The San Francisco call., 1897-01-19
The Gas Consumers association. the usual divi

The Gas Consumers Association, the usual divi-
uend OF DC on the 10Th
! The Oakland Gas Company 25c on the 10TH
The Napa Con. Quicksilver Mining Company
paid dividend of $4,000 on the ,econd for the
last quarter of 1896
| The annu al meeting of the Fireman's Fund.In
surance ard Pacific Auxiliary Fire Alarm compa-
hles Will be held to-day.
Weekly reports from the mines are es follows
consolidated California and Virginia 1000 level
From west crosscut 2. started at a point in the
| north drift $50 feet north from the Consolidated
| Virginia shalt sta ion or S5 ieet south from the
north boundary line of the mine, point 436
| rect from its mouth from the double compart-
meDt uprase SO feet above the sill floor of this
! level, he west crosscut has been extended 10
! feet, passing through porphyry and clay; total
| lengtn l6O feet From the west crosse cut a
! polnt 124 feet in from the upraiS south drift
| has been started and advanced / feet passing
| through CLAY. rorphyry and quartz of low assay
! Vaiue. 1850 level-We repairing easing
| iimbers on the ninth floor sou.h drift. 1850
level-From the twenty-slxth floor the west drift
has been extended 10 feet through rorphyry and
quartz assaying low total length 200 feet. From
| The tenth eleventh and sixteenth floors on east
| stde-above the sill floor of this level-at the
north end of the slopes in old ground OF former
workings, we have extracted 1S tons OF ore: tn
average assay Value, per samples taken from the
cars in the mine, was 80 Is per ton. From III g
west drift at d point 100 feet in from its mouth
north drift has been advanced 20 feet, passing
through porphyry, clay and quartz assaying So
and 81 per ton; total length 20 feet Opposite
the north drift south drift has been advanced 20
feet, passing through porphyry clay and streaks
or Quartz asSaying So TO Sc per ton. On The
TWEEN y-fifth, floor the east crosscut has been
started and advanced feet through porphyry
total lensth 104 feet. From the east crosscut at
a point 50 feet in from its mouth south drift has
been advanced II feet through porphyry and
clay We continue filling open space In the slopes
between the eighteenth and tweniy-sixth floors
with fine rock. The ota extraction of ore for the
week amounted to 18 tons: the average assay
from samples AIKEN from cars when raised to the
surface, was $34 per ton.
In the Ophr mine, on the 1000 teveI, wess cross
cut is In 80 feet: the face is in porphyry,
clay and lines of quartz. In the old Central tun-
mel workings of the Opnir, from the 81 floor from
the west crosscut from the Mexican snaft at a
point 1872 feet in from its mouth from the south
drift 30 feet in from its mouth, uprase has been
started and carried up b feet through old stope
wo kings, assaying from So to SO per ton.
In the Hale and Norcross mine, on the 900foot
level. in No. upraise, they have advanced the
south drift from the south end of the sixth floor
feet: total length 80 feet. The streak con-
tinues about the same in strength and value. In
No. upraise they have finished raising TO the
ninth floor and started north on the On the
975 level the water pipe from the slopes having
become choked they took it up and cleaned it
out, and have put it back, and have also made
necessary repairs throughout the mine Ex-
tracted carloads of pay ore, assaying $19 in gold
and 81 ounces OF silver per ton
Reports from the other mines are unimportant-