The Alaska citizen., 1910-08-29
MILL INCREASES
 ITS USEFULNESS

Another proof of the future stability of the Fairbanks district. as quartz producing camp is the enlargement of The Citizens Quartz Mill" A mill planned and built through subscrip- ton by the public spirited people of Fairbanks, to enable the prOspector. through their local mill. to find out exactly what their ore can be worked al to their advantage. An addition is now being built to house thorough ly up-to-date concentrator, which has co. IL is designed on the very lat est pattern of the table couCcntratOr, and has all the latest qualities of say ing the concentrates, which have been hitherto practically wasted i'll the tailings. Concentrates averaging along the S200 mark have been i'll the past dumped onto the tailing dump. and the acquisition of a CouccntratOr. such as We will be able to boast of within the next few days, is q matter that the most skeptic of knockers tof which every camp has q few will buckle down, and own up to the fact that the quartz prospects of the Fairbanks district. is now Oil it's ascent 10 the height of a camp 10 which the whole world will look to- ward
 The mill has hitherto been run as q sampling mill, with absolutely no charge 10 the prospector or mine operator of sample runs of under three tons, and has been practically ill no condition to handle custom ore. as il has been using 40 and 5O mesh screen; but after the con centrator is installed. which will be on the first or second of September, coarse screen will be able to be used and the output of tonnage will thereby be materially increased
 Also notable and not at all unim- portant result of this improvement is the ability of saving on an average of 90 per cent. of the concentrates which as before stated, went to the dump, a very discouraging condition the prospector had to contend with But the net result of this improve ment will be a scurry to the hills, and the cry will be Quartz" An i'm petus will thus be gained, that will tend to bring the quartz mines of the district before Us more forceably and emphatcally, and put them on a working basis, upon which they would have been but for the fact of the inability to work the ore To- cally and save an enormous expense, entailed when shipping the same to the outside mills.
 To get an idea of the thoroughness of the method of sampling and mill ing the ore at the Citizens quartz milla onn Gardend Island, an assay on the tailings from Tolovana ore was
 in one instance $2.63 per ton and another Sl.62 per ton; which ill itself will show the advantage accrued by the operation of sampling mill such as we have in our midst, It is a mill, not run as a commercial, but as sampling mill, but as time ar rives it will be increased to such a size as occasion will warrant The mill is under the supervision of a mill man of tried experience, man who has studied and worked in and about quartz the better part of his life. The management is under such businessmen as Joe Mathews, H. l.. Gardner, and Geo. A. Hunter, men who are noted for their integrity, perseverance and honor. With such men at the helm the prospector need have no fear as to what the out | come of the run on their quartz ore | the Fairbanks district has never shown up so brightly in all it's exist | ance, as it does at the present time, and with its increasing facilities of handling quartz we shall see more men in the field after the same than | heretofore in the history of the | Fairbanks district l