The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-01-17

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illogical Survey, but early ngures in
dictate the smallest output since 1905,
when it was $SS,1SO,700. In 1906
the production increased to 1884,
373,SO0, in 1907 it dropped to $780,
435,70O, in 1908 it ross to $~94,56O,-
600, in 1909 it reached the high
water mark of ~$99,673,40O, in 1910
it fell to $96,269,10O, in 1911 it rose
to $96,S9O,000, and in 1912 it fell
again to $~93,451,5O0. For 1913 the
preliminary estimates of the Geologi-
cal Survey and bureau of the mint
indicate a domestic gold production
of SIS, 3O1,023, a decrease of $780,
All from the final figures for 1912.
The decrease is to be ascribed
mainly TO declines in the output from
Alaska, Nevada, South Dakota and
Utah. In Alaska the net decrease
of over $1,5OO,O0O was due in part
to the exceptionally dry summer of
1913 and the consequent water short
age for both placer and lode mining,
especially in the, interior, and in part
to further exhaustion of the bonanza
deposits of the Fairbanks district. At
Fairbanks, in the Innoko-Iditarod re-
giOn and on Seward Peninsula the
total falling off was about $2,25O,-
900, and the sluicing season was less
than half the normal.
On the other hand, the output of
the Ruby district increased over
$500, 900, the dredging output of all
Alaska increased about $450,0O0, and
the production of most of the Alas
kan camps was about normal. In
lode output a decline of 100000 is
indicated, chiefly from the Juneau
district, but this district contains the
famous Treadwell mines and prepar-
atoms were being made on a vast
scale for future production from SIM
liar great deposits of lOw-grade ores
near by. This district may eventually
become the leading gold-producing
Alaska to first rank in total gold
output.
In Nevada the gold output declined
about 10 per cent, or over $780,
OOO,. owing partly to a decline in the
average grade of ore treated at the
ly to a falling off in the output from
smaller districts. On the other hand,
the producti0n of gold from placers
and Tonopah ores of Nye county in
creased somewhat, and a considerable
Autput of gold was reported from
Ehurchill and Clark counties.
In South Dakota the production
of gold declined nearly 100000
from the record yield in 1912, but
the yield was still above the yearly
average for the last decade. The
great Homestake mines and mills
were continuously operated, but with
decreased output. In Utah, the fall
ing off in gold was over ~$675,00O and
was due chiefly to the exhaustion OF
the orebodies of the Mercur mines.
In Montana the gold yield de-
creased over 100000 principally in
gold derived from copper and sill
ceous ores.
In Colorado the net gold output
declined only about 100000, the
losses being mainly in San Miguel,
Ouray, Boulder, Gilpin, Mineral
(Creede), and Park counties, al
though these losses were largely Off
set by an increased output of over
$4,000 at Cripple Creek (Teller
county,, and increases in La Plata,
San Juan, Chaffee, Summit and
other counties.
Gold production was about normal
in Idaho and Washington in 1913
and increased over $4,000 in Ari-
IONA, nearly 100000 in California,
nearly 500, 600 in New Mexico, and
over 100000 in Oregon. The in
creased production in Oregon was
largely due to better yield from es-
tablished mines.
California retains fir t rank in gold
output in 1918, followed in order
by Colorado, Alaska, Nevada, South
Dakota and Utah. Increased output
on any large scale is hardly to be
expected from any of these states
in 1914, and indeed the total uomes-
tic gold production of the near future
may show further decline. From
present knowledge of our mineral re-
sources and mine development the
only large increase to be expected
in the zeal future will be obtained
from the mining of large deposits
of low-grade ore in the Juneau dis
trict of Alaska, and by the time these
are fully developed and producing
at highest capacity they may not
more than offset the decline in other
districts. The unremitting search by
p~rospectors for another Goldteld or
Cripple Creek has SO far disclosed
no new orebodies of equal import
ance. On the other hand, a consid-
'Arabla number of new placer and lode
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