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Show I SACRAMENTO DIVIDEND, j Transfer Books on tho Regular Pay-( Pay-( raont Closo Today. ( Tho transfer books will close today on the Sacramento company's March I dividend, tho ?5000 distribution to take place on Tuesday next, when the total from that source will have reached 5193,-j 5193,-j 000, the quicksilver which is now being j sweated from its ores furnishing the ' bread money on this occasion and j constituting the first dividend ever de- rived from the mining- of mercurial ores in the State. It was the presence of , that class of ore that Inspired those I who were present at the christening of I Mercur. Meanwhile the quicksilver for another distribution in corresponding ( amount is in the company's storeroom, while the presence of warm weather 1 suggests additional retorts in which to reduce the mercurial ores, of which it is estimated that $200,000 Is now exposed, ex-posed, on a more extensive scale. All the while the leaching of gold from the main class continues without any sign of diminution. |