Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-07-31

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The ST. Louis Globe-Democrat publishes
the following paragraphs. which contain
timely information about the coinage of
the world:
| wyoming has produced sS4S, 1886 Of gold
and $4,000 Of silver.
/ Greece has $4,000 of gold in circula-
ton to 100000 of silver.
Oregon has produced 81 6s6 of gold
and 500 of silver.
Colorado has produced $685. ,222 of gold
and $24, S00,9 14 of silver.
Nevada has produced ,267 of gold
and $104, 1s1, 259 of silver.
South Dakota has produced 5O,923,6 2 of
gold and $1,O51. S24 of silver.
Italy has $96.OOO.Oj, of gold coin in cir
| culation and $16,5Oo,OOO of silver.
The gold circulation in Belgium
| amounts to $54.00o,0OO. the silver to $54.-
800, 900.
| Canada has a circulating medium of
| $14, 100000 in gold and $5,O0O,OO0 in silver.
The Turks manage to get along with
$5O,O00,OO0 of gold and $44, 100000 Of silver.
| China is the silver country. The circu-
lating medium comprises $725 900 in sill
| yer.
| In Cuba and Hayti there are in circu-
| lation $21, OO0O 900 of gold and $4,400,0O0 of
silver.
| The amount of gold produced by the
worlds mines since 1892 is $S,S97, 1876 900.
| In Spain the people have in circulation
$40, 900 of gold and $155O00,O 900 of silver.
In 1894 the worlds production of gold
| amounted to $780, $780, of silver $2l5,-
| 100000.
In the year 1894 France consumed in
the arts $9,57O,240 of gold and $5,454.75O of
silver.
During the years between 1881 and 1890
the Production of silver in America was
81, POS, $4,000
The Russian jewelers. and gold platers
used in 1893 1884 1888 of gold and $3,117,OO0
| of silver.
Since the discovery of America the
mines of the New World have produced
s., 9OS, 247,0OO of silver.
Mexico is a silver country, there being
only $5,0O0,0O of gold in circulation to $780,
600, 900 of silver.
Idaho ranks fifth in the production of
precious metals, $35, 1853 of gold and
81, 1850, 1888 of silver.
The German empire, according to Off
cial reports, has $61S, 100000 gold money
and $215,0O0,0 600 of silver.
The value of gold as compared to silver
in the time of Herodotus, B. c. $50, is
said to have been 10 to 1.
Switzerland has in circulation an equal
amount of gold and silver or $15,000,OO0 in
each kind of metal
In the early years of the present CEN
fury there were in the world SO tons OF
silver to one of gold.
Soetbeer estimates that the amount OF
precious metals in Europe in 1892 was nc
more than eS3, 100000.
"a of enI6
every year used in the arts is $50 1S3, 73t
and of silver $50. SAC, 6S1.
Since 1881, according to Mulhall, Grea,
Britain's stock of gold and silver has re-
manned nearly stationary.
Egypt is a gold country. the banks AM
people of that land holding $12O,OO0,OOO OF
gold and SIT, 1000, 900 of silver.
Portugal is emphatically gold country
having $4O,OOO,OOO of gold coin in circula-
ton and only 100000 600 of silver.
Messedaglia estimates that the worlds
production of gold since 1892 has equalled
9,453 tons, worth Ell, 302, 100000.
In Japan the bimetallc system is en-
forced, the currency comprising $780, ,OO(
of gold and $81, 900 of silver
=. Sweden and Norway make much more
use of gold than silver; SOS, 000, 900 of the
former to $12 10000 of the latter.
. In the fiscal year ending in 1894 the
, United States had 1861 100000 in gold and
1852, 100000 in silver in circulation.
The year of the least production of gold
in this country since the discovery of the
California mines was 1888, $S0,000000.
According to Messedaglia, the worlds
silver mines have produced since 1892 $780,,
500 tons of silver, valued at e1,6N, 000, 900
5 The Austro-Hungarian empire is rich il
gold, it's people and banks having $12i
600, 900 in gold to only $S5,OOO,0OO in silver
The years between 1851 and 1860 were the
! most productive in the gold mines of thi:
country. The amount mined was 81, 332,
r 9Sl, 200.
a Since the beginning of the last cen
fury, the mines of the car of Russia
have yielded e72, 100000 of gold and 91s
100000 of silver.
> Since the foundation of this government
0 this country has produced all togethe
$2O13 1856 769 of gold and s., 296 $50, 900 of sill
| yer.
Between the years 1892 and 1920 TIN
:, amount of gold produced in America wa
$1O7, So, 900, and the amount of silver $54,
7OS, 900.
The gold and silver money of France i
estimated by the Bank of France t
$ amount to $500, 900 of the former an
$500 600, 900 of the latter.
The Netherlands make much more us
! of silver than of gold, their metallic cir
- culating medium being $19.0OO,OO0 of gol
= and $50, 900 of silver.
India is on strictly silver basis, gol
O not circulating to any appreciable exten
The currency comprises $3.50, OOO 900 in sill
n yer and $37, 900 in paper.
The total amount of silver purchase
l. | by the United States from Feb. IL, 1873, t
July IA, 1890, was 497,004,SS9 fine ounce!
n costing sos, S5S, 976
Since the discovery OF gold in Calforni
IL in 1919 that state has deposited in tn
United States minis $767, SOS, 764 of gold an
/ $4,2f1, 156 800 of silver.
J.. Jacob, one of the most noted of I'll
. German statisticians, estimates that tt
70 Roman empire in A. D. IA contained e35s
e. 100000 of gold and silver.
The United Kingdom of Great Brita
RS and Ireland according to the latest ST.