Show BLUE BIRD IMPROVEMENTS Expected Will Be Sure Shipper By all Special Correspondence Diamond July 5Messrs Hatfeld and Rier have just visitJ the BlueBird Blue-Bird being present wn Superintendent Superinten-dent Bowen gave the rlendid team hoistls Initial run Th ll man as Hatfeld Is called by the force was both surprised and pleased il lnding such a perfect exhibition of Imshcl orl manship In the shaft Ioue gallows frame and engine room Without casting cast-ing any ungenerous reJlcton on other surface buildings In this end the BlueBird Blue-Bird talk have unquestionably surpassed sur-passed all others In point of size and convenience rhe shaa house amid other compartments Included excepting except-ing the boiler room is twerteJ ht fee wide seventy feet bug antI fifty feet In height From the collar of the shaft to the shrive wheel I Is thirtysix feet i The engine Is a geared sIxthorse power the boiler a sevent horsepower horse-power economic pattern The shaft at present Is 240 feet deep and Mr Bowen says it Is the Intention of the management I manage-ment to continue to the 350 before I drifting north on the vein At several dritng II points In sinking before the vein left I them good ore was encountered but no exploiting was done on the mineral During the visit of the priqcipal owners I I thl cable was stretched and greased the bucket hung and the machinery put In motion all of which was wholly satisfactory I I Isfactor to the gentlemen In a few days a force of perhaps twelve or fourteen I four-teen men will be putt to work and sinkIng sink-Ing carried on by three shifts There are folks In this locality who count on the Blue Bird as being a sure shipl r I by fall |