The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-04-04
GOLD PRODUCTION FOR 1907

GOLD PRODUCTION o 1907
cording to figures supplied from Washington by Director Leach of the
L United states =, mint I'M v snow, ca = 1I pr,sse.H 1r sv ra.1 m,aos sector. .~r' had the the
same relative falling of, Alaska dropping ss1ooooo. Colorado s21ooOoo South
Dakota s2oooOoo. California s1.5ooOoo, Montana ssooooo' Arizona s9ooooo
and the other districts by lesser amounts
Nevada aloneo of all the gold districts enlarged her output overt that OF 1906
her increase according to he conservative U. s omcialo being approximately
s5,5ooooo.
The figures of the director of the mint are manifesny too low for
erins statistics Of the output # the state, he admitted to The News that his
at Carson CITY, ut not so easy to gt the eturns OF oes set from this state to
shelters at Instant points All the smelling 0re gss on IF Nevada. to Salt Lake
serby or Denver The output of Nevada is given It $147o465s, WHEREAS the
output of Gddded alone vas $11,7e6soo II is possible, though not probable
that h total output of the rest Of the state vas only ssoooOoo.
According to the omcial reports. Nevada was the third largest gold producing
state Of h Union in 1907 not taking Alaska inoco consideration. Colorado still
retains her lead with nearly s21oooOoo; California comes second, with $4,000.
900. But both these states showed a decrease over the year previous. while
Nevada made a gain of ssOOoooo. With the m increase this year.. Nevada
win jump into rstp place. Blu; the increase for 1908 will De more than s5OoOOoo
Goldheld alone will increase her output by Is per cent, 1t least. Although some
of her largest properties are holding back to await the completion of mills sew
sl rich leases viii add their output to thu total Beside oodhed is promised
an immunity from strikes this year. Last year the mines were cosed down over
Then there are various new camps coming in, and several Of the old oese entering
the bullion stage, such IS Bunfrog and Manhattan, an W predict that the con-
sentative staistGian Of the United States mint will give Nevada credit for
s25OooOoo for the yar 1908.
South Africa increased its output by sls6ooOoo overt that for 1906; that the gold
fields OF Australasia fell short about s75oooo of their yield of 1906; that the
mines of Canada, including those of the Yukon, fell short nearly s4OOoOoo Of the
preceding years output; that the yield OF the mines of Russia fell short nearly
increased about $780, oo and all the rest # the world, in the aggregate cutting
a comparatively small figure in gold production, the yield for 1907 vas about the
While Nevada Increase the preceding years yield by s55ooooO. the rest of
the gold districts OF the United States fell hort s1os25oooo of the figures reached
III 1OUO. Novdud . Su yNu iA 1uo mSe snco JooAoI 70 gwen 40 ~SS"roo ~
1905, s927sO00 for 1906 and 81 704OOo for 1907
South Africa has continued to increase its annual product with the same
apparent unfaiing regularity. In December there were 141 800 actual miners at
work in the Rand district alone. $4,000 Of them Chinese and most If the others
Kamrs, native blacks that have gradually beer supplanting he contract labor
Chinese, who are being ant home more than 10000 Chinese having been thus
displaced during the year.
Other pars Of Africa ao increased their gold output Rhodess gained
about 10 per cent over the product # the preceding year, and the mines of the
West African coast and Egypt are credited with a gain Of about 20 per cet over
their yield in 1906 In Australasia, where mining has developed to great depths
the IRE in the lower levels larerry has been showing a poorer grade
According to John McIeish If the department of mines Of Canada, Canada
reached its maximum gold production in 1900, with $27 0O00, but since then has
steadily fallen short Of that securing in 1901 $24OO0OOO, in 1908 $4,000 600, in
1906, 100000 and this last year but 100000.
1907:
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North America 100000
Australasia 74,70OOO0
Russia 100000
South America 113OOOO0
Last year tine gold yield Of Mexico alone was sl9OoOOOo. or 100000 more
than that OF all Russia, ard within 100000 If the combined gold yield of all
South America an India.
In the aggregate the gold yield of the world for 1907 ws approximately
$9OO0O 900 greater than for 1906.
How the gold sections of the United States compare among themselves and
with the gold territories Of Australasia and the gold districts of India, is shown
In the following setso Of fgure, giving the yield from ZACH section for III year
1907:
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