Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-09

article. Ter being Of such poor quality
comparatively that 1t does not bring
nearly SO good a price as the American
oil wherever In Asiatic countries the lat
ter is Obtainable.
Now, when one comes to consider the
total mineral products Of the various
countries of the world, 1t is shown by the
diagram that the United States is far in
the Lead. In 1899 our total mineral prod
ucts were valued at $3.50. 600. 900. Great
Britain came next with SAB, 600, 600. fol-
lowed by Germany with $40, 000, 900,
Russia with $40, DOC, 600. France with $780,
600, 600, Austria Hungary with sos, OOO, 900,
Spain with $44. 900, 900. Italy with $4,000
600. and Canada with $50. oo0, 900. What q
wonderful leap ahead we have made In
the last few years may e judged from
the fact in 1880 our total mineral
products to only $411 100000. So
rapidly have we been gaining lately nat
according to the of the Gen@ogiH1
cal Survey. our mineral output in 1943wiH
be approximately 1000, OOo, 0Oo-aM in-
crease of no less than 5000, 900, 0OOss over.
1899. III III
Curiously enough, in 1899, we pro1h1ced
about the same amount of value I'M gold
silver and copper respectively. In the pro-
ductiOn of copper in the United States is
far and away ahead of all the rest ut the
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pounds. Great Britain came next with
about 100. DOC, 600 pounds, followed by Spain
with 1O1, 900, 600, while Germany waSssfhlrd
with Sc, 900, 900. France, Russia 4 all
other countries contributed only about
230, 00O, 900 pounds. In respect to lead pro-
duction we were likewise ahead, with
about $50, 900, 900 pounds, followed IN or
der by Spain, Germany and GreatsBrit-
ain. IL
Naturally, an exceptional degree Of in
terest ATTACHES to the output of gold and
silver for 1893, comparing our own pro-
duction of those precious metals with
that of other countries. We We're not first
in respect to gold, being surpassed by
South Africa, and in the matter of silver
production we did not hold first place,
"all other North America" being some
ahead of us. However, Jumping sill
Yer and gold together, we We're very de-
oidedly in advance of all competitors. We
produced last year nearly $143, 900, 600
worth Of gold and silver, whereas all
other North America did not go much. be-
yond 500, 00O, 900. Our output of gold was
almost exactly equal to our output of sill
YER in value Representative, 234, 900,
worth of gold to 81, 493, 900 worth of sill
yer. A,
Our last years output of gold would
make 1877 solid blocks of the virgin metal,
each exactly a cubic foot. Or they would
compose a single cubical mass slightly
over ten feet ON an edge. Our production.
of silver for 1899 would form a sphere
twenty-five feet in diameter, which might
be rolled down Broadway in New York
without disturbing the pedestrians on the
sidewalks, inasmuch aus its axis would be
just about equal to the width of the street
from curb to curb. If the golden bricks
representing our production of the yellow.
stuff last year, each of them a foot cube,
were piled on top of each othsr-no small
+ n esy hy fhn n in n cr NJ oc nnoh RI at
them would weigh 22o pounds-they
would reach a height SURPRISING that, Of
the Eiffel Tower by seventy-seven fcet. Il
The manner i'm which our production; Of
the precious metals has grown may well,
excite establishment. From 1892 to 1874 our
total output of gold amounted to only
$21, $50, 900. In 1S4S it made a big jump,
and we took $40, 900, 900 out of the ground
in that year. 1t was $40, 000. 900 in 1S49,
$50, 900, 900 in 1850 and $50. 900, 900 in 1869.
High-Water mark was reached in 1858,
with S65, 600, 900 of gold. The exhaustion
of the placer diggings in California caus-
ed a diminution of the output tor a mum
ber of years, but now we are going ahead
again, and before long our annual produc-3
ton of gold will pass the 500, 900, 900 mark.
In 1861 this country produced only 81.
900, 900 worth of silver. Three years later
it rose to 81, 000, coo, and in 1871 oar output
of the white metal was $23, OOO, 900. OF
ooAHS SAS AAAAS Seo ISAA NAAS yin " INV
silver supply of the world, and will DOUBT
less continue to do SO, inasmuch as that
great range of mountains which forms
the backbone IF the continent Ill the way
from Alaska to Cape Hora IS literally full
of silver. The Old World produces very
little silver-less than $40. 900 800 worth
; per tannum against $3.50, 600, 900 worth for
North America and $25, 600, 900 worth FOR
South and Central America. At the pres
ent time, by the way, the worli's sotal
stock of silver is about equal to its total
stock of gold.
The worlds output of gold in 1890 was
$118, $50, 900, and not until 1896 did it pass
by a small margin the $500, 900, 900 mark.
Last year the total gold product of the
world was about 1926, 900, 900 and this year
it would ave reached $4O0. 900, 900 had it
not been for the wal in South Africa,
which has interfered with the working of
the mines of the Rand. The worlds stock
of money gold at present is about S.
900, 900, 000, which would mak a solid
block forty-two feet cube-the size of a
fairly large Notwithstanding 1882 long
tons. OF his total stock one billion dol
lars worth. or one-fifth of the whole, is
in the United States, in the shape of
:. coin and bars.
The total gold production Of the world
inc the discovery of America is given
by the mint bureau of the treasury as
follows:
Production.
1493-1600. ... . ~. 80. 49,. ....... S sol. $4,000
!, 1so1-170o.. . 49,. .............. sos, 315, eco
17ol-1s0O..... .......... ...... 1852, 8e5 CO.
1sO1-1S6o... :. =. ............ c,120, l44, 0o0
!. Decade 1S61-1S70.... ......... 1883, ITS, c01
Decade 1871-1Ss0 -. j.. ...... 1850. Sid. Goa
Decade lS81-1S90 ..... 80. -. 1,Os0, 055. 900
lS9l-lS99 ....... ). ........ =. 1857, 971, G00
! Total. 14ss-1sss. ....... 49,. 50. 1893. o5s. COZ
Total, 1493-1S6O. . 81, 491, 2O4, 900
Total. 1861-1S99.. s, 341, 855, 900