The Alaska citizen., 1910-11-07


 of the crowd was such as the OC- casion warranted From the creeks in the morning about eighty persons journeyed to Milltown and from Fair banks two trains carried $50 more 10 the celebration. This number was also considerably augmented by those who went down in private con- yeyances and on the regular train at 5:30
 The Millers had done everything possible to rig out their town in festive attire and bunting made every building look gay. Suitable arrange ments had also been made for cater ing 10 the enjoyment of the guests and all expressed themselves as well pleased with the outing. Those who went down on the earlier trains spent the time In sizing up the big business-like looking mill and on all sides were to be heard words or praise for the enterprise of the men who had erected 1t The substantial manner in which the mill Is built was particularly commented on and the economizing of space in It's plan ming has demonstrated that Mir. liar rais had in mind the old adage "A place for everything and everything fin its place" Nearly one hundred thousand feet of lumber has been used in the construction of the edi- flee and 1t certainly looks as If 1t was there to stay. Some idea of the enterprise that has been shown by those who have erected the mill can be gained from the statement that hNi M nininp weigh more than seventy tons. About forty-fve tons were shipped from California. while the boilers and large quantity of piping were obtain ed in Fairbanks.
 When the second train arrived from Fairbanks and the sightseers crowded into the mill it was at once apparent that there would not be room for all to be comfortably ac- commodated to listen to Judge Over fields opening" address, and so an adjournment was taken to the outer premises. Here. standing on plat form erected for the occasion, the judge made most appropriate speech. and al is conclusion re turned inside and started the machinery The judge was intro duced by Mayor Al Birnbaum, of Cinema.
 The stamps were dropped for the first time on the opening day and the water was put In the tank for the first time the day before. Considering the fact that 1t had taken until the last minute to put the mill in shape for the opening and there had been no opportunity to make any tests, the smooth running of the mill re- fleets great credit on Mir. Allan Gun ningham. the superintendent of the mill, and his stan In order to make as complete an exhibit of the mill as possible. one battery was left open for inspection, although both were in readiness to be started. on account of the crowded condition Of the building 1t was considered ad' visable, also. to throw the slime tables out of commission and only the sand table was run. This table was heavily overloaded. and there fore could not do it's work properly
 The ores that come to the mill in the cars on the spur of the Tan ana Valley railroad built for the pur- pose. will be unloaded on the floor Of a storage shed, IS feet wide, and 50 feet long. A sampling floor will be installed in this shed on which the preliminary sampling of the ore will be made. The sample will be reduc- ed on this floor, according to the size of the shipment. to a few hun dred pounds for small shipments, or several tons for larger shipments, This sampling will be done by the Cornish method of coming and quar- tering. After being reduced on this floor the sample will be put through the crusher and taken to the samp- ling room in the assay ofhce. where it will be further reduced to the final assay sample. This sampling room is equipped with small crush CT. disc pulverizer and iron sampling floor and small sampling machine.
 The assay office Is completely equipped with all the necessary ap- paratus and supplies for both fire and wet assays.
 The ore as required will be hoist ed from storage shed and dumped cn the grizzly. The fines go through the grizzly direct to the bin, and the oversize goes to the crusher floor, rom WHICH IL IS oho'OASu AA'o '" lox12 jaw crusher, of the Blake type. The capacity of this crusher is one hundred tons in 24 hours. From the bin the ore falls into chutes leading to the automatic Challenge feeders of the suspended type. These feeders feed the ore to the stamps as required. The pulp as 1t comes from the battery flows over two apron plates. having drop of two inches between them The plates are heavily silvered in order to eliminate the loss of gold by absorp. ton. so that no dispute can arise as would be possible If plain copper plates were used. On rich ores inside chuck block plates and splash plates will be used. The slope of the plate tables can be adjusted to give the best conditions for each ore. The pulp from the plates falls into a trough which contains another cop. per plate. This trough acts as a first amalgam trap. From the trough it flows to two standard Californian amalgam traps and from them il goes to the classifier.
 A stock of different sizes oi screens has been secured and the ore will be crushed as fine as necessary These screens vary from twenty tc sixty mesh.
 The classifer Is the Colorado Iron Works double cone type. The spigot product goes to the sand table. talk ing with 1t any amalgam which may