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Show Hilltop, twenty miles cast of here The transfer called for the payment of $K2,"M. The report nlw has It that a ten-stamp mill had b'-on purchased. Mr. Scully was In Rattle Mountain this week, but would vouchsafe no Information on the. subject, yet he Is said to have been Inquiring Into the cost of freighting the machinery to the mines. There Is a dike on the Hilltop Hill-top mine about sixty feet wldo from which In an open cut fifteen feet high and twenty-five feet long, about $16.-000 $16.-000 in hlRh-gradc ore was taken. In several places across this dike high grade spots are now visible on the cropping. There Is no work of consequence con-sequence showlug depth on the proi, erty. The Independence Is an adjoining adjoin-ing claim equally a rich. DEALS MADE AT BANNOCK. Bannock, Nevada, Jan 9 Ray Oh-mart, Oh-mart, the discoverer of the placer deposit de-posit a mllo west of the townslte, I has sold his half Interest for ?Co0. This by no means represents the value I of the' property, but Ohmarfs financial finan-cial conditlou was such that he found himself unable to keep up his end of the development work, and benldes this It will be a couple of months probably before any placerlng can be done nu account of the deep snow and severely cold weather. With an old style rocker 300 pounds of the I dirt. Just as It came, produced $4 20. From one hole, particularly, a pound and a quarter of dirt produced 43 cents, and at this rate the ground I should produce SIM to tho cubic yard, or $r,i;o gold per ton. The purchasor or the Ohmart Interest Is Alex Walker, who located tfce Lltnellto from which th verv rich high-grade gold ore has been taken bv the Nevada-Omaha Co. There Is a' report being perslstent-lv perslstent-lv circulated here and at Battle Mountain to the effect that Michael Scully a Goldfield operator, had put through a deal 1th Ontario, Canada, and Chicago people, by which these parties rccure SI rr cent of the Ftock of the companies owning the Tiptop and Independence mines at |