| Show ja the S orient drains silver aaby aa and gold sy from as america assy nevada mining press it Is to be hoped that contreas Con greas w some a of wy these aw das will quit playing politics and 1 pay some attention to aa tle af serious situation that threatens 4 business ff because of an monetary condition gold is cirra absy ing 1 a burden and silver production 7 Is falling off it an alarm ing f rate something nsf must be 2 done waa to encourage the production of bot metals j and to ai establish a ff ratio oo 00 gold and silver aw so PO that the to we 7 atals may share the burden aw aff of wak th N orld s va aarif finances rif effay to start with the excess ff profit tax should r be removed 0 bwy from metal mining sy and PO europe should join am z wis erica in jaff the establishment of lit ay it isrofff Is not be end the realm gayy of probability that y bryan r may i lp yet saw a force yf a Wi bimetallic plank ff cpr into the democratic platform y taff aavo aa the vw january wwava report of production uye and exports of gold and silver from asay ys ay the united states in 1919 issued by 7 w the bureau of mines department of w the cje interior paints a dramatic beryal pie ture of the dangerous faure that confronts fy the civilized abw world with f production of both metals 0 a va ing yiV and r the demand of s the creditor fa nations of the par east increasing a ay the y countries fi thit were directly f misri ir evolved in the ww great 7 war ff aws of europe w y y y including the united fe states 1 are 10 ing their stocks of the is precious me atals in europe 7 jS uV with its billions 07 of flat money exchange rates have dropped to an 7 alarming stage 7 in the united 11 states 0 of the foul fay large sy producing maw states aff mon ay tana ff alone waw produced yaw more than in the preceding bear an interesting phase vy of the w is the large aw percentage of silver that aylsa wyl sa war is recovered awa from copper lead and i zinc ores in alontaga Alon tana utah and ida MV awaa he the y by product from this sour aff 0 wt in alwi montana and idaho exceeded 89 wc waff ff per cent eky of the output in w 1918 ai mor tans has both flopper and lead zinc w mines w that operate abw on a As large se ao in normal times the awve aw silver vw prodoc afi yr tion of these states iw naturally Is at apa fectea by the market 40 for the baie mw which its s iver w Is as 13 socia ted in fc utah awa the principal affy output of akiwa silver comes az iwa from lead ores W in 1911 1 74 per aff cent ifer of the etc states prodie ff tion was from lead zinc ores in 1918 the w percentage yf was 58 8 in nevada ff wy there silver production Is largely af confined wy to ff w ores wa the out V WWW put from that source exceeding y wy 90 per cent production decreased w a from v 16 ounces in 1913 to 7 y ounces in 1919 there are no large developed lead silver way in nevada except a ureka which has been inactive for several fv years until liaa wi aa recently yvor the recovery j of gold and gilver from copper ores of isay nevada I 1 of small v consequence r the faff movement of both fa gold vi aid dilver WW from the ft united states shows a heavy drain particularly 1 of n december 3 china japan and 7 in a wv dia were the principal im porters during aff the latter part of wy the bear china took large quantities w of sa s1 ver and recently diflo has sy been buying faai f gold which 27 Is cheap when ceasur ed in the price of its commodities f for which v it demands wf and receives w silver in settlement 7 7 |
