Seward daily gateway., 1925-08-17
ALASKA HILLS MINES CORPORATION
 PLAN INSTALLING ANOTHER MILL SOON
Only Mill Operating in the Nuka Bay District Now Run ming Full Blast With Day and Night Crews-New
 Cyanide Tanks Will Be Built on Property
Venture Is Decided Success-Crew of Ten Men En- pl0yed Main Tunnel Is Driven for Distance of
 Over Three Hundred Feet Tapping Rich Ore

During the last ten days the Alaska Hills Mines Corporation at Nuka Bay has been doing very we'll, according to J. D. Andrews, general manager, and in probabilities property will de- clare dividend this fail Q: in the spring, providing no trouble is en- countered in the milling operations. The mill work was started May z5. then shut down for period while changes were made, operations stars- ing again the latter part of June. Since that time operations have been car- ried on full blast 24 hours day, eA- cepting the brief time it takes to dress the plates. It is anticipated that under the existing conditions an additional mill will be installed on the property next year. The present mill in all likelihood will be closed down about December i, on account of the freezeup, but tunnel work will continue all winter, Manager An drews said.
 Plating s1oo per Day
 From an elevation of approximately 800 feet 1900 foot aerial gravity tram with two 5O0-pound buckets run down from the main tunnel to the upper ore bin where it is automatically dumped To1- 1yit the ore flows to the lower Blake crusher of 9 ton capacity, thence into the Warrington Ball mill. This mill operates with a scoop feed thru a spiral screw into the ball chamber where it is discharged by reverse spi- ral onto the amalgamating plates.
 From the plates the ore passes to the drag c1assifier where the coarse ore is carried back for regrinding in the mill The fine ore pa sses through a 4O-mesh screen, then to the second plate and lastly to the Dester con- centrating table. A small cyanide plant, which will soon be under con- struction will clean approximately 12 tons of tailings day. Practical tests recently made resulted il the recoy. cry of nearly $40 a ton from the tail ings.
 Expert MetaIlurgicai Man H. V. Henrikson, metallargical en- gineer, in charge of the mill, did much of the installation last fall. returning this season to the property from Will low Creek where he was employed in the Fern mill in a like capacity. He is credited with being one of the few expert mill men in the Territory. The company has just shipped into the property complete laboratory which will be set up and conducted by MT. Henrikson, who heretofore has been making tests from a small homemade laboratory.
 Mir. Henrikson stated the mill is plating around S100 a day but that the principal indignation is made inside the mill where it has been de- termined that 75 per cent is accom- plished, the remainder passing on to the plates. The maximum tonnage of ore runs through is placed at F tons day.
 Abundance of Waterpower Lumber for the construction of three cyanide tanks was. shipped to the mine last week and their con- 1 struction will begin immediately. It is. expected a high percentage cf gold will be recovered from the tailings.
 Ample waterpower to operate anoth. l CT mill of the same size Is procured from nearby stream high oa the mountain side, which has been dam tmed and from which 1000 feet of wood pipe two feet in diameter conveys the water to the mill where ft is run through sixty inch PeIton water