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Show I GOLD AND SILVER PRODUCTION Geological Survey Says Nevada Is the Loading State for 1903. An advance sheet of the statistics of annual prodjctlon of gold and silver In the United States In VMQ has been received re-ceived from the United States Geological Btirv y, which contains the surprising I statement that In that year Nevada's out- put of the precious metals, due chiefly to the shipment of rich ore from Tonopah, mad" Nevada the leading State In the I Union In the production of gold and silver sil-ver In 1D03." According to th" "Mineral Resources of the United States" for 1!H2. Issued by the United States Geological survey, the production of gold In Nevada In Ifarj was f2.896.300, and $1,985.48? 'commercial 'com-mercial value) sliver a total of $i,8SO,7'6. As the advance Sheet states that the In-I In-I crease In production of gold and silver li Nevada during 1908 was 1492,700. the total output for ltl for that State ohould have been about lr.,.",73,oao s there are several S'at'-s which In IMS an- known to have produced conslderablv In excess of this nm.Mint, and In which the falling off If sny. In mineral production hni lieen com-I com-I naratlvcly slight. It Is clearly evident that Nevada, although Increasing production rapidly. Is still far from leading In the Output of precious metal. In 1902 Alaska producinl over Jfc.ann.ooo. which was Increased In 1!"S; California produced over $17.Mi.iavi tn l'2 atal nearly the sam In 1808; Colorado over W.O00 000'ln IMS and about $30000.000 in 103; Montana produced over tll.OM.000 In m; and nearly an much in 1903; South Dakota In 1M2 produced I n cr $7k'ki.i:0 and n arlv the same in 19' T'fnh's production In I!i2 was nvcr $9 (W) '. 000 and exceeded this in 1903, and Arizona produced 85,726.143 In 19"2 and showed an I Increase over this in I0u3. These figures merely Indicate that, al-tnoi al-tnoi -h Nevada Is rapidly increasing tier output of precious mi-tals. and that while the statistics for Ym will probablv show a tlll further Increase over 19'i3 that State Is not In the lead r.s Stated b the bull, tin of the United Slates survey, but really Is number seven In the list s |