The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1893-10-12
GOLD AND SILVER.
How the Output Of the Two Met
ais Compares.
Interesting Facts and Figures by
the Treasury Department.

| hCooiuiuS 10 tdDle pTephreu ny IMr.
| Edward O. Leach, late director of the
I United States Mint, America produces
a very large proportion of the silver of
sthe world. The silver production in
1892 was according to his figures $196,
505, 1874 of this amount America pro-
| duced $160, 200, 900, or fve-sixths of
the entire silver production of the
world. OF this $3.50, 900, 900, produced
in 1892, $75, 200, 900 was the product
OF the United States $50, 900, 900 from
the mines of Mexjoo $15, 900, 900 from
the mines of Bolivia; So, 900, 900 from
Peru; So, 900, 900 from Chill and $2,-
/ 900, 900 from the Central American
States. OF the $36, 900, 900 worth of
silver produced by other parts of the
world, one-half comes from Austria,
one-fourth from Germany, and the re-
mainder from France, Austria Hun
gary, Turkey, Spain, and small amounts
| from other European countries, while
Japan produces about $2,000,000.
Thus the United States is not only the
| greateet silver producing country of
the world, but actually produced
| about two-ffths of the entire output of
the world, and nearly one-half of that
produced in America.
In this connection some figures OBJ
tanned from the Treasury Department
on the production of gold will also be
interesting. The gold production of
the world in 1892 is set down at $780,
S16,627. OF this the United States
produced $34, 431, ,577; Australia pro-
duced $33, $50, 800; Russia, $23, 546, :
900; Africa, $22, ,069, ,57S; British In
dia, $3,057, 800; Colombia, South
America, So, Ats, 900; Venezuela about
two millions, and other South Ameri-
can countries small amounts ranging
from $756, 900 to 81 100000.
While the United States is today
producing as much silver as gold, her
! productions of silver in the past one
hundred years have only been about
one-half as much as her productions of
gold. The silver productions Of the
United States from 1892 to 1892 were
81, 146, 500 900, and the gold produc-
tions during the same period were ST.
937, ,SS1, 769. Add to this the gold
productions of the present year and
you get in round figures $4,000, 000,-
900 of gold which has been taken out
of the mines of the United States.
California still remains our chief
gold producing State. We hear of
gold mines in Colorado, Montana, Ne
vada and Idaho, but none of them size
up along side of the old mines of Cal
ifornia. Of the $34, 431,5 of gold
produced in the United States last year
the mines of California supplied $12,-
571 900; those of Colorado $5, $780,,
021 South Dakota, So, 942. 1876; Mon
tana, 50, 1866, 500 Idaho, S1,721, 1854;
Nevada, 81, ,571, 500; Oregon, 81, 491,-
ISL Arizona, 81, 1T, ,577; Alaska, ST.
OSO, 446; New Mexico, 1859, 176; Utah,
$3.50, IT'S and Washington, 1878, 553.
The southeastern States still produce
small quantities of gold North Caro-
lima turned out last year SIS, $50 worth
of gold from her mines; South Caro-
lima, 1928, 365; Georgia, S94, 734; Vir-
ginia, $4970, and Alabama, S2393.
These southeastern States also pro-
duced some silver. The mines of
Georgia last year turned out $95, ,25l
worth of silver; North Carolina, $780,
1876; South Carolina, 1923, 1922, and
other States in that section small sums.
In silver production Colorado leads
the way, the production of her silver
mines last year having been 31,Oll-
993. Montana comes next with pro-
ductions of $25, 410,12 California,
$13, ops, ,520; Utah, so, ,696, 225; Ida
no, $5,S12, $40; Nevada, $4, 422, 700;
South Dakota, $4,011, ,262; Arizona,
So, $50, 955; New Mexico, $2,350, 532;
Oregon, 81, 555, Sol Alaska, 81, ,090,
476.
Our gold productions in this country
began in 1S49, and the silver produc-
tions 20 years earlier. The total gold
production prior to 1S49 did not ag-
gregate more than about $25, 900, 900,
and the silver productions did not reach
even million dollars in any one year
prior to 1861, and it was not until 1871
that they reached as high as twenty
millions q year. Since that date they