Show FROM 18iS to 1832 American mines produced gold to the amount of 1600OCOGCO and silver to the amount of 600000000 or ajgrand total or 2200uuiuou W hero has all this vast sum gone wIt is said hat s not morel than SSOO000000 remains in this country in the form of coin leaving 81400000000 to be accounted for Allowing the liberal average jof J 810000000 annually for manufactures and arts there still remains over a billion dollars that has gone to swell the coffers cof-fers of the t rest of the world That Is to say about onehalf of the total of our gold and silver products pro-ducts has been exported to pay for the luxuries which foreign nations have supplied us But happily this drainage has now ceased and we are rawing on European hoards in payment pay-ment for our wheat corn cotton petroleum > and provisions With this healthy condition of trade and the prospectof maintaining onran nual production of 70000000 or 80000000 of gold and silver our country will soon be in a condition to laugh at panics and hard times |