Show GOLD AND SILVER OUTPUT the director ot the mint has issued revised estimates of the gold and silver production of the united states in 1904 showing important changes in his estimates made last january colorado to lorado utah and montana each produced nearly moro silver han they were credited with in the preliminary estimate while nevada and arizona were supposed at the beginning of the year to have yielded more of the white metal than subsequent investigation proves to have been the actual fact an overestimate of approximately was made in hc january report of the gold out ti of arizona while a similar error of was made in Ida host gold reduction and one of in aar of colorado these differences in lie wo estimates are however easily account d tor as that of january was a bosi nothing but a rough guess whereas the statement now published doubtless based upon the most reliable data obtainable tho mint director thought at the blob of tho bear 1904 that the county had produced in gold and ounces of fc ilver whereas a revision of the reports obtained from the precious metal producing states convinces him that jhc gold product amounted ta only and tha silver output to fine ounces |