The San Francisco call., 1899-04-12
RECEIPTS OF PRODUCE.
THE STOCK MARKET.

There a fair business in local securities
yesterday morning. The increased gas rates
gave Gas and Electric more tone, and there was
some recovery in prices though not so much
as might have been expected. Sales were made
at S5Q75 50. Hawaiian Commercial was some
what higher at $91 so. Other stocks remained
about the same
On the afternoon call business was quiet. Gas
and Electric stock weakened off to s74 S71a
Mining stocks were stronger. though business
continued quiet. The telegram from the pump
said: Elevator working steadily keeping the
water below 1S5O-foot level. The water in the
winze from the 1750-foot level is Is feet inches
below the station
At the bond session of the San Francisco
Stock Exchange 25 Hawaiian Commercial sold
at ss1. 10 San Francisco Gas and Electric at
s74 so and $1,000 of United States per cent bonds
at {1oS.
or the British Columbia mines the Rambler
Cariboo paid dividend of SO 900 on the lst
Another, the War Eagle, will pay a dividend
OF S2o, ESQ on the 18th The Payne has declared
month payable on the 10th of April The aver
age shipments from the Payne are about 250
month half of which is paid in dividends Re-
sides these dividends bonuses are given during
several months of the year. During 1893 there
Der and December.
There will be no dividend paid by the Ma
tonh Vineyard Company this month
ne Challenge Consolidated reports s1949 cash
on hand April l.
The Consolidated Imperial had s1S57 cash on
hand.
The following ore shipments were made by
ran from the mines of Eureka district and
vicinity in Nevada for the week ending April
Z: Bullwhacker mine. 81, $50 pounds; Diamond
42, $50; Eureka Consolidated, rs 2S0; Leonie
i, 720; Oriental and Belmont, 724O; Richmond
146 $40; Williamsburg, 4160.
The report of General Manager Ross of the
Comstock Pumping Association for the past
citation has been engaged in cleaning out and
repairing the C. and c. shaft below the 1880
Ioot Ievel. me shaft is in fair condition The
pump compartment is nearly full OF air pipes
columns straps, pump rods and bobs. that are
difficult to take out. This compartment must
be cleaned out, as the space is required for the
second elevator that will be placed in this com
partrnent before the water can be lowered by
the first arranged elevator. The plan is To
place the second elevator in the pump compart-
ment at as great a depth as possible; then to
start and hold the water at a point that will
allow us to break the joints in the elevator that
is now at work and raise 1t to the surface of
the water when such changes are required
can be made In the throat and nozzle. then to
deep possible.
when the water has been lowered the pump
compartment Will be cleaned out to as great a
depth as possible and the elevator in this com
partment will be again lowered to the point
where the required changes be made in the
first elevator. In this way of working the 500
feet of flooded levels will be drained Judg-
ing from our experience in draining the sha n
for $50 feet below the Sutro drain boxes II mas
been found that If an elevator was designed
for the full lift of 500 feet and 1t could be sub
c. and c. shaft for that distance in from three
to four weeks but 1t would not be safe to at
tempt such work The water is being drained
from the lower levels slowly, while being rap
idly lowered In the c. and c. shaft, as our
measurements taken at the Consolidated Cali
fornia and Virginia winze. the Hale & Norcross
incline and the Chollar combination shaft in
dicate.
1T is quite possible that nearly all of the
drainage from the various mines finds its way
through the vein and not through the drifts,
as our experience with Comstock drifts and
levels indicates very clearly that there are but
few places where these openings will not cave
tight enough to form fairly strong dams
Since April l the water has gone down in
the Chollar combination shaft feet 1 inch in
the Hale g. Norcross incline 12 feet inches and
in the 1850 wnZe 16 feet inches while being
lowered 120 feet in the c. and c. shaft No
measurements were possible in the Osbiston
shaft until April 6. when we found the water
to be 50 feet IL inches below the station of the
drift connecting with the Sutro tunnel The
water in the z. and c. shaft is being kept down
to about its lowest mark, 132 feet below the
1850 level, by running the elevator sixteen hours
during each twentyfour We expect to con-
tinue working in this way until the second ele-
vator is in place. The pumping association has
been engaged as usual in doing work for the
several mining companies, as appears in their
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