The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-06-05

/ Whose rich ore attracted so mi 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
and exposed on the west end OF the mine
| for q 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 tunnel sixty feet in length, at
which point a cave was encountered anu
the ore vein was also reached. From this
| point an incline forty-fye 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-five feet to the north. Several cross uts
| 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 a large amount of drifting
and 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
mine prepared by the Hon. Thos. Wren OF
Eureka, Me- ada, the following quotation
is made: 1.-The 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 appli-
ances for 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 tailings. APPROX
mately seven dollars a 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.
10, -,,tt1d ,rir add n
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 IA 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 SAL i'll 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, how
ever have shoTn 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 ordl-
nary plate process for saving the Pold.
The Joana 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 it was mine OF unusual
merit. LITIGATION began which ran through
the courts for a term OF several yeats NJ
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 number OF
MINING men visited he Joana at various
times and made examinations o. the prop
erty II is generally believed that tho
property met their expectations aud was
satisfactory; put the law suits stood In the
way until al were tire on. lad !! me-
seen for this uafurtuun.c abTiT u Tcu.a
20 doubt, be one OF the ,ree pro l1ce.S -
The day. and the district OF iiopirs n
would lie in quite diferen- condition.
The Joanna mine Is -low me propec :!
Messrs, Hip, wen Cheney. SsGle, 40
Jao kSon. These gentlemen own a rliinl'er
% mines in the district.
Joanna NO. =,
The property Of Hcssrs. Disregard. House.
Lawson. Hip and others, adioins the 10
ans on tn. west. There has been cOnsia-
cradle work done, hut not sufficient 20
dcYclop the value of the claim. In the
| deepest working they have some good ore
| the 'ume US the Joanna in character Out
| of IL number Of tons milled from this prop
erty 81 per ton in gold was saved.
cHAIHMAN GROUP
The property of Messrs Lyons. McGin,
McOmie aud Underhill, is situate on Ault-
man hill, adjoining the Aultman mine on
| the west and the Joanna No. on the south
| The groupis composed of five mines, which
are the Chairman Chairman Gore. Turkey V
Southern Cross-al. adjacentto other. The
development work upon the group ismost-
| ly done upon tt Chairman and Chairman
Gore mines. The entrance to the mine is
through large tunnel which taps the
ledge at a point 800 feet from the mouth of
| the tunnel, and 125 from the surface. At
the point of intersection made by the tun-
mel and ledge lateral drift has bsen run
tn ha AZ a n
| lateral drift has beeD run to the east 70 feet
to II Wine which extends down to a second
or lower level of the mine, a distance of
leo feet below the tnnnel or first level.
Thus it will be seen the total depth at this
point is 227 feet. Going back to point
where the lateral drift Sest leaves the
tunnel II distance ofsiXty feet to west in the
drift 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 he thirty feet wide. Forty feet further
to the west, in the Lateral drift, there is a
stope to the south where some ore has been
extracted and reduced at the Chairman
mill, which averaged S11 per ton. There is
an opening to the surface 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. Tho ore stope
extends along the lateral drift to the west,
a 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
Sc 80 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 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
is So pert on in gold. The ledge at this point