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Show Many States Produce Gold. Country Second In Value of Output but Leads In Silver. Washington. Gold Is producod in 21 statos In tho union, silver In 23 states, and tho United States leads tho world in silver production and comes second In tho output of gold, according to tho stntomont, covering '.ho year 1905, Issued by tho bureau of tho mint nnd tho geologlcnl survoy, which nro cooperating In doturmlnlng tho output of gold nnd sllvor In the United States. The total valuo for tho world for 1905 wns: Gold, $370,289,-200; $370,289,-200; silver, 157,339,902 flno ounces. According to tho report, gold and sllvor both are producod In eight of tho southern states, us follows: Alabama, Ala-bama, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, Car-olina, South Carolina, Tonnosseo, Texas nnd Virginia. Tho total number of ounces of gold producod was 1,205,712, and tho commercial com-mercial vnluo of the sllvor producod was $3 1,221,970. Tho nioHt Important chunges In gold production nro shown by Alaska, which advances from $9,1G0.500 In 1901 'o $1-1,925,000 In 1905. Colorado shob an Incronso from $21,385,800 In 1901 to $25 701,101) in 1905, due to freedom from labor troubles. Nevada shows a gain from $1,307,800 in 1901 to $5,359,100 in 1905 and n gain in sllvor sll-vor from 2,093,100 to 5,803,500 flue ounces. Tho total output of silver Is about 1,500,000 ounces under that of tho previous year, tho threo heaviest producers, Colorado, Montana and Utah, all showing a decline |