The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-14
RECEIPTS OF PRODUCE.
For Monday. March 10.
THE STOCK MARKET.

The week opened with a good business IN
local securities. Contra Costa Water sold down
to S64 and Hawaiian Commercial to S79. The
latter recovered to $50 the afternoon call.
Mining stocks were quiet and not materially
changed.
The Comstock Pumping Association has
balance of $23, $50 in its treasury, with all of
last months expenses paid.
The official report of G. Nom. Ross, general
manager of the Comstock Pumping Associa-
tion for the week ending March IL, says:
For the past week the pumping association
has been engaged in work for the Gould and
Curry, Best and Belcher and Savage mining
companies, as reported in their weekly let
tiers. No pumping has been done, as the Ris-
don people have decided to make several
changes in their discharge pipe and elevator.
Their men are working day and night, and II
is expected that the machinery will arrive in
Virginia City next week. In the meantime all
arrangements have been made here, so that
pumping may be resumed at the earliest mo-
ment possible
The following mining companies report. cash
on hand February %: Alpha Consolidated,
Andes. s2326 Belcher, ssS2; Best and Belcher,
s495; Bullion, s1117; Caledonia, S45s9; Chollar,
s6092 with bills payable of S79 Confidence
$1,000, with January and February mining ex-
penses unpaid; Consolidated California and
Virginia, $685. Consolidated New York. 1913;
Con Imperial, Sl601; Challenge Con, S2Sl;
Crown Point, 1851; Exchequer, 1881; Gould
and Curry, S5S37; Hale and Norcross, $1o. 16l.
with bills payable of $15,5oO; Julia Con, S17s;
Justice sSSO6; Mexican. $24SS; Ophir, s67S;
Overrnan SIS with S4965 to be collected on
the pending assessment and bills payable of
$751; Potosi $4132 with bills payable of $4,000;
Savage, 1913; Scorpion, $196; Sierra Nevada,
$l7,2s7; Silver Hill, 81, with bills payable OF
$780, Standard Con-, SIS, 1853, with the Febru-
airy bullion product of the mine and the ex-
penses for that month to be accounted for;
Syndicate, s1495 Union Consolidated, SlO,963
and Utah Consolidated, $S62- Seq. Belcher and
Midas Con. owed S2G6.
The Anglo Californian Bank, Limited, is now
paying semi-annual dividend of 81 so per
share.
The Hutchinson Plantation Company will pay
q dividend of % cents per share on the goth.
The Spring Valley Water Company will pay
a dividend of AZ cents per share on the 20th.
In the Sierra Nevada mine the northwest
drift on the 140-foot level has been extended
during the week 40 feet; total length POS feet
The face is in porphyry, clay and quartz In
the Union shaft workings of the Sierra Nevada
the south drift from the top OF the upralse. 81
during the week; total length 103 feet The
face is in porphyry and clay
The report of the work in the Consolidated
California and Virginia mine during the week
is as follows: 400 level-The drift has been
cleaned out. retimbered and track laid for 90
feet or a total distance of 800 feet At this
point they struck the junction of the north
west and southwest drifts. Both are in bad
condition 1t is intended to follow the north
west drift for about $50 feet to a point where
it intersects north and south drift running in
head that was built December %. 1898, was
removed from the drift and the level care
fully examined but little gas was found on
the level or In the connecting drifts to the
Ophir shaft. The fire that occurred on Decem-
Der g was at q point just ABOVE the LOU leNet
in the slopes. Since opening the 1850 level they
have been able to lay pipes and carry hose
to points in the old slopes between the 1850
and 1850 levels, and are now turning all the
surface water that caught up on the 1850
level and conveyed to the Sutro tunnel into the
old slopes in the neighborhood of the fire that;
as near as can be ascertained, was smothered
by the bulkheads put in on the 1850 and 1850
levels in December last. They expect shortly
to be able to open the bulkheads on the 1750-foot
level on the 1750-fOot level the station has
been finished and $50 feet of the drift repaired
and retfmbered where required. Tracks have
been laid and the drift put in working order,
as they wish to get at and use the winze that
extends down into the slopes from this level.
Work on the electric installation has been con-
tinued and a little work has been done In the
shaft and in strengthening weak places in the
several stations.
In the Hale AMI Norcross mine they are clean
ing out and repairing the connecting drift be-
tween the main incline and the Sutro tunnel
south lateral branch.
In the Best and Becher and Gould and Cur
~ mines at the connection with the Osbiston
shaft they have been able to get into the pump
commandment at the station and find that some
distance above the shaft timberS have given
way but until they able to remove more
of the caved material they can not make a
report as to the exact condition of the shaft