The San Francisco call., 1895-12-20
THE STOCK MARKET.

Prices ran along about the same yesterday under
dull business as will be by the list Of sales
below.
The close was frmer, as q rule.
NOTES.
The assessment on Mexican will be delinquent
in the boards to-day.
The dividend on 1e May Flower Is payable to-
day.
The Scottish Hall Association will pay the sixth
dividend CT SO cents per share to-day.
The California Wine Association has just de-
cared its first dividend of 81 25 per share payable
December 81
The f. f. Belden Mica Mining Company of New
Hampshire paid dividend of cents per share, or
$4,000, on the 10Th.
The Victor Gold Mining Company of Colorado
paid dividend of 10 cents per share on the 16th
the same being $4,000.
The Engineering and Mining Journal of New
York reports 81 100000 paid in dividends In No
vember by sixteen mines, including $750,000 by
the Boston and Montana mine and So SAC. $50 by
sixty mines in the first eleven months of the year.
The Hutchinson Sugar Plantation Company VIII
pay dividend of 5 cents per share today;
The Para1line Paint Company has declared a
quarterly dividend of % cents per share payable
December 27.
been in liquidation for some time, will pay fur
ther dividend of 81 per share in the division Of the
capital on December "a.
The German Savings and Loan Society has de-
clared semi-annua dividend at the rate OF 4.26
per cent per annum on term and $50 per cent on
ordinary deposits, payable January 2, 1896.
The Columbian Banking Company has declared
a dividend of per cent per aunum for the half
year ending December 81, 1895, payable January
2, 1886.
The weekly reports Of the Gold Hill mines are
as follows:
OvERMAS-Extracted and hoisted from north
drift from shaft 800 level 16 of OF the
value as per top car samples OF S5S 0S per ton
CoNFIDENCE-West crosscut l from surface
tunnel is out 367 feet; the tace is in porphyry:
There have been hosted during the week and
stored in the house at the mine 10 mining carloads
of ore, the average top-car sample of which shows
an assay value of $50 SO per ton.
Cox. IMPERIAL-The Joint Challenge and I'M
perial west crosscut from the surface tunnel is
out l76 feet the face shows porphyry.
CROWN PoINT-The south drift from southeast
croSscut on the 600 level is out total Of llS
feet; face in porphyry. The southwest DRIFT from
the south end of the track floor on this level has
been extended 10 feet during the week and is now
out 81 feet. Are still engaged in retimb bering and
repairing the main southeast crosScut on the 600
level and in the east crosscut on the 100 level;
the usual repairs in the shaft and elsewhere are un-
der way. Have shipped 10 the Mexican mill for
reduction the balance Of the gold ore that was on
hand in the dnmps-249i2 tons.
BELCHER-On the 800 level the joint Becher
and Seq. Belcher west crosscut from south lateral
drift is out 80 feet; the face is in porphyry The
joint crosscut from the south lateral drift
level is 81 feet with the face In porphyry
There have been hoisted during the week and
stored in the orehouse at the mine 3S minlngcar
loads OF ore, the average tcp-car sample of which
shows value OF S27 SO per ton.
Seq BELCHER-there have been hoisted during
the week and stored in the ore house at the mine
twelve miuing-car loads OF ore, the average top
car sample of which shows an assay value OF
S2S % per ton.
The Official letter from the Bodie Consolidated
mine for the week ended December 15 says that
in the face of the south drift from the east
cut from the north drift on the 400 level there
is about two and half feet of quartz OF low
grade. In the other workings of the mine there
no changes reported.
In the Mono mine the uprase from the south
drift from the west crosScut the 400 level
carried up twenty-five feet during the past
week. The top Is in porphyry and streaks OF