On Monday the new 60 stamps in the Mexican mill will begin dropping for the first time. This will more than double the capacity, from 6,500 to 14,000 tons per month. A new 400-foot tramway was recently completed to carry ore from the mine to the crushers. The new stamps are from Frasier & Chalmers in Chicago, made of chrome steel with Blanton’s patent cams and Challenge self-feeders. They weigh 1,020 pounds each, about 230 pounds more than those of any other mill in Alaska. Each stamp will pulverize about 4 tons of rock per day, about one ton more than the stamps at the Treadwell mill. News of the Gold Camp, Digital Bob Archive
