The San Francisco call., 1896-08-07

cut 2 has been advanced up to the twelfth floor.
From this upraise we have extracted cars Of ore
75O level the east crosscut from the main
south drift is advanced % feet. The face Is in
quartz aoo
level the joint Norcross north drift was advanced
AZ feet, akfng its total length 142 feet from the
shaft. The face is in porphyry and stringers OF
The Joint Confidence, Challenge and Imperial
est crosscut from the surface tunnel Is out 65z
feet. having been advanced 16 feet during the
week. The face is in quartz. West crosscut from
the surface tunnel out SO feet rect having been
added during the week. The face is IN quartz OF
no value
In the Crown Point mine for the past week they
have EXTENDED the west crosscut on the eleventh
floor above the 700 level AZ feet from the ra Sc at
which point the west wall was encountered Ihey
then started a west crosScut on the seventh moor
and struck the west wall in feet after uncover
ing feet in width OF quartz. Assays from IL ran
fro M ST to SO per tom On the 100 level they are
still opening on the seventh floor, from which
point they extracted so far and stored IN tne
dumps about 200 tons of the quartz exposed whicn
they are accumu ulatiDg 70 a test run.
The yield of the Belcher mine for the week end
ing August was 555 mining carloads OF ore,
the average assay value OF which was $lS "a per
In the Confidence mine the upraise for air pur-
poses from the north drift, so feet above the sur
face tunnel, has reached the surface, and good
circulation of air has been obtained NO ore was
taken out Of the mine during the week.
The yield OF the Segregated Belcher mine for the
past week was 20 cars OF ore, the average assay
value of which was $29 SO per ton.
extracted from the north drift on the 900 level 49
tons and S25 pounds Of ore. The car samples
averaged S32 IL per ton. The formation in which
the ore is found continues very hard.
In the Mono mine for the week ending August
tho east crosscut from the south drift on the 4UO
level was advanced feet In hard porphyry and
stopped The track and airpipe have been re-
moved and work has commenced laying the track
in the south drift the Fortuna on the Bodie
Consolidated 400 level. This drift will be driven
the Bodie south line und er special arrangement
with the Bode Consolidated tompany, and will
then be advanced in Mono ground In The Fortuna
vein which has not been prospected in this reg on.
A total of $50, 706 so was paid for labor by the
mining and other corporations on and around the
Comstock for the mouth of July. The payrclis of
some of the companies were follows: Hale d
Norcross $2650: Hale & Norcross MILL $335:
Con- Cal. & Va. $lO,96s: Mexican, $196; Ophir,
5000; Best & Belcher. $1O36 so; Gould & Curry,
$1444 so: Alta, SIT, 500; Utah, 1912; Occidental
(estmated), $3.50; Brunswick Exploration Com
pany, $57Sa; Savage, $3047 so; Crown Point,
$2Oo0; Yellow Jacket, S141S Confidence, S430;
Challenge $226; Belcher, $2626; Seq. Belcher,
1878; Imperial, 1884; Bullion, $1186; Choa
$4066: Potosi, $22Sl; Union Shaft, $2292: sierra
Nevada, $706: Alpha and Exchequer, S82S
The Thors Photographic Corporation of this City
has declared dividend of per cent, payable AT
the rate of per cent each on August 6, Septem-
Der and Oc.ober 6. The capital STOCK is 2O0O
shares of the par value of $40 each of which $1S-
200 has been paid up.