Show I PRECiOUS METAL El PRODUCT IN LAST CAlENDAR YEAR an I Figures Obtained by Director I of the Mint till i1 UTiH IS FOURTH IN RANMi i i I vey dls Two Millions Mare Production reeL clay Will Place State Third Ju ink t1 k a tt the I that I Director Roberts Believes That This An Will 3s Done Within a Year ot He that So What Figures Show late V f ttio rlh > oke i 1 11 TRIBUNE BUREAU t i IS Postal TelecrMpli BuildIng L jhic Waahlngtoii D C Aug 5U J Mi 1OUt Director of the MJnt Roberts favored 0V The Tribune correspondent I today with Fe j J a look at the fiRtirud obtained by him Intly regfrelln the production of precious I tilt a Y metals in the United States during the last calendar year They have not been I I given out for publication ua yet some of the figures being subject to minor correction but those shown In he following fol-lowing table are approximately cor a recto I t I INCREASE IN 1 GOLD PRODUCT win ° I The totals show a slight increase In LCC1 the production oC gold ana a very slight ira decrease in the production or silver au I cot compared with 1003 The production of J roM in Alaska vas two million better at II than in 1S01 but is I no larger than was jjjj t produced therG In 1910 iare b HI UTAH HOlDS HER OWN rnjl Utah holds her own as fourth in rank Jjli I C of the I precious metalsproduclnp ndl Staten roucl position Montana is just ahead of her With the produc trE lion of some two millions more of metal Utah can dlyplaoe Montana from the third place in rank Director Roberts thinks that this may be done in a year or io HL suitl tba chec wcrr un ioubtnily vast Hior H c4 weultli In the I ihnunriiJiis of ITUtli which have not even a h been touched tin NEVADA PCtLING TO FRONT > bi i and Idaho fl il 1 Nevada coiies seventh eightii in rank tluir combined output ei C Itahs But Ne tn buliitir iibotiL iuul to 1I1 l li > vada is on the high rooil to suucess h3 Nevada hums more tliun doubled her out I put of silver Take It by ounces In p fl 1100 she urorluced 1I3S70I and In 1901 h t 111 her mines yielded lSl HOD ounces Last year the production was 3710200 ounces the thus inaklnff an enviable record It Is I safer to say that Nevada Mnll not long remain seventh in rank AS TO IDAHO And there is room for improvement in Idaho History tells how million dIn d-In irold was washed from the surface of that State in tile curly fiOs If there was than much on the smface there should be many tIme that much still hidden in the mountain PRODUCTION IX J502 l It 01 Silver Oold Commercial nice Vauf Value J irma tl V 301 Culormto l S USTtM Im502 > for trmdrt luIJOil TiJt Ci fl 1011lua 1mOI 7tl1ll I Ienl 1tuh VtfitluO 1 3iUU > pei Alaska w Si 15500 JS70H wl South Dakota rfiMVitOj 1JOSW t Dbe Xuvadn ft i53iy 1lSI > Idaho l75CO JVHKUM I United States WMWO 211jftv i Iiii Total Unit land l-and Sllv h Conmiprrlul < I m Vaiui Colralo 5 M77GSM 11 > b t lVTO52t 1 i Cullfornin uufalln n 1i2Sl 1 11 J Utih 1 nni jy Ahska n V JW South Dakota n 1JiiO I fo Nevada 1 < v irm 15iIHl th IdHI 1 i tJv United States 103H50 brln SILVKK UY OqKCES n > Cnlnradn i5ii7Jf40 xva CJihiirnlr L cV Montana 10S3l ltnh 5LV > 0 L f A1t1llclI n SoniJj Dakota L I X ldg Nevada SlwJ iT frua Idaho II io min United Slates |