The Brinkley argus., 1910-11-25
lNUCH gO[D EOS
Large Amount of Last Years
 Production Disappears.
Moro Than f,soo Tens ss Prse'oue Metal Minced Last Year. Aeeerd- Ing to British Home oMses-
 American MInsrs gxpert.

gold were mined last year. accordin9 to the British homo ofnos. Much 0x this precious metal has already van ishcd 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 solve Enormous amounts arc sup posed 10 be hidden. or buried. In the various countries. Tiuch of the gold turned into 1ewelry is practically lose to general observation. The rich and tho noble put away thsir most prec- ious gems for state occasions. They are scarcely ever seen by tho public The gold used in decorating the pal aces of the world is virtually lost to the general view. Even the gold h. ken by the banks and 5ankers as their coin reserves is often hidden in vaults for years.
 The gold mined last year is valued at t450. .00o. .o0O. Tho British empire supplied so per cent. of the output. Of | this proportion. one-third came from the Transvaal and 16 per cent. from | Australia The United States gold mines turned out 22 per cent. of the 1 total production.
 l The civilized nations of the world are now burning up about . billion tons of coal year. says the British home once. More than a million tons in addition is wasted in the operation l of mining so that the store of black diamonds" is being used at rate which may bring about the extinction of the visible supply in the present | century
 l Tho United States is still tho great est coal producer-her mines contrib uting one-third of tho total supply. l Great Britain Is next and Germany is third. Then come. in order. the Aus tro-Hungarian empire. France. Russia and Belgium. Almost three million persons are engaged in mining coal. 1 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.
 1 In iron, as in coal, the United States is still ahead of all the rest of tho world as . producer. with an out l put of 1s,o00.000 to 26.000. 900 tons q year. Tho 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 acci-
 dents in mines and quarries-3.42 thousand persons employed. The low
 est fate 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.. 900 tons, as against
 77.000,000 tons-there are 72.000
 coal miners in Great Britain and only
 s90.ooo in the United States.
 Turning now to whsat. tho incom- ing crop in the North and South
 American continent is estimated by } Dornhusch at 20.5O0. 900 quarters:
 that for Europe at 2A2.sOO. 900 quar-
 ters; Asia at 53,0O0. 900 quarters:
 Africa at 6.56O 900 quarters. and Aus
 tralia at 10.0O0.0O0 quarters-a grand
 total of 43z,s00. 900 quarters. This is
 20.000.000 quarters less than the crop
 of the year before. The United States | uON 8iOWC oS,VVV.VVV Qu6EtCFS, rfS"t-
 ly more than tho Russian emrira and
 almost twice as much as lndia Tn
 the North and South American cont
 nent Argentina is second as wheat producer. and Canada is third Tn
 Europe. France Is the second Ia -gest wheat producer. with 24000.0o0 auar
 tors: Hungary Is third and Italy fourth. Norway grows only 50.000 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 s30.0o0 quarters. Turkey in Asia grows 4000.000 quarters. and Japan 2.750.000 quarters. Algeria (4.000 900 Quarters) grows nearly three times as much wheat as Egypt Germany, Roumania. Bulgaria. Argentina and In- dia all are going to have bumper l wheat crops. The United States wheat crop will be 10.000.000 quarters shy of last year. 1t Is estimated