The Alaska citizen., 1910-09-05
QUARTZ ERA COMMENCES

The Cinema Milling. Smelling and Refining Company has issued a draft prospectus. in which is outlined the possibilities of the company as a means of demonstrating the value of the camp as quartz producer and at the same time give a fair return to those who have invested their money in the enterprise
 The company is incorporated under the laws of Alaska.
 The capital stock of the company amounts to the sum of $25.O00, of which sum $1t.4oo has already been paid in cash and $5.o00 will be paid for by quartz men out of the proceeds of their rock crushed at the mill. The balance of $7600 still re mains to be taken up by those who desire the stock.
 The provisional directors are: F. W. Griffin, Martin Harrais and II. E. Gardner. The regular board and off cers will be elected at the next meet ing of the stockholders.
 The objects of the company are stated in the prospectus to be two: Ca) 10 erect a ten stamp mill and cOncentrator for the custom milling of quartz, and (b) to sample and purchase ore in lots where too small for a mill run.
 The equipment consists of Josh ua Hendy new and improved ten stamp mill, in two batteries of five stamps each. The stamps weigh l, ,OOO pounds each. and are of the same pattern as those used in the Treadwell and Perseverance mines. There is one Blake rock crusher with SKIP jaws, three Deister con, centrating tables of the latest i'm proved style. with Classifier and set ting tank. A complete assaying and sampling outfit is included, and a full line of extra shoes, dies, cams. and stems, and other parts,
 The mill has been bought and paid for, most of the parts have already arrived at Cinema and the remainder is en route on the steamer Healy. which is expected daily.
 For the site of the mill, a tract of about five acres has been secured, embracing the rocky bluff and the level strip of land between the bluff and the Panama river bank at the lower end of the town of Cinema.
 The bluff affords the necessary solid rock foundation for the stamps and the hillside location gives the required gravity system necessary for economic milling. The river gives plentiful water supply, and the tailingS can be run directly into the river and carried away An abundant fuel supply will be accorded by way of the river, and coal will be ob tainable there when coal mines shall bC opSh'u III tiiN iuIuiC, NiiCI smelling ores shall be developed smelling may be done The site is also favorable for the handling oi ores from other districts along the river and it's tributaries There is abundant room for increasing the mill as the needs arise A spur ol the Panama valley railroad has al ready been completed to the mill The site is considered ideal.
 The building is to be 46x72 feet built in three stories up the bluff The frame work on the building is complete and work is progressing rapidly. It is expected the entire plant will be completed and ready for operation by the first of October The power consists of 60-horse power boiler, installed inside the building on the lowest floor. This will supply steam for two engines one of 45-horsepower, to drive the stamps and rock crushers, and the other of 5-horsepower for the con centrators, etc. The boiler being in l side the building proper will supply