LINDGKEN.] 



GOLD PRODUCTION OF IDAHO. 



Production of gold in Idaho, 1877-1896. 



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It appears from the tables that the total production of the State for 

 the first six years scarcely exceeded. $41,000,000, according to the Mint 

 statistics, and that consequently the Idaho Basin can not have pro- 

 duced more than a fraction of this amount. Even admitting the more 

 liberal estimates mentioned a few lines below, the total production for 

 this period can not have exceeded $60,000,000. As to the production 

 of the Idaho Basin itself, the data available are still more imperfect. 

 For 1867, 1868, and 1870 there is in Raymond's reports for 1869 and 

 and 1871 an estimation of the total production made by W. A. Atlee, 

 agent of the Wells-Fargo Company at Boise, an authority probably 

 better qualified to judge than anybody else. This includes not only 

 Wells-Fargo shipments, but estimates of all kinds of shipments. 



