The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-01-02

man ON the north is the
Joanna MINE,
Whose rich ore attracted so mi at
tention about IT, ,ee 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
aud exposed on the west cHd 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 to
what is known rs the cave, Is reached
through tunnel sixty feet in length, at
which point Il cave was encountered and
the ore vein was also reached From this
point an incline forty-tye 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-iive feet to the north Several cross, nts
were made ct 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. great many
tous OF ore were milled from this portion
OF the mine with fair results. From
statnont OF facts regarding the Joana
mine, prepared by the Hon. Thos Wren of
Eureka, Nevada, the folio wing quotation
is made: "The ore was reduced at u small
ten stamp water mill ut the town Of Ely,
about three miles from the mine. The mill
is poorly constructed and the only aprli-
ances for saving gold were copper plates
Less than one-half the gold was saved by
this mode of working, rs was shown by
constant assays OF the tailinPs. APPROX
mately seven dollars ton vas saved by
this process, az shown by the returns bv
Watson under oath to the assessor Of White
Pine county, for the purpose OF taxation.
This would give, addinp the gold lost in
the tailings, an average OF fourteen dollars
A ton in the ore worked. The amount Tux
en- out in the aggregate WAS something
over fifteen thousand dollars The exact
figures are on record in the Office OF the
assesso" Of White Pine county" Some dis
lance iurther to the west there is II tunnel
one hundred and fifty feet in length thaJ
cross cuts the ledge. The whole length Of
the tunnel is in ledge matter. Some time
ago this tunnel was sampled in sections by
an experienced sampler. the averape Of the
different samples taken giving S415 in Pold
There have been various estimates of the
amount OF ore in sight. 1t would be diff
cult indeed for all estimates to he mace
with any degree OF accuracy. Some, how
ever, have shoHn more thhn fifteen thou
sand tons of the average value OF SEQ per
ton. The gold is free bnt the clay and
oxide of iron require more than the ordi-
nary plate process Tor saving the Fold
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CHAIRMAN GROUP,
The property of Messrs. Lyons, McGill,
McOmie aud unGerhill, is situatea on Ault-
man hill, adjoining the Aultman mine on
the west ana the Joanna No. on the south
The group is composed OF five mines which
are the Chaiuman Chairman Gore. Turkey
southern Cross-an adjacentto other The
development WORK upon tae group Is most
ly done upon the Chairman and Chairman
Gore mines. The entrance to the mine is
through large tunnel, which taps the
ledge al a point 800 feet from the mouth Of