The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-03-13


Joanna MINE,
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 MIR.
Watsonoperated 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 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 a cave was encountered ana
the ore vein was also reached. From TINS
point an incline forty-five feet in depth
was sunk. At the bottom OF the incline a
drift was driven one hundred and twenty
FIVE feet to the cast, and also another thlr-
ty-fiye 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 arc other extensive
works, in which n large amount OF drifting
aud sinking has been done and u quantity
Of good ore was exposed. A great many
tons OF ore were milled from this portion
OF the mine with fair results. From a
statement OF facts regarding the Joanna
mine, prepared by the Hon. Thos. Wren OF
Eureka, Nesada, the following quotation
Is made: 1.-The ore was reduced at u small
ten stamp water mill at the town of Ely,
about three miles from the mine. The mill
is noorly constructed and the only applt-
ances Tor 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 tailines. Approx
mately seven dollars u ton was saved by
this process, as shown by the returns by
Watson under oath to the assessor OF White
PINT county, for the purpose oil taxation.
This would give, adding the gold lost in
the tailings, an average of fourteen dollars
n 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
tance further to the west there is a tunnel
one hundred and fifty feet in lenPth that
cross-cuts the ledge. The whole length o
the tunnel Is 10 ledge matter. Some time
ago this tunnel was sampled in sections by
an experienced sampler, the AVERAGE OF the
different samples taken giving Si,l5 In gold.
There have been various OF the
amount of ore in SIGHT. 1t would be dill
cult indeed for all estimates to lie MADE
with any degree OF accuracN. Some, how
ever, have sho.tn moro than fifteen thou
sane tons OF the aVeraPe value OF Si2.5U per
ton. The gold is free bnt the clay AMI
oxide of iron require more than the ordi-
nary pletc ,rocess for saving the pold.
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CRAFTSMAN GROUP.
The property OF Messrs. Lyons, McGill,
McOmie and Inecrhill, is situated on Ault-
man Hill, adjoining the Aultman mine on
the west and the JoupH No. 2 on the south
The groupi is composed OF five mines, which
are the Chairman Chainman Gore, Turkey V
Southern Cross-ah adiacentto other. The
development work upon the group is most
ly done upon the Chairman and Chairman
Gore mines. The entrance TO the mine is