The San Francisco call., 1898-01-04
RECEIPTS OF PRODUCE.
THE STOCK MARKET.

There were few changes in mining stocks Hester1sy' some stocks being weaker and others iirmer. All variations were narrow
 The Stockton Gas and Electric Cotnpanv paid dividend of 30 cents per share yester- day.
 The San Francisco Gas and Electric Com pany paid monthly dividend of 50 cents per share yrSt,1oay
 The Gciden Star Mining Company of Geld Mountain. Utah, paid it's first dividend amounting to S25o0. yesterday
 The Calumet and HecIa Copper Mining Com pany or Michigan paid a dividend of S10 per share. amounting to s1.o00. 900. yesterday
 The Napa Consolidated Quicksilver Mining Company paid its quarterly dividend of 10 cents per share yesterday, also an extra divi- dend of the same amount, the two aggregat- ing S20. .000
 The Eoston and Colorado smelting Company paid a quarterly dividend of 1Ik per cent yes terday. The company has for the past twenty live years maintained a quarterly dividend of 2h per cent until the present quarter
 The Reco Mining Company of British Colum- tia paid a dividend of $l00 900 yesterday
 Weekly reports from the mines are as fol- lows:
 Consolidated California and Virginia. 1850 icTel-The north drift skirting along the foot wall from the incline upraise at a point IFS feet on the stope above this level was sad- Nanced I2 feet through porphyry streaked with quartz assaying S2 per ton; total length, 235 feet. From the incline upraise No. l, at point l12 feet above the sill floor of this level, the south drift has been advanced 29 feet passing through quartz and porphyry assayine 50 cents per ton; total length, 92 feet. 1850 level-From incline upraise No. l. at a point 60 feet above the sill floor of this level, from the south drift skirting along the footwall, at a roint IFS feet in from it's mouth from the top of the upraise, which has been carried up 49 feet, the south drift has been advanced Is feet, passing through porphyry and quartz assaying afout 70 cents per ton; total length, S2 feet From the old east crosscut on the sill foor of this level, at point 122 feet in from its mouth from the top of the upraise, which has been carried up 30 feet. north drift has been started and advanced 43 feet, passing through porphyry and quartz asshying $1 and g per ton In the face at the bottom of the drift there is narrow streak of assaying $50 25 per ton. 1T50 level-On the eleventh floor north from the upraise from the west cross cut from the north drift, at point 30 feet in from its mouth, east and west drifts have been phyry and quartz of nominal value. No ore has been extracted from the mine during the week.
 In the Ophir mine. on the 1000 level, west crosscut No is in TAP feet from the main north drift from the shaft station; the face is in porphyry clay and vein matter, In the old Central tunnel workings of the Ophir, from the sill floor from the west croSscut from the Mexican shaft. starting at point 225 feet in from it's mouth, the crosscut has been ex- tended 10 feet through porphyry and clay streaked with quartz assaying 60 cents per
 In the Sierra Nevada mine no work was done in the Layton tunnel during the past week. The Riley tunnel was advanced 14 feet; total length, 5S4 feet: the face is in clay and porphyry. Much of the week taken up in repairs and timbering. On the s0o-foot level of the Union shaft workings of the Sierra Ne 100 feet from west crosscut No and 450 feet north from the Sierra Nevada shaft, was ad- vanced feet: total length, 70 feet; face in porphyry. Have been engaged in making re- pairs during the week.
 done during the past week. as they were still engaged in repairing the Bonner shaft.
 No work was done in Hale & Norcross ground on the Comstock or Brunswick lodeS during the past week.