The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-01-31
Third CHAPTER
FOR THEFRANKLIN
A. L. cARNAHAN REVIEWS THE
PAST AND COMMENTS ON
PRESENT AND FUTURE
OF THE PROPERTY.

The resumption OF rock shipment
from Franklin this week on a larg,
scale Is the beginning OF the thir,
chapter in the companys long his.
tory Regarding it's outcome President
stephen II. Dow said last April:
There seems to be every indication
that with the new equipment installed
and a reasonable Improvement in the
metal market Franklin can again take
its place among the dividend earners. ."
Not only has the new equipment
been Installed bat the metal market
has risen over two cents pound
but underground conditions at the
mine have improved since then, with
another hundred feet added To the
depth showing the same betterment
that has characterized the openings
below the goth level
The FIRST chapter of Frankln's his
tory was written over period of 81
years. from 1857 until 1894. In which
profits were earned and dividends Of
S1,24O,00O disbursod. These profits
were from 100 acres on the quincy
Powabic lode This old mine was eN-
haustcd some years ago excepting for
the boundary pillars and other small
portions. and was sold to the quincy
which can work out the standing
ground at a profit from its own open
ings.
The second chapter began In 1895
with the purchase of the Peninsula
property, previously known as the Al
bany and Boston, which had been
worked intermittently since 1860.
Flranklt1's efforts to perpetuate its
existence was a losing fight until 1908
mainly because Of the attempt 10 de- Z
velop a mine on tho Allouoz conglo- &
morate lode. IN that year a crosscut
was driven from the 2Srd level OF the
oonglomoratc workings 20 the Quincys
-Pcwabic Amygdaloid lode distance
Of about 400 feet This exposed very I
promising copper iOO feet below the a
Old workings on the Quincy Pewabic G
anHgdaloid lode The conglomerate e
was then permanently abandoned and r.
during the last four Years a new mine
has been I'm the making on the amyg 81
dalold. II
Shaft in Good Ground. \
The proven commercial ground be- F"
gins at the goth level and the shaft ST
is bottomcd now below the S2nd level n
In good copper ground. Therefore is
the working part of the mine may be g
called 1000 feet deep, beginning at the a
10Th. with steady Improvement in II
values downward This 70 12OO feet "a
II depth is tested by approximately ia
three miles of drifts at the respective u
cvcls. exposing a length Of $500 feet al
pa the lode The inverted triangle T
ormed by the extreme length OF the W
owcst drifts and by the bottom of the ca
'haft is almost entirely opened by
lifts. of
The greatest extension TO the north, Sc
200 feet long. is at the goth level. w
nd us extreme is in Indifferent al
round II is apparent that the cop IN
per shoot rakes nurthward and In Ia
hat direction lies at greater eepth III
he longest drift To- the south eek So
cpting at the 18th leveD Is i'm 1000 On
ect at the 23rd level. and is contin- tn
ously In commercial copper ground. tn
he Improvement with depth is very tic
lanifest in comparing this level with all
he south drift at the 27th, which is TN
% LOO feet ana contains heavier and Or
icher copper than the 23rd This Fr
etterment at depth renders the $40 mn
ores bought two years ago from 81. GO
Iary's highly valuable as the new dir
ract is IN the path of the present me
.orkinss. gr
South Of the active NJ. shaft wi
{ distance Of 1000 feet is No. ,. inl
ottomed at 1890 feet and connected
ith 40 by drrt "a the 18th foi
his drift shows copper lin and out acl
nd will yield some stopping ground Ar
TO- shaft is poor In its upper por- in
ON but is bottomcd i'm fair copper ag,
round a few years ago it reached ia
10 limit Of It's hosting engine but an
lc company has another engine Of mo
rger capacity which can be put into op,
'rvicc. The copper ground into cor
hch the shaft is entering Is appar- ag,
iuy the top Of tho ore shoot de- cd
.lpcd IN the No. I shaft below the IN
m level. North OF 30. I shaft with IT'S
the Franklin territory Including In
e recently acquired Rhode lsland) Of
room for three other shafts spaced be
200 feet apart. mi
What the future may hold above De.
g 2O-h level is uncertain The pre- an,
m management has given these old TIM
,rknRs very little attention and Is pre-
{ prepared 10 condemn them. Pro- ste
ction however. for an indefinite tn,
ne viii come from the deeper work hoI
ss Su
Frsnklin's Splendid Equipment.
4 forecast Of the yield OF copper =
r ton OF rock IL impossible In spite 7
the fact that shipments have been ]
ing forward from these workings
ring the past three years or more
lis is because the rock sent up went
the mill without selection as there {
re no old openings into which TO and
mp waste underground and the wit
ton