The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-10-26
SLOW ARRIVAL OF MACHINERY
 HOLD UP WORK
Unable to Do Usual Amount of Milling
 Due to Lack of Parts
(Cordova Times)


 The regular quarterly report of the Nabesna Mining Corporation has been received by stockholders of the mine and shows only small amount of milling during the period from July l to September 30, as compared to similar periods in the past Only l,002 tons of ore were treated as compared to an average of 5000 to 4,000 tons in the past. The falling off in production is due entirely, the report states, to the slowness in the arrival of new equipment from the factory A very important piece of machinery was ordered in May and has only recently been received.
 Following is MT. Carl Whitham's summary of the quarters work:
 The 1902 tons of mine ore milled was taken from the 250 and $50 lev el stopes. A small amount, however, came from development mining work done on the 450 and $50 levels of the mine. Owing to mechanics strike at the Oliver Filter Company their shipment to us of Dorrco Filter, very important in our treat ment process, has not yet been re- ceived. This piece of equipment is now enroute and will be installed and the mill put into production in a few days 0t is understood the equipment has recently arrived Ed) The new equipment already received and installed this summer has been operated sufficiently to put 1t into good working condition and our new setup when completed by the filter addition will give US more efficiency and greater mill ca pacity than we have had in the past. It is now expected that approxi- mately 50 per cent of our gold pro- duction will be in the form of gold bullion and recovery will be 90 per cent or better.
 Mining development work has been carried on continuously during this quarter. An accident occurred to our larger size compressor unit and this compressor was not in op- eration for nearly six weeks await ing the arrival of new air pump block from the factory. A long de- lay in getting shipment from the factory of this repair part greatly retarded our mine development work. This compressor is now re- paired and our mining work is pro- gressing much faster. Work by hand drilling was done on vein that outcrops on the surface some dis tance to the south and west of the 250 foot level workings A tunnel was driven in on this vein for 125 feet, giving vertical depth of over 100 feet. A small body of ore was found in this tunnel assays show ing values from a few dollars to over $3600 a ton. Work done ex- tending the $50 level drift to the north along the contact ore zone has opened up ore bodies several feet wide that carry values of $15 to $20 per ton.
 Ample supplies are on hand and diesel oil and gasoline available to carry on operations continuously all winter at the mine and mill Upon completion of our new mill equipment installation in the next few days, treatment will be started in the cyanide section of the mill of the concentrates that have been stored for that purpose during the past year There are approximate ly 2,000 tons on hand of these cy- aniding concentrates with an aver age value of over $4000 per ton It will be possible for us to treat these at the rate of 25 tons per 24 hours producing gold bullion
 The value of the ore treated at the mill heads averaged $12.76 ton and recovery was 915 per cent. The gross value of mill production from mine ore during the quarter was S11 .698.80