The Nome daily nugget., 1913-10-20
FREEDOM FOR
 MINE WORKERS

JUNEAU. Alaska. President F. w. Bradley. of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company. announced the def '. mite plans of his company so far as its relations with Junueau are concerned and gave an outline of it's industrial scope. The Alaska Juneau company is to be operated on the same plan as the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine in Idaho. The men are to be independent live where they please, board where they like. and spend their money where they like and how they like. The com. papy will maintain no boArding houses nor living apartments for its crews.
 There will be no company stores nor places of amusement. The men are to be incouraged in their independence to the end that they become identified with the communities interests and be. come a social unit of the community rather than a mere cog in the wheel of one industry.
 Mir. Bradley says he has found from experience that better results are ob- tained in this way. not only for the men. but for the community in which they live and for the industry in which they are employed. He has announced that the first unit of the great reduc- ton plant would bein operation dur ing the month of December of this year and that the increasing of the plant would continue. keeping pace with the mine development until it reached its maximum capacity of l2,0O0 tons daily.
 The Alaska Juneau mines adjoin both the Perseverance mines and the Ebner mines and have been under de- ,elopment and operation for several years, working from the top down and milling the ores with a small mill The future method is to work on a large and economic scale, such as that adopted by the Alaska Gastineau Min ing Company. which is developing the Perseverance mines.
 The first unit of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company's great ore re- duction plant will be in operation by December The rock house is already practically completed and the tearing away of debris for mill foundations ;s progressing rapidly. The entire reduc- tion plant will contain, when com pleted. four units, or four l5O-stamp mills. Each of these stamp mills will have an. auxiliary of fifteen Chilean mills. and will use thirty roughing tables and forty-fve concentrating tables.
 Each unit will have capacity of 5000 tons of ore each day, or 1000, ,OO0 tons during each years run. When the plant reaches it's full capacty it will mill 12,000 tons of ore daily, or 4,00O,- 600 tons each year.
 Ore shoots on the Alaska Juneau property are 500 feet in width and are said to contain 241.OOO, 900 tons of ore above the present tunnel levels. These levels are now considerably more than 400 feet above sea level.
 The main tunnel of the mine has an altitude of 420 feet at it's portal and is 6.700 feet long, rising to 47O feet at its inner terminal. At this point a raise of 800 feet is now being made that will penetrate Silver Bow casin. The main tunnel was completed few weeks ago and the raise is now under way and progressing at the rate of eight to ten feet each day. From tho portal of the tunnel traffic line is provided along the mountain side for the transportation of both ore and water.
 A small gasoline motor engine will dray the ore cars for the present and 4x4 Hume parallels the rails, carry ing water for the mills The small tunnels are encountered, and one tun- nei. 2.260 feet in length. pierces Mount