The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-06-12

JoANA MINE,
Whose rich ore attracted so MI ! at
tention about IL 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 MIR.
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 distance of three hundred feet which
showed the ledge to be very large. One OF
the principal openings, the one leading 10
what is known as the cave, is reached
through tunnel sixty feet in length, at
which point cave was encountered and
the ore vein was also reached. FROM TINS
point an incline forty-tive 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 thir-
ty-fve feet t. the north. Several eros nts
were mnde at different places. all Of watch
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. A great many
tons of ore were milled from this portion
OF the mine with fair results. From II
Stat nont OF ihcls reghrulnF tns JodhA
mine prepared by the Hon. Thos. Wren OF
Eureka Nevada, the following quotation
is made: 1.-THE ore WAS reduced at Il 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 ny
this mode Of working, as was shown by
constant assays of the tailings. APPROX
mateiy seven dollars ton was saved by
~; pl,n h1 bp rptu nv
Watson under oath to the assessor of White
Pine county, fer 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- ont 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
ono hundred and fifty feet in length that
crcss-cuts the ledge, The whole length o
the tunnel i in ledge matter. Some time
ago this tunnel was sampled in sections by
an experienced sampler, the nveraFe OF The
different samples taken giving Si.lj in pold.
There have been various estimates of the
amount of ore in sight. 1t would be DIM
cult indeed for all estimates to be mace
with any degree OF accuracy Seine, now
ever, have sho.Tu more than fifteen thou
sand tons of the average value OF $3.50 per
ton The gold is Tree bat the clay and
oxide of iron require mere tran the ordi-
nary plate process for saving the gold.
The Iouaa mine has been unfortunate, 1t
has suffered as many min have before ii.
When the first great strike was made, aud
il was known that it was mine OF nnnsnal
merit, litigatio4 began which ran through
thu courts for q term OF several years a.
great expense and annoyance 10 the oWner
The property was tied up aud could not be
united uutil the iuGFment Of the court was
had During this litigation Il rumber OF
mining men visited i,e ioa1a ~ Narlons
tilnee AID mUde examinations o. the crop
erty Vt is generally believed lhat tbs
property met their expectations aud Was
satisfactory; Dnt the law sHila stood IN tn
way until ailswcrs Urea o.. Had ., r.
been for this untortCn" = @t=air i #HH a
"a t.unbt, ae u1u o the i-rsg proiue
lhe day, ana tn 'iatrir1 Of Noti 10
would lie in Quioc 6i'fsr n ccnd. iof
the .IoanA nina Is usW tar pT"n.t5'' y
i isers, Hin, Nrap II aeX. SEc-et ~
Jackson These @en.iea:c" own niiinI'et
d mines in tie district.
JoiHA No. ,,
Tho rrorer;v OF rieryrs. Disregard, House.
Lawson, Hilp and others, adioin9 the 10
,.uA ca The west. i}ere has been consid-
cradle work doEr hut not sufficient TO
Gevcou the value OF tho claim IN the
decpes: WORKING they have some good ore,
the .aIGc as the lGHbN il character. out
Of y nlinber Of tons milled from this prop
erty 81 per ton in gold Wac saved.
CHAIRMAN GROUP,
The property of Messrs. Lyons, McGiu,
McOmic and Underhill is situated on Ault-
man hill, adjoining the Aultman mine on
the west ana the Joana No. 2 on the south
The group is composed OF five mines, which
are the Chairman Chairman Gore. Turkey
Southern Cross-al. adjaccntto other. The
development work upon the group is most
~ done upon tie Chsinman and Chairman
Gore mines. The entrance to the mine is
l. til. I,
ledge al a point 800 feet from the mouth OF
the tunnel, and 1875 from tho surface. At
the point OF intersection made by the tun-
mel and ledge II lateral drift has b5en run
to the west distance of go feer; also,
lateral drift has been run to the east 10 feet
to Winze which extends down to a second
or lower level of the mine, distance OF
leo feet below the tnnnel or first level.
Thus il will be seen the total depth at this
point is 227 seet. Going back to point
where the lateral drift Rest leaves the
tunnel II distance ofsixty feet to west in the
drift IA crosscut has been made to the south,
ana ap OPENING to the north at the same
point, which shows the ledge at this point
to the west, in the lateral drift, there is
stope to the soath where some ore has been
extracted and reduced at the Chainlnan
mill, which averaged 81 per ton. There is
an opening to me surface distance OF
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 ercsscut to the north. The dis
lance taken from the back OF the stcpe
ard to the end OF TIE crosseut shows the
ledge 70 be IL feet wide. The ore stope
extends along the lateral drift to the west,
a distance OF fifty feet to another crosseut
to the north, and shows the ledge to be
twenty-four feet wide. Tie crosscut is not
entirely across the ledge, Ar average gives
Sc 30 pold 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