The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-18
RECEIPTS OF PRODUCE.
The SIOUX MARKET.

Local securities were again active on the
morning session. Hawaiian Commercial ad-
vanced to s1O1 50, Market Street Railway to
s64 Gas and Electric to $74 and Contra Water
to sos 50. No other changes
on afternoon call Hawaiian Commercial adj
vanced still further TO $1G2 % and Giant Pow
der to 500 %. Otherwise there nothing
new
Mining stocks were quiet and unchanged.
The telegram from the pump said Elevator
working steadily Water in the 1750-foot level
Wine twenty-four feet two inches below the
station"
The Fireman's Fund Insurance Company has
declared a quarterly dividend of SO, payable
on the 18th
The delinquent assessment sale of the Over
man Mining Company will be held to-day.
The Grass Valley Exploration Company has
declared a dividend of 25 cents per share, pay
able April 90
In the Consolidated California and Virginia
mine during the past week the following work
was done under the auspices of the Comstock
Pumping Association: c. and c. shaft-AH
of the wreckage of the Cornish pumping plant
has been taken out Of the pump compartment
of the shaft down to a tank station that is
ten and half feet below the 1S50-foot level
The tank station has been cleaned out and is
new pumping system. On the surface the com
pressed air engine and cages for in the
Wine from the 1850 are being put in working
order. 1900 leVel-The west drift has been ex-
tended seventeen feet; total distance west
from c. and c. shaft, 453 feet. The face is in
soft hanging wall rock showing little water
1850 level-The repairs drains on this level
have been completed. The bulkhead retaining
the water caught up from the upper levels
gave way. 1t constructed of wood and
was rotten. They are repairing this bulk
head with bricks laid In cement. 1850 level
Work the Wine station has been continued
The Wine foundation was found TO be defec-
tive and has been taken out The. station
timbers are out of line and will have to be
Strengthened and replaced
In the Sierra Nevada mine the raise start
ed in the north drift at a point 223 feet north
from the west drift to connect with the Riley
tunnel has been advanced fourteen feet; total
level-Engaged during part of the week re-
moving track and air pipes from the south
drift from the top Of raise to the sill
floor and have started a DRIFT north in the
ledge formation from west crosscut No 2 and
advanced the same eight feet; face in clay
gypsum and porphyry.
In the Ophir mine during the past week in
the old Central tunnel workings. the second
crosscut from the northwest drift was ex-
tended seven feet: total, twenty five feet; face
in solid quartz, showing spots of sulphdes of
no assay value. There is little moisture in
the face of the drift The west drift was
feet through heavy ground requiring close tim
bering. hey expect TO make an opening for
air through this drift during the present week.
The Sutro tunnel connection was extended
twelve feet; total seventy EIGHT feet: face in
hard hanging wall rock. Having selected one
OF the best looking streaks of quartz in the
Sutro tunnel at n point fifty-nine feet south
Of the connection now being run they have
drifted along It's course northeast eight feet
The vein in the bottom is twelve inches thick
of clean quartz with spots of ore. In the face
and back of the drift the vein is mixture
OF quartz. clay and porphyry. The hanging
wall rock is mineralizeG, showing iron sui
phides and quartz for at feast 100 feet north
and 100 feet south OF the point where they are