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Show JtlMMI tTATIirilH. Tlinrclal bullrtla laaued ly the Ccnaua Cfll ro ralallng lo the roduc-lion roduc-lion of the j recloui inetala, li a very lutrreatlng document. According to tho ntlmato of thla bulletin, tha production pro-duction of got I In tho Un'ted Rtatra during tho year IS5 amountwl to l,oS),6')9c)Un(-a, of a coinage valueof .i:,5S0,7ll. The production of illver amounted lo 91, VI Ml ounce., of a culnago value of l-H.VW.W. The goll iroiluct of tlm United Btalca la nearly twenty-eight tr cent, of the world' gold total, and our alive r pro duel la about forlj -one r cent, of tko world'! illver total. Durlnif. I8K9 Coloralo came flrat In tho yield of allvcr with 12-V 757,751; Montana een-ond, with 17,1 W,tl), and Utah a good third with l),017,01 1. .Neva.la, Idaho nud Arizona producel eich a little over all, four and twomllUoita rraiec-lively, rraiec-lively, AlaUma lira), Ceorgla $111, Huntli Carolina f2T2 and Virginia 113 00. Them are two Ktatea which produced gold but no allvcr In 1MV. Tiny are Maryland and Wyoming There are twenty-cue Ktatea and Ter-ritorlea Ter-ritorlea In the caUloguo of illver yielding yield-ing Hlal.a. California tlauila llrit In gold production pro-duction Willi $i:,o3tl,7.', C'oloralo aeeond with f3,fie3,M0l Nevada Itilnl wllh f vm.SUo, Montana fourth with H,1.1U,, and Dakota fifth with IV (CI 1, 1 37. Idaho I rodilcol tl.UM.IIII, Arltona JJn,l71 and Dull IST.iMifl. Alabama atauda tyweat III gold j reluct with mia and Arluua neat loueat with 1 1100. Thu total valuo of mining lant la .itat$iU,0IOr',4). In addition to thli louat la. given tha valuo of Inilla and reduction woika, which aro estimated at W,M).',172. Thla makea a total of over f ISfl.OOO.CKM. The tipindlluria ilurlng tha year, Including wages, value of lu pilar, etc , w ere M.1,oAO,OUO. Tho Cenaui Oftlcu re-e-elved thu nauiti of Kal.iKJI mining claim., or location!, tut It llmitnl IU llivtatlga-tlom llivtatlga-tlom relating to wages to produclifg, iiilura, loiulnea In ojeratlou but not iroduelug, ami to luluca temiairarlly auapended. Thli proccaa of exclusion resluced the number to about 10,000, but only rearti were received from 0,0V) pertaining to loductlon and Labor aUtlftlnk 01 then l,WJ wtru reported Idle, 1009 working but projuclng no bullion, HOS j reducing from JH) to 110,001, 101U li.a than $1000 and 417 from ! 10,000 lo $50,000. Only twenty-eight twenty-eight wererr.irtl aa reducing over $io0,000 each, and forty-four aa producing pro-ducing fur iSSO.iMO to (500,000. In the traduction of the precloui metala there wero 67,0 Ul )eraoni e m I toyed. The nveragn wagei waa $7111 a year, and thu average output r er man wai 517.2 a year. Them wero em-ployel em-ployel under ground 29".J mlnera, ave raging a wage pe r day of $1 07, an I JM daye ) r ye ar. Mechanic! ave rug 210 daya and $W7 r year. They rank hlghe-at In tho wage icate. ltladinicult to collect accurate sla. tlatlci ri gardln,; the production of got I. ltd Irought out generally In email iuantllleaau 1 by patalo mlnera acal-ered acal-ered over a wide field, who, for minj rcaaona, are riluctaut atniul giving truthful rcpoita. l'roni Largo inlnei, however, accurate and Intclllgtblo Information In-formation can alwayi bu received, but the data thui obtained form nn guide to the condttloni attVctlug imall luluei. The coli.ua oilier, It unlit In) admitted, haa done exceedingly well. |