Show AT THE SACRAMENTO i Excellent Results Continue to Characterize Charac-terize Efforts of Management With a steady stream of quicksilver addeil to the regular flow of gold the Sacramento of Mercur Is giving excellent excel-lent account of Itself these days and while the present dividend affords more than 20 per cent on the market value I of its shares it Is not at all unlikely I that the distribution will be increased the present season Superintendent G W Cochler the efficient superintendent of the mill who was in town and a visitor vis-itor at the general offices of he I company com-pany during the day reports an average aver-age of 140 tons of ore going dally through the crushers and into the leaching tanks the proceeds of this not only providing for the dividend but adding a unit or two each month to the surplus while the retorts arc frying the mercury out of from 2400 to 3000 pounds of ore that averages 10 per cent without with-out reference to 5S in gold which is contained in each ton of slag The earnings earn-ings of the retorts are indeed practically practic-ally nil profits and that the capactly of the plant will he increased next spring appears quite well assured Of the Sacramentos ore bodies the visitor says Superintendent Jones has them well in hand and while now strikes are not exploited as are they In some localities new ore bodies continue to take the places of those that have been raised to the surface the whole maintaining main-taining a good average Of the camp generally Superintendent Superintend-ent Cochler says It moves along without with-out material l change from day to day with ore enough to supply the requlre mentb of the plants for some years yet |