The Brinkley argus., 1910-12-02
Large Amount of Last Years
 Production Disappears.
More Than t,3co Tons Of Precious Metal Minced Last Year, Accord ira to British Home Office
 American Miners Expert.

gold were mined last year. according fo inc British homo office. Much ot fhis precious metal has alreacy van iahed as completely as though 1t had never been taken from the ground What becomes of all the gold IS one of the perpetual mysteries which no government ever has been able to
 oiye Enormous amounts are sup
 ,sed to be hidden. or buried, in the ;arious countries. Iiueh of the solo turned into iewelry is practically lost to general observation. The rich ana the noble put away their most prec- ious gems for state occasions Ihey are scarcely ever seen by the public. The gold used In decorating the pal aces of the world is virtually lost to the general view. Even the gold ta- ken by the banks and bankers as their | coin reserves is often hidden in vaults 1 for years
 The gold mined last year is valued 1 ay s450. coo ,000 The British empire supplied 60 per cent. of the output or this proportion, one-third came from l the Transvaal and 15 per cent from l Australia. The United States gold mines turned out g per cent of the total production.
 The civilized nations Of the world are now burning up about a billion tons of coal year. gays the British home office. More than million tons in addition is wasted in the operation i.,t No of sfhl1 ok diamonds is being used at rate which may bring about the extinction of the visible supply in the present century
 fhe United States is still the great est coal producer-her mines contrib rting one-third of the total supply Great Britain is next and Germany is third. Then come, in order. the Aus ro-Hungarian empire, France, Russia and Belgium Almost three million persons are engaged in mining coal which is as many as are engaged in all other kinds of mining and quarry ing More than million coal miners work in Great Britain.
 Tn iron, as in coal, the United States is still ahead of all the rest of the world as a producer yaith an out put Of 16,000,000 tos 26,00000o tons q year The German empire stands second Great Britain third and Spain fourth, with 4.500, 900 tons.
 America leads, too, in the highest proportion of loss of life from aeci- dents in mines and quarries-3.42 a thousand persons employed. The low est rate is In France, 0.95 a thousand employees. It is a curious fact that while Great Britain mines only two thirds as much coal as the United States-206, ,000 000 tons, as against BIT 100000 tons-the.e are 972. GOO coal miners in Great Britain and only 690 GOO in the United States
 Turning now to wheat, the incom- ing crop in the North and South American continent is estimated by Dornbusch at 120,500 GOO quarters; that for Europe at 242,600 900 quar- ters; Asia at 53,000.00O quarters; | Africa at 6,550.000 quarters, and Aus l tralia at 10000. 900 quarters-a grant, | total of 432.800,0G9 quarters. This is 1 10000 GOO quarters less than the crop 1 of the year before. The United States now grows S2.o0000o quarters, slight l ly more than the Russian empire, and | almost twice as much as India In 1 the North and South American conti- nent Argentina is second as a wheat ! producer. and Canada is third In Europe, France is the second largest wheat producer, with 34000 000 guar ters; Hungary is third and Italy fourth. Norway grows only 5O000 quarters. but there, as in all the high countries of the north the people eat oats. rye and buckwheat Sweden, though in Norway's latitude grows 1 830,0 GOO quarters. Turkey in Asia
 grows 100000 quarters, and Japan i 2750.000 quarters. Algeria (4,000.00O
 quarters) grows nearly three times as much wheat as Egypt Germany. | Roumania Bulgaria, Argentina and h.
 dia all are going to have bumper
 wheat crops. The United States wheat
 crop will be 1O.000,000 quarters shy
 Of last year. it is estimated.