REGULAR SHIPMENTS FROM HILLTOP HILL TOP herald battle mountain nev the shipment of twenty tons from the phil philadelphia adelphia western which was started from this place last week netted the owners a little over per ton this is most flattering and demonstrates the fact that this property will become a great producer another car load is sacked and will be loaded on the cars perhaps before this appears in print we are reliably informed that the second shipment will far exceed in value its predecessor the recent strike in the tunnel on this estate has created great attention showing as it does that the values at the hundred foot level are the equal if not richer than those found on the surface at a distance of feet the tunnel cut a stringer fifteen inches wide five inches of which are identically the same ore that has been sacked on the surface the contractors expect to strike the main ore body by driving the tunnel about forty feet farther the hilltop people continue sacking their picture ore and will in a few days express another consignment to the sampler the shipments from both the phil philadelphia a delphia west ern and the hilltop will be made on a weekly schedule from this time on great interest is being manifee manifested ted in the new district by outside mining men and there are several deals pending on contiguous ground note hilltop is located about eight miles west of tenabo lander county nev