Show UTA AND 8111113t lr1o < lIo or IIWIto Metal Greatly Dlinlnlihliig Lnltetl State Output divine erOo concerning the gold mil silver output of hto United States ror 1897 the New York Engineering and Mining Journal says that six states Colorado Montana Utah Idaho Nevada and Arlzunaprodu 95 Percent Per-cent Of the ollvor There Is a Ida difference My tile Journal between Montana and Utah which was tile third producer In rank and which had an output of C CW75I ounce The decrease In silver values was probably felt more In Utah than In any other state and In com hlnatlon ulth the elgl1honr low and other local ld causer It has had the cited il efi g of closing down two of the large silver mines the Ontario and the Daly nt Park City though both of them were large producers In IS07 The silver return re-turn of Utah In IS94 Is I likely to show n Considerable decrease The gold output of the United States In 1S97 reached a total of 2bil1576 line ounces or JS92107IW on amount which exceeded by ID324 686 or 12 per cent the high total of 1806 and by I123SOC93 or 20 4 per cent that of 1595 This Increase In-crease keeps the United States at the head of the gold producers of the I world Its total for LOT exceeding the S5C618 C79 reported > for the mines of the Transvaal by 12 C92 118 while 11 was I more by IS7S10SC than the total production pro-duction of tile seven Australian colonies I col-onies No other country except Russia approaches these three leading pioduc ers In the amount of gold furnished I or total 1 was sonicullat over one fourth of 1u entire el production of the worM 1he total production of silver In the Unlloo States In 1897 of dorne tic orlglu woo 56457202 One ounces or 131014233 01 the commlal value of 6036 cents on ounce This was a decrease from ISD6 a mull one only the difference beIng be-Ing 031MS ounces or 84 per cent The difference In values was much greater the average commercial price of the metal having been CO 35 cents per ounce In U97 and C71 cents per ounce In 1896 W I ill regard 10 the average price of 00 3r > cents an ounce we have adopted In the table the figures given to us by the United States mint bureau Our own Average however as orke1 out front the daily quotations of the metal In New York Is I 6179 cents nn ounce The difference Is 0 CO centiwhlch would make a difference of J31C1C1 In the total value of the product |