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Show COMSTOCK TROUBLES. A Kinsr Is Said to Be Kunning- the Mine lor Its Own Benefit. SENATOR JONES AT THE HEAD. Stockholders of the Consolidated Virginia Vir-ginia Claim that He Cannot Be Trusted and They Propose to Bring the IMrectors to a I,esral Accounting Account-ing What the Property Yields The Xew Officers Elected. San Francisco, Oct. 21. Special. There is trouble ahead for the directors of Consolidated California & Virginia Mining company of Virginia City, Nevada. It has been a public secret for years, at least allegations alle-gations have frequently been made, that a ring is profiting from working the ores from the property by the Comstock Mine & Milling . company. Senator John P. Jones owns a third interest in that corporation. corpora-tion. Stockholders of the Con. Virginia claim that it was shown in the Hale & Xorcross suit that Senator Jones can't be trusted to handle their product. The stockholders, who are leagued together to-gether under the name of the Mining Stock association, ctiarge that the Consolidated California and Virginia mine is not managed iu the interests of the shareholders of the company, but to the profit of the Coinsiock company. In proof they declare that the 54,8l)S tons of ore extracted from August 1, 1S1K), to August 1, 1S92, according accord-ing to the pulp assay of the company of .23.37 a ton, should have brought $1,282,707.08. Th; Comstock returned re-turned of this pulp in bullion ouly f9.87.G24, retaining $2ys,143. They received for milling 54,893 tons of ore at ft', grold a ton, $329,388, equal in bullion to 375,502.32; making their receipts $(570,o45.32, bullion value, out of $ 1,28J,7G7.03 worth of ore, or more than one-half one-half of the pulp assay. The company commenced com-menced the fiscal year with $98,374.94 in bank. It crushed over 55,000 tons of ore, worth nearly ?25 a ton, and at the end of the fiscal year was reported in debt. The following officers were elected for the year: President, Charles II. Fish; vice-president, vice-president, George li. Wells; secretary, A. W. Havens; directors, II. H. Havens, Con O'Connor, W. S Lyle; superintendent, A. B. Lyman. Superintendent Lyman made a long report re-port on the output and condition of the mine and how it had been worked. The report re-port showed that the Comstock company had returned $974,341. fc9 on the pulp furnished. fur-nished. This huiiion carried f 545,789.73 in gold and i42$,554. 10 in silver. ! |