. The gold is free bnt the clay and
| oxide of iron require more than the ordi-
nary plate process for saving the gold.
| The Joanna mine has been unfortunate. it
| has suffered as many min have before it.
| When the first great strike was made, and
| ii was known that 1t was Il mine OF unusual
merit LITIGATION began which ran through
| the courts for term of several years at
great expense and annoyance to the owner.
| The property was tied up and could not be
| united until the Judgment of the court was
| had. DURING this litigation a number OF
| times and made examinations o: the prop
erty 1t is generally believed that the
property met their expectations and was
satis factory: nut the law sui siCGd in the
| A W. 1,
| been for this untOrtuHale ntair II r1"id
10 doubt, be one o the ! rec Uroi"'eiS -
the day, ana tHr iistrc. o. 'l"i.rson
| WOuli he in quite : . iE 1rsn. CcGIi 20.
| MeasrS. Hip, WurN Cheney, S1clei an
Jackson. These GaU llGmca oS'a II tainher
OF mines in the district.
JoATA 30 >,
The property Of Messrs. Osiergard, House.
Lawson, lliIp aud others. adioins the Jo-
ana 90 Ute west. Therc has been rcusid-
! cradle work done, but not sufficient to
| develop the yallc OF TIE claim. IN the
deepest workirg they have Some GOOD ore,
| the Iame As the jonua in character. Out
of Il Number Of tons mlled from this prop
| erty 81 per ton in gold was saved.
CuAiNMAH GROUP,
Tho property Of Mcssrs. Lyons, McGil,
| McCmic and Underhll, is situate on Ault-
man hill, adjoining the Aultmau mine on
|
The groups 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 Il Chairman and Chairman
| Gore mines. The entrance to the mine is
| through \ large tunnel, which taps the
| ledge at point 800 feet from the mouth OF
| the tunnel, and l25 from the surface. At
| the point Of intersection made by the tun-
mel and ledge lateral drift has heen run
| to the west distance of 800 feet; also, a
| lateral drift has beep run to the east 70 feet
| to Wine which extends down to 81 second
| or lower level of the mine, a distance of
| loo feet below the tnnnel or first level
Thus it will he seen the total depth ut this
| point is 227 feet Going back to a point
| where the lateral drift Hest leaves the
| tunnel distance of sixty feet to west in the
| drift a crosscut has been made to the SOUTH
| and 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
| stope to the south where some ore has been
mill, which averaged 81 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 II crosscut to the north. The dis
| lance taken from the back of the st~pe
and to the end Of TIE crossout shows the
ledge to be ~ feet wide. Tho ore stope
| extends along the lateral drift to the west
distance OF fifty feet TO another crossout
to the north, and shows the ledge to be
twenty-four feet wide. The crosscut is not
entirely across the ledge. An average gives
| ii % gold 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 u distance of eighty feet
The crosscut to the south has not extended
! entirely across the ledge. The average
value Of the north crosscut is SIG por ton
| in gold. The average in the south crOsscut