Show PRECIOUS METAL PRODUCTION Director ttoborts of the U S Mint has given out his line I estimate of the production of gold and silver in the United States during the year 1001 it doer not materially differ from other I estimates those of the Geological Survey Sur-vey of Wells Fargo Co and of Mineral Industry l Ho makes the ylold of gold slightly less in thin country coun-try than it was the year before but very little loss l All the others make It a HUKj more but as we said the differences dif-ferences are small The decrease in Colorado as Director Roberts figures It is on account of the lower grade of the ovcsj and this decrease li5000 is large enough to overbalance the t gains In other States with a little help from eight other shrinking States Alaska showing even worse than Colorado with a deereaivi oC SlLSoSOO Utah showed a small decrease California showed die greatest gain In gold output out-put 1075200 very satisfactory too being normal Increase < < by development AYork Nevada showed a gain of almost al-most a million because of Tonopuh i and South Dakota showed handsomely In her Black Hills mines In silver l Utah led the procession in gain chiefly because of the increased product of Park Citys mines a very gratifying showing Most of the great silverproducing1 States showed diminished dimin-ished product Colorado to the extent I oC over two I million line ounces Montana 1 Mon-tana lOGUTOO Idaho SSULOO South Dakota Da-kota 458200 The total falling off In the I country at larye was of the value of nearly two million dollars The figures appear In the telegrams this morning and make excellent reading Utah will be on the other side of the gold column this year with a gain Instead of a loss |