The Alaska daily empire., 1921-12-08
MASON OUTLINES PLANS FOR THE
 COMING SEASON
President of Alaska Endicott Expects to Have Mill Op-
 erating by August l.

The date of the actual dropping of stamps on ore, at the Alaska Endicott Mining Company mill at William Henry Bay, Lynn Canal, is placed at about August 1, next year, by Charles w. Mason, President of the company who arrived in the city yesterday from an inspection trip of the mining property.
 According to MT. Mason the mill building is complete and the machin- cry practically installed for 15 stamps The line shafts are in, the mortars and stamps in place and but little remains to be done before the mill will be ready to run. The right of way for the tramming road has been graded from the mouth of the tramming tunnel to the mill build ing and there only remains the steel to be laid and some snow sheds to be built.
 On April 1, Mir. Mason said to- da, the company will put crew of men on the Kensington and Comet properties across Lynn Canal from William Henry Bay The company has purchased the surface equipment of these two abandoned mines and it will be moved to William Henry Bay There is 20 stamp mill com plete at he Kensington and parts of this are to be used in equipping the company's mill. Railroad iron from the Kensington and Comet will be used in equipping the tramway. Al though men will be able to get to the old mines to work in dismantling April 1 MT. Mason said he thought it would be a month or two later before it would be possible to move the equipment across the canal.
 Thinks Will Pay.
 With our natural physical ad- vantages for the cheap handling of ore, it is my opinion that we can make money with copper at the present price of about 13 cents a pound" Mr Mason said today, "as besides carrying a high per cent of copper our ores run from four to fourteen dollars in gold and five dollars, per concentrate ton in sill yer" he continued, with the rise in the price of copper we will make more money in proportion to the raise"
 MT Mason said that a small crew of men would be retained through the winter on prospect tunneling and in getting out timbers for the building of snow sheds. Over 2,000 Of al vi the property and the mine is at stage right now to deliver enough rock to keep the fifteen stamp mill operating.
 Milling System.
 The milling system as briefly de- scried by A. F. Richards, mine superintendent, is to be as follows:
 The ore is to be delivered from the mine to the mill in two ton side dump cars over a $50 foot level track. It is dumped from the cars into jaw crusher where 1t is crushed to two inches in size It then goes into the 250 ton capacity mill bin.
 From the bin it is fed under 1000 pOunu, Stecl frame stamps ana then forced through a 20 mesh screen. It is sent to Wilfy tables and the over flow from these goes to Callow cones with syphon discharges The clear overflow from the cones passes on and the underfow from them goes to an eight cell Ruck type flota- tion machine. The Notation concen- trates and the table concentrates will go into the same treadling tank and handled together.
 The concentrates which will con tain from 22 to 23 per cent copper and from S10 to $15 a ton gold and some silver. will be shipped from the mill to the shelter. Quicksilver treated plates will be added to the milling process to catch the gold if necessary. l. ater the two settling cones may be replaced by a Dorr thickner and the settling tank by an Oliver Filter.
 Fifteen stamps will be the first equipment used but this may be re- placed in time by more stamps or ball mills. The tonnage that will be treated by the fifteen stamp mill is estimated at from 45 to 50 tons day.
 The Alaska Endicott Mining