Show THE BLAGKBD WOUK i Dr Franklin and Mr Gilbert Return From Inspection I I I i WILL SOON BE PRODUCTIVE I I i L Development Work to Be Strongly Pushed Gill S Peyton Returns From Attending the Royal Meeting iI i I i Star Con Assny on Recent Ship I jncnt First Shipment From the Jumbo Shows Very Heavy in Lead Story of HcCune and Early Days of the Pnyne Mining Notes I Dr P A H Franklin and Manager ar i P Gilbert of the Blackbird Copper tiohl Mining company with D W Kimball of Boston yestor < lay returned from a two weeks Inspection of the companys grounds and workings In I Letnhl county Idaho The company holds about fifty claims and is working I work-ing a force of forty men Its operations 4 nt present being confined lo three I claims near the center of the group On the Catherine a shaft has been sunk to the depth of 100 feet and a vein of good copperproducing ore eight feet thick has been uncovered but the machinery will be moved from this claim for the winter about the first of the year to the St Joe where at a depth of 100 feet it is expected to cut n t vein that Is twentyfive feet wide near the surface On the Brown Bear n shaft has been sunk to a depth of 300 feel which after exploring that level a short distance AVlll be driven deeper On this property a vein 300 feet wide produces 3 per cent copper which with depth Is I expected to get narrower l > ut richer The number of men will be materially increased In the spring mid n substantial copper output Is expected ex-pected the coming year They all express ex-press themselves as well pleased with the work that is being done and with the showings that are being developed They also stato that the machinery from the East to Increase the capacity nf the present mill is being taken on the grounds of the Queen of the Hlllst In the same county which was re 44 oontly disposed of under a lease and bond by the Blackbird syndicate to I Sev York capitalists who wilt pro reed to develop that property at once |