 It can be speculated that Hillman had planned to use Boswell as its primary processing facility after the link-up, thus the huge tipple.Hillman also likely planned to make Boswell the center of operations and community life (of evidence, the high school).But the two mines never came together; in fact, Boswell's mine proved to be significantly less productive than Jerome's, as shown by documented production figures from 1927, for example.