Show THE HERCULES MINE Ii A Splendid Showing In This Lion Hill Property SHIPMENT OF ORE ENROUTE LARGE BODIES OF MILLING MINERAL BEING UNCOVEItED f j Back From XlondikeGold Is There t But No New Discoveries Reported 4 Roaster Jior the La CignleCop r per King Ore Body Increasing In Size and Value Activity In StocksLeading Securities Ready Sellers In the Pit of the Exchange The RossBuck Mines The Tiger LodeStocks On the Curb Johnsons Regulator Ore and BullionSilver and LeadMining Notes and Personals Sam Pollock the chief mogul of the i Hercules mine on Lion hilt and to Whom much credit is due for the splendid splen-dId condItion of this property Is In he city awaiting the arrival of a car off of-f ore which Is now en route to the sam J pier from the mine t ThIs lot of ore Mr Pollock states I wlI1 carry metallic values of about 140 f ounces in silver and from 5 to 6 in gold to the ton and he is authority for the statement that It Is the ext ex-t pectatlon that the company will follow up this inItial consignment with a shipment ship-ment of at least a carload of high grade are a month Of course Mr Pollock Is well pleased over the fact that the property has reached a shipping basis but he Is more so over the excellent condition of the mine and the flattering showing of are In its workings especially in the lower portions of the mine where crosscuts have disclosed a body of mineral all of 14 feet thick between 1 welldefined walls all of which Is an I excellent millIng propositIon by the cyanide process the values ranging from 10 to 18 ounces In silver and 3 to 4 In gold besides which In this Immense Im-mense body of mineral there Is a goodly amount of highgrade shipping oreAt At the present time Mr Pollock has six men at work in the development of the Hercules who are sinking a reverse re-verse incline from the 40foot drift I from the bottom of the first Incline the 1 Incline following the footwall on its dip which Is about 45 degrees to the northeast the full bottom of the workings work-ingS bclcg in a large body of mineral that is free from all base and deleterIous deleter-Ious substances the vein being ex ceptlonallj strong the indications being be-ing that it will go to the deep Mr Pollcck being of the opinion that this Is thE mother lode of that section The drift in the Hercules can hardly be more than GO feet from the workings work-Ings In the Chloride Point and every shot in the latter can be heard In the former showing the continuity of the mIneral belt but the Hercules is now working away from the C P and Is acquirIng depth on the vein which Is frozen to the great porphyry drlee that cuts through the region In a northerly and southerly direction and this It Is believed Insures permanency to the deposit de-posit and if this theory Is correct the Hercules Is likely prove one of the biggest mines un Lion hill Mr Pollock states that the Chloride JoInt mine is In magnificent condition with large areas of are blocked out in its workingS and the mill Is running in a most satisfactory manner and at an excellent saYing while good ore Is being hoisted from the Columbia right along and excellent progress Is being made in the development of this prom isiug property As to the Northern Light the new workingS of which are almost wIthin a stones throw of the Hercules dump It Is the impression on the hm among mIning men that something good has been opened up there by Superintendent Superin-tendent Legg |