The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-05-15

ON whit is known rs Aultman Hill.
just below and adjoining the Ault-
man on tile north is the
Joanna MINE,
Whose rich ore attracted so m, 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
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 and
the ore vein was also reached. From this
point an incline forty-flve feet in depth
was sunk AT the bottom OF the incline
drift was driven one hundred and twenty
Ave feet to the east, and also another thir
ty-five feet to the north. Several CROSSE 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 large amount of drifting
of good ore was exposed. great many
tons of ore were milled from this portion
Of the mine with fair results. From a
statment of facts regarding the Joanna
mine, prepared by the Hon. Thos. Wren of
Eureka, Nevada, 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
Il, I'D nd nfa1x IL
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 bv
Watson under oath to the assessor of White
Pine county, for 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- 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 a tunnel
one hundred and fifty feet in lenPth 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 &.15 in gold
There have been various estimates of the
amount of ore in sight. 1t would be diff
cult indeed for all estimates to be made
with any degree of accuracy Some, how
ever, have shown more than fifteen thou
sand tons of the average value of $l2.50 per
ton. The gold is free but the clay and
oxide of iron require more than the ordi-
nary plate process for saving the gold.
The Joana mine has been unfortunate, 1t
has suffered as many min $ have before it:
When the first great strike was made, and
il was known that it was q mine of unusual
merit, litigation began which ran through
the courts for g term OF several years at
great expense and annoyance to the owner
The property was tied up and could not be
united until the judgment Of the conrt was
had During this litigation number Of
mining men visited Jie Joanna at various
times and made examinations 0. the prop
erty. 1t is generally believed that the
property met their expectations and was
sa satisfactory; mt the law sGiis stood in the
way until all were tired oui Had i! nor
been for this unfortunate ahar /. wOu,c
no doubt, he one o. the isree producers ~
the day, and the district OF i,ohirsof
would Ie in quite difsrsn. ccadi ioT.
The Jcana miae Is now me proper Q.
Mcssrs, iIilp, wrer Gheney, sa,iet m
o. mines in tho district.
Joanna NO. ..
The property of Ifessrs. ostergard. House
Lawson, Hip and others, adjoins the 10
ana on the west. There Inns been consid-
cradle work done, hut not sufficient to
develop the value of the claim. In the
deepest working they have some good ore,
of II number of tons milled from this prop
erty 81 per ton in gold was saved.
CHAIRMAN GROUP,
The property OF Messrs. Lyons. McGill,
McOmie and Underhill, is situate on Ault-
man hill, adjoining the Aultman mine on
the west and the Joanna No. 2 on the south
The group Is composed of five mines. which
are the Chairman Chairman Gore Turkey V
Southern Cross-al. adjacent to other The
development work upon the 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 at point 500 feet from the mouth of
the tunnel, and l25 from the surface. At
the point of intersection made by the tun-
mel and ledge u lateral drift has bsen run
to the west a distance of 500 feet; also, n
lateral drift has been run to the east rs feet
to a Wine which extends down to a second
or lower level of the mine, a distance of
100 feet below the tnnnel or first level
Thus 1t will he seen the total depth at this
point is 227 feet. Going back to a point
where the lateral drift Sest leaves the
tunnel distance of sixty 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 be thirty feet wide. Forty feet further
to the west, in the Lateral drift, there is II
slbpe w sOutn NHtTe sO1lt ore Has Dteu
extracted and reduced at the Chairman
mill, which averaged sl1 per ton. There is
an opening to the surface a 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 II 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 20 feet wide. The ore stope
extends along the lateral drift to the west,
distance Of fifty feet to another crosscut
to the north, and shows the ledge to be
twenty-four feet wide. The crosscut is not
entirely across the ledge. An average gives