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Show iHiiiii: dui.s mi: liuui (to toi What becomes of tho gold? This Is a question which au exchange uts and nt the same time attemi ta to reply to It. Hlnee tho discovery ot the metal In California to tha present time Ihe Untied Htattihas produced $1,000,. IKV),0OO In gold. These aro the figures of the Superintendent of Ihe Mint. According to bis report tho lital amount tn coin and bars, on Decern ber.'ltst, 1B0I, In the Uulled Htatra was dSt),0U,Jll, This latter amount was knowu to lie In the country In the slmpuof coin and tan In the mint, In the treasury andluiosBesilonof banks, (fold exports to the amount of .7,000,. OiU can 1-u acuouuted for, and do can IVOO.OOO turned Into plate, Jewelry, gold lonf,deuliss' foil and so on. Hut all this only argrrgatis about I7s0,. 000,000, which subitrtcled from $1,-900,000,000 $1,-900,000,000 lravta over $1,10(1,1100,000 iinarcoiinteil for. Tralo retuma be twien tho United Utatn and l.urofo from lSd to Ib'Jl Inclusive, show nu excess of exports from Kuroto this country oter export! from hero to I.uruoof 5173,000,1100. This sura, It lssuppoeil, wasMldln gold, but still about 1700,000,000 remain unaccountid for. How muoh li hidden away by thrifty ierons wko nre tlietr own bank eriiaunevtrbo accurately eue ertalned. Vat quautltlea of gold have been buried and, perhaps, lost forever. Some has, been sunk In thu una with lost erne Is and so on. Hut still the Interrttlng jroblem cornea up, what liecouis of tho gold? In rounl flgiin the United Htatrs produced up tu the present nineteen hundred millions of dollars lu gold. Kho haa uow lu litr bank!, mints auel treasuries, only about toveu hundred million!. Tor plato and Jewelry the used about four millions, and paid four hundred and seventy-three millions for foreign goods. That loaves about in much gold unaccounted fur as there Is now known to be In tho form of bullion and currency In thecountry. |