Arizona republican., 1899-05-25
Yellow Metal Filling Up Against
 William J. Bryan.
PUSHING HIM OUT OF POSITION
Returns for inc Present Year So Far as Have Been Received h. diCafe a Possibility That fhe TotaI production of Gold for inc Year VIII Exceed Four-hundred r1iIIion Dollars.

Washington, May 24.-(Special)- )- Mn William J. Bryan will have to confront the fact next year, if he makes a campaign upon the alleged scarcity of gold money, that the pro- duction. of gold for the year available for monetary uses Will exceed the combined production of gold and Silver available for such uses as recently as 1896, when he made his last campaign upon that issue This fact has already been hinted by Mint Director Roberts. but is strengthened by the figures of gold production which are daily reaching the treasury department. The official figures for various coun- tries in 1898 are rapidly coming to hand, and indicate an increase in gold production alone of 5O.00O.O .OOO over the gold producion of 1897, which was $2S7, ,5O4 800.
 Returns for 1899 are already avail able to 8 sufficient extent to indicate another increase of more than $5O,- 000,000 over 1898. unless some unex-
 
 South Africa or Australia. which will carry the production for the current year to about $34O, 1000. .000. This rate of increase has now been running for several years. and it is believed at the treasury that the year 1900 can hardly Gail to show gold production of s40O. .O0O. 900. About s65. 1000. 900 will be required for the arts. leaving 1885, 000. 900 available for use as money.
 The gold production of 1896 was $202, ,6S2 800, of which about $13S, ,000.- 900 was available for monetary uses, and the silver production was S217.- 442.s 800 at the coining valns of which about $175, 1000, ,000 was available for monetary uses The whole amount of both metals available at that time, therefore, if the hints of the world had generally been opened to free of silver, was about s213000.- 900, which will be about $22, ,O00, 900 less than the available supply of gold alone in the year of the next presi- dential election.
 The details which fill up this strik- ing picture are drawn chiefly from the gold fields of South Africa, Australia. the Klondike and the United States. The South African production is known and reported monthly by cable. The total for 1898 was about sSO,000,- 900, being an increase of about S21.- 900, 900 over theproduction of 1897 The first four months of the present year have indicated an increase of 34 per cent over 1898, which would afford a total production for the year of over s106. 900. .000.
 The recorded production of Aus tralia for 1898 is about $6S 1000. .000. an increase of s12,OO0,OO over 1897. Every indication points to a similar increase for 1899, carrying the pro- duction for the current year to $7S.- poo, ,0OO
 Tie United States, which held first place in gold production in 1896 by margin of sS,O0O,O0O over Australasia. md clung to second place by neck n 1897, will drop below both the eading competitors for 1898. The official preliminary estimate prepared ,y Hirector Roberts in January put he production in 1898 at S65, TSP, GIT. This will be slightly modified by the inal revisions. but it is not likely to ,e reduced. The reports of the United States mint at San Francisco indicate that $16,32O,53 in American ,old was presented for treatment here. while the estimate of Director Burns puts the California product at lnly s14,SS3, ,721. The United States ,roduction of 1897 was $57, 1000. The increase of sS,OOO, 900 for 1898 will 'e duplicated for the current year and s likely to be increased next year. Arizona, Colorado, California, outh Dakota and Montana are making a tremendous fight to increase their product, and the hines opened in Washington romise to be an important factor in he near future.
 The production of the Klondike dis rict which appears in the returns for he Dominion of Canada was S6,027,- % for 1897, and SIS. 100000 for 1898. production of not less than $2O.O0O.- % seems to be assured for 1899.
 Other countries which will show increases for 1898 over s97 and again for the current year yer last year are Russia nd Mexico. Russia is likely increase very materially the roduct from the nver valleys r Siberia within the next few