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Show BIG OUTPUT OF HILLTOP MINE. Has Shipped Ore Worth $30,000 Since First of Year. Anthony McCauley. writing trom Hilltop to the Central "Nevadan at Battle Mountain, says:" There is an undercurrent or mystery mys-tery in the camp these days that makes the curious ones' lick their chops in hungry anticipation of tho morsel of good news that Is liable to be thrown as a succulent bite at nny moment in their midst, and start the tongue' of publicity wagging. There is still a cloak of mystery surrounding surround-ing the visit to the camp the other day, and It is thought by those who kHbw that more capital Is getting ready to operate in this district. Let 11 come, is the way we feel In this neck of the woods. With the vein in the RlacknuT shart of the rhiladei-phia-Western widened until it Is now better than three root-of $300 oro, and four sets of leasers on the Hilltop biislly preparing to sink, no camp in the state has such brilliant prospects pros-pects ' The second shipment of the Philadelphia-Western and Hilltop proper-tins, proper-tins, which is now being prepared, will undoubtedly net In the aggregate from this camp, since the first ot last January, Janu-ary, $30,000. The record ot Hilltop surpasses even the much-valued southern south-ern camps. . Chlara brothers will put a force ot ten men to work on their Wisconsin claim within the next fortnight. This ground is .considered very valuable and its development will be watched Alth considerable interest. " The engineers of the Philadelphia-Western Philadelphia-Western took angular sections of the hill this morning and found to the surprise of everybody that the tunnel will tap tho ledge under the Black-mer Black-mer shaft in the next thirty feet. The main ledge will then be crosscut at a depth of 180 feet, or 100 leet under the Blackmer shart. March 25th should mark an epoch in the history of Hilltop, as. If the ledge holds out in values at that depth. Hilltop will have the greatest mine In the west. |