The San Francisco call., 1898-01-26

and put in three sets of timbers in the incline above the HOO level since last report The Com stock Tunnel Company is making good progress with the repairs to the drift connecting the 1900 station with the Sutro tunnel.
 In the Potosi mine they have put in three sets of timbers in the main incline above the HOO level. and making good progress in the repairs to the main airway on the JOG level. The Comstock Tunnel Company is making good progress with the repairs to the drift con meeting the 1900 station with the Sutro tunnel. On the tunnel level the Potosi and Bullion Joint drift advanced fourteen feet; total length. 404 feet: face in old ground. On the sixth floor of south upraise. tunnel level. above No 1 crosscut. they have advanced the east drift twenty feet; total length, sixty feet; face Brunswick Lode-ConsoIidated California and Virginia, Best & Belcher and Gould & Curry Shaft No. . 600 leVel-The joint east crosscut, started jointly with the Gould X Curry Com pany from this drift, at point 20 feet from the station, has been advanced twenty seven feet; total lengh, 102 feet; face Tn porphyry and stringers of quartz. The joint west cross cut from the station on north boundary has been advanced twenty-two feet; total length. 129 feet; face in porphyry West crosscut No. l. started in south drift APO feet from station, has been advanced twenty-six feet: total length. 1866 feet; face in porphyry and small Chollar, 200 Ievel-West crosscut No. 8 was advanced thirty feet through porphyry total length, seventy-five feet 300 level-The stopes above this level yielding about usual and looking about the same as last reported. 300 level-The west crosscut has been advanced eighteen feet during the week; total length. 1s4 feet 174 feet west of the footwall forma- tion; through hard rock. They have shipped
 
 three tons and 1250 pounds of ore, assaying follows: Wagon samples s26 SS in gold and 1e. .9S ounces of silver. They doing a con siderable amount of repair work and timber ing and prospecting throughout the mine.
 Potosi, 800 level-The joint west crosscut has been advanced nineteen feet for the week; total length 194 feet, 174 feet west of the footwall; face in hard rock. 500 level-The main south drift has been advanced forty feet for the week; total length from the north line, forty feet; face in porphyry.
 Occidental Con.-The official letter for the past week says: $50 level-West crosscut No. has been driven ten feet through hard DOT phyry; total length thirty feet $50 level East crosscut No 5. started at a point fin the south drift $40 feet from the station. has been advanced nineteen feet; total length. 131 feet; face in hard porphyry with seams of quartz. I5O level-We have extended the main south drift seventeen feet; total length. 679 feet; along the footwall of the ledge; face in fair grade ore. The crosscut to the east started at point $40 feet south of the station on this level has been advanced twelve feet through ore Of fair quality: total length twenty-three feet. The % per share dividend of the Elkton Con. mine ot Cripple Creek, Colo, paid the 20th was s25.ooo. making total of s426. Ooa since May, 1896. Capital stock is sl, ,250. 900: par value. sl. of which s1.00 900 Is outstanding company has surplus Of about s20o. 900. The stock is quoted at about ssc per share.