The Alaska daily empire., 1915-10-15
5000 TON MILL NOW
 UNDER WAY


 Plans for the immediate construc- uoa of on s.oOo-ton BaIl-typo mill for the AlaskaJuueau Gold Mining Com pany are beginning to be carried out. The mm win be practically on Ju- neau's doorstep. and with the return here of T. H. Mackenzie. one of the stockholders. and Charles E. Bruff. min constructor, details of the "open- ing up" program Of the AlaskaJuneau aro learned for the first time.
 Mr. Mackenzie outlined the com pany's plans in an interview with The Empire last night The program calls for a great power plant which is to be bunt just west of the company's oflIces on Lower Front Street. the steady development of the ore body, In the mine. and the perfection of the haulage system. in order to be ready for operation not later than January -i. 1917.
 Plans Arc Made Up
 The plans Of the mill was brought to Juneau by Mir. Mackenzie and Mir. Brru. Tho design is the work of tho San Francisco engineering nrm of Bradley. Bruff G Labarthe, two of whose members. c. F. Bruff and George O. Bradley, designed and con- structed the Alaska Gasineau Min ing Company's mill at Thane
 The mills capacity, when fully com pleted. win be 5000 tons in 2l hours. It win consist Of gyratory No. g crushers. two large Blake-type jaw erushers. to pulyerize the oversize rock. and twelve bah mills. 6 feet long and 8 feet in diameter. There win be twelve tube mills for regriud- ing. each of which wnl be 7x10 feet in dimensions. Forty-elght roughing tables and one hundred and twenty two finishing tables are to be installed although the type has not yet been agreed upon. as the tests have not been completed. The process through out tho mill win be one of straight concentration.
 The mill. like the Alasha-Gastineau plant. Is to be of four sections. Of 1000 tons capacity each. The first unit will be in operation by January ]. 1917, # the program is fulfilled, with the three additional sections in operation not later than March l. 1917. Mr. Bruff will have complete charge of the mil construction. and is assembling his force of workers at the present time.
 The 50-stamp pilot mill, which wac built two years ago. will probably bel used as CD extension of the new mill. It eventually will be standardized, with tho ball min equipment The pilot miil was built after the pattern of tho Treadwen mills. with vanners.
 The Power 7ians
 According to Mir. Mackenzie. the power plant win consist of two 5000 kilowatt turbo generators. one of which wlii be O reserve. The plant win be located on the beach. not far from a 55.0o0barrel oil tank The site is just west Of the Alaska-Juneau offices. Work on the grading for the power plant and the on tanks has already started.
 All grading for the coarse-crushing plant. general mill and tanks win be glarted at once. The company is commencing to hire men. although the crew will be added gradually, and at the present time the local labor market will be fully able to supply The construction demands.
 eve are not going to employ sev- eral hundred men an at once" said Mr. Mackenzie. we have no gigantic program to carry out-it will be grad ual development; we do not want men to come here with the idea that we have work for an of them"
 alr. Mackenzie declared that eyen- tually. the uncompleted administra- ton building just east Of the Juneau Iron Works will be completed. eve win have no use for the offices until