The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-07
RECEIPTS OF PRODUCE.
For Monday. February 6.
The STOCK MARKET.

Speculation in stocks and bonds was active
again. with number of variations, Hawaiian
Commercial sold up TO SIS %, but fell back
Contra Costa Water rose from s61 80 TO 500 90
There less activity in mining shares and
with one or two exceptions the plane of values
was somewhat below that of Saturday.
Alta is assessed cents
The Hale & Norcross assessment OF 10 cents
per share will be delinquent in the company 5
office to-day.
The Pacific Gas Improvement Company and
the San Jose Water Company Will pay the
usual monthly dividends of 90 cents per share
on the 10Th
The California street Cable Company will
pay dividend Of so cents per share on the
usual date this month
The Argonaut Mining Company of Jackson
Amador County, paid its regular monthly divi-
dend OF 900 on January &C.
Recent dividends are as follows: Sacramento.
Utah. Il cent per share, $5OOO payable Feb
ruary /.
Bunker Hill 6 Sullivan, Idaho $21 900; Feb
ruary a.
Morning Star. California, 81 per share; pay
able Immediately.
Utah mine. Utah. 2 cents per share, $1,000;
January "a.
La Reina mine, Mexico, $50 per share. SOS
600; payable Immediately.
The official report of the work done at the
&. q G. shaft during the past week by the Com
stock Pumping Association is as follows: The
foundation for the Risdon pumping plant at the
1850 level. for the main column and for the
part of the system in the center hosting com
partment was finished and the work of install
lation started. Work on the 1850 station was
resumed and shaft improvements continued
wherever possible
In the Best & Belcher and Gould & Curry
mines the connecting drift with the Osbiston
shaft has been reopened 335 feet. They have
been able to reach the shaft. where they found
lot of tmbers that had fallen from the sur
face. They will remove these tlmbers and
& off ba u
don plant in unwatering can be observed from
this point. Since February 1 the work has
been done by two shifts of three men each
The repairs having been completed. no work
either underground the surface was done
In the Chollar and Potosi mines during the past
week.
In the Sierra Nevada mine the northwest
drift from the 140foot level station of the shaft
has been extended to total length of $50 feet
and stopped in hard porphyry. At a point 4s7
feet west of the shaft they have started a drift
north from the northwest drift and ii is out 20
feet The face is in soft porphyry and clay
with seams of quartz through it. This drift
1t they viii raise up and connect with the tun-
mel for ventilation On the 900-foot level the
south drift from the top of the upraise 80 feet
up Is out "a feet. The face is in clay and Dor
phyry.
In the ophir mine underground work was
done through the main shaft during the past
week In the old central tunnel of the Ophir,
east crosscut No. now has a length of AZ feet
n Inc race rs IN barren porPhyyry Work at this
the result of developments that may follow from
work now being done by miners on their own
account in this part of the mine. The north
drift, which is being jointly with the Mex
lean Mining Company, now has length of Al
feet The face is in strong quartz vein lying
on heavy clay footwall. showing little wa
ter. The material in the face of the drift as
says: Gold. 40 cents; silver, Las ounces per ton
They have sent down to the Sutro tunnel level
through the c. G. c. shaft enough 15x9O inch air
pipe to make connection from the Sutro tunnel
north lateral to the Ophir incline and are pre-
pairing a blower and water station in one of fhe
c: 6, G. drifts where there is an ample supply
of fresh air.
During this week they expect to start the drift
that viii be crosscut into the ground that
has not been prospected. and a survey has been
made to give the proper starting point for this
drift. Work in the north lateral of the Sutro
tunnel has been completed and the tunnel is in
order for operations to begin.