The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-05-08

| tentlOn aDOnb I'll -cc years dSo' 10
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 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 II tunnel sixty feet in length, at
which point q cave was encountered and
the ore vein was also reached. From this
point an incline forty-iive feet IN depth
was sunk At the bottom of the Incline
drift was driven one hundred and twenty
Ave feet to the cast, and also another thir-
ty-iiye feet to The north. Several cross uts
we're 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
aud sinking has been done and quantity
tons of ore were milled from this portion
of the mine with fair results. From q
stat,nent of facts regsrdinp the JOana
mine, prepared by the Hon. Thos. Wren OF
Eureka, Neiada, 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 appl-
anees 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 tailings. APPROX
mately seven dollars II 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 oil taxation.
| This would give, adding the gold lost III
| the tnflings an average of fourteen dollars
| a tns, in n orc
en- ont in the aggregate was something
over fifteen thousand dollars. The exact
figures are on record in the Office of the
assassO- OF White Pine county" Some dis
lance further to the west there is tunnel
orc hundred and fifty feet in leuPrh that
cross-cuts the ledge. The whole length
the tunnel il in ledge matter. Some time
ago this tunnel Ta7 sampled in sections by
an experienced pier the average of the
| different samples taken giving si,15 i'll Pold.
There have been various estimates OF the
amount of ore i'll sight. 1t would be diili-
cult indeed for all estimates to be mace
with any degree OF accuracy. Some, how
ever, have sho.su more than fifteen thou
sand tons of the averare value of $3.50 per
| ton. The gold is free hut the clay aud
oxide eff iron reQnire more than the ordi-
nary plate process Tor saving the gold.
The JoanA mine has been unfortunate, 1t
has suffered ne many min have before II:
| When the first great strike was made, and
il was known ti'at it was mine Of unusual
merit .-litip6tio began which ran through
the conrts for term of several years ut
great expense and annoyance 20 the owner
TIE property was tied mp and could not be
united until the Judgment Of the court was
had. Duriug this LITIGATION number OF
mining men visited he Joanna ut various
times aad made examinations o. tn prop
erty 1t is generally believed that the
propertv met their expectations and was
satis fariory: nut the law stiiF stood in the
why untn all w"r4 Urea ou.. !'Hd !, nQ'
teen Tor this unt"?.uaa5e Ahs'r /; veto
-. 1t In. n = rI o.
}he fay, and tn district az l9"insnr
would he in quiee di'ter n cc7di '2a
tins .ioan4 min y a"~ ne rEH@":. Ct
Mtssrs, Hip, A''n .nenct. Sat!tt NJ
Jackson. These geNjieIni :: UE1 4 y ,inher
% mines in the district.
Joanna No. .,
Tho rroperty Of Hossrs Ostereard, House.
Lt.wspn. Hin md others. adioin< the 10
anH 81 the west There hos been cpnsid-
eraile work done, hut not sGi'ici7ut 90
aet clop me value OF the claim IN ihc
/ inartsSt Wori.iu@ they have some gnOd ore.
the i..nic Us the .Ioun& in churHctcr. Ont
u Number Of tens milled from this prop
crty S ilel ,or, III gold was saved.
cHAINMAE GROUP,
The ;irercrty Of Mcssrs. LYONS, McGiu,
Mcomio and rnderhill, is situate on Ault-
! man HILL adjoining the Aultman ninc on
the west and the Joanna No. on the south
The Proupis composed Of five mines, which
/ iN,I '
Southern Cross-al adjacent to other. The
development ork upon the group is most
ly done upon tie 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 1875 from the surface At
the point of intersection made by the tun-
mel and ledge It lateral drift has been run
to the west q distance of 800 feet; also, a
lateral drift has been run to the east rs feet
to Il Wine which extends down to q 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 feet. Going hack to point
! where the lateral drift vest leaves the
tunnel 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
10 he thirty feet wide. Forty feet further
to the west, in the lateral drift, there is Il
Slope to the south where some ore has been
extracted and reduced at the Chainman
mill, which averaged 81 per ton. There is
an opening to the surface a distance OF
something more than 100 feet through the
roof OF the stope, which is in ore all the
way. On the opposite side of the drift
there is a crosscut to the north. The dis
lance taken from the back of the stcpe
and 70 the end of tte crosscut shows the
ledge to be ~ feet wide. The ore stope
extends along the lateral drift to the west,
Il distance Of fifty feet to another crossCut
to the north, and shows the ledge to be
twent E-fOnr feet wide. The crosscut is not
entirely across the ledge. An average gives
II 30 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 n 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 ST. pert on in gold. The ledge at this point
il sh own to be los feet wide. Twenty feet