Show GREAT IS THE HERCULES statesman boise idaho L W hutton was a visitor to the CRY city tuesday he came here tor for the purpose ot of watching the sale of lands on the emmett bench intending to ci buy and it is thought likely some of the purchases were made on his behalf mr hutton is one of the fortunate owners of the hercules mine near wallace at the time of the great strike in the property he wa 3 running on the railway as an engineer but he was one of the party ot of men who burnished shed money for some years for development of the claim when the great ere cre shoot was finally struck they were all raised from comparative poverty to wealth it is a somewhat interesting tact fact that thai the good fortune has not turned the head of one of those hardworking men it is so common for men meeting with such good fortune to proceed to spend their money ioney with a lavish hand that the record of careful management of their income made by these men is worthy of note recently a thirty second interest in the mine was sold by mr samuels on a basis of for the entire property he is the only one who has cold out at the time of that sale it was rumored some minneapolis people were to tb secure cecur e control ot of the mine developments since have shown there was some friction between the owners some of them gave an option or talked of doing so and the others bou bought ht out samuel in order to hold the control in their hands the cause of the flurry has not been made public but it is believed to have been smoothed over or will be while the basis of the samuels sale was high it was recognized as being none too high at the time while the mine has shown great improvement since of this improvement the wallace tribune says the mere fact that the hercules mine was valued at in the recent sale and purchase of the samuels interest which is the highest cash price ever paid for a mine in the coeur calenes dA lenes does not tell the story of this wonderful mine the mine today is in better condition than eve ever r and recent visitors to the property say there ere is sufficient ore in sight for ten years work in getting it out the ore is as rich as ever and the recent strike in tunnel no 3 is said to be of a higher grade when the new mill with a capacity ot of 1300 tons daily is in operation which will be in about six weeks the property will almost double its dividends which now reach nearly per month these dividends have been maintained on purely first cari clairs s shipping ore while hundreds of tons of milling ore is awaiting the starting of the mill which is extremely up to date in the methods of saving values |