126 THE president's ADDRESS. 



Take No. 1. — Here we have, as I said before, a list of tlie 

 principal copjDer producing countries of the world, with their 

 "outputs" since 1871. In that year we see that Australia 

 jdelded 6,500 tons and England 6,280 tons, — much about the 

 same, but now mark the difference that follows : the former has 

 gone on gradually increasing whilst we have been diminishing, 

 so that last year the figures are, Australia 12,000 tons, England 

 only 3,000. The largest producer in 1871, was Chili, her yield 

 was no less than 41,200 tons, out of a total production of all 

 the world, of 78,037 tons, but curiously enough, although 

 Chili production has varied much from year to year, reaching 

 one year (in 1876) as large an output as 50,740 tons, yet last 

 year (1883) the figures were a trifie less than in 1871, namely, 

 41,099 tons. 



The Mansfeld district in Grermany yielded in 1871, 3,895 

 tons, last year it had increased to 12,643 tons. 



Of course, — as we might all have anticipated, — by far the 

 greatest producer in the world is the United States. In 1871 it 

 yielded only 11,479 tons, not double the production of that year 

 in this country, but last year the United States figures as 

 producing no less than 52,080 tons out of a total of 193,454 tons, 

 or more than 60 times as much as the output of all England. 

 But one of the most remarkable facts of this table is that some 

 of the largest sources of copper supply at the present time did 

 not exist in 1871. I see that last year the Eio Tinto undertaking 

 in Spain produced no less than 20,472 tons of copper, whereas 

 in 1871 it figures only as 200 tons. Tharsis, however, is a large 

 producer, but so it has been for some years past, for in 1871 it 

 stood at 7,083 tons and last year 9,800 tons, showing therefore 

 but a comparatively small increase. There are besides, other 

 new countries which we may feel certain, in the course of 

 development by our hardy and indefatigable miners,, and by 

 the opening of new railways, will soon come to occupy prominent 

 positions in the world's market. I saw myself a few weeks ago 

 some remarkably fine stones of argentiferous grey copper ore 

 from a district recently "tapped" by the new Canadian Pacific 

 Railway, where it crosses the Main Divide of the Eocky 

 Mountains, and I am told that Montana and Mexico are proving 

 remarkably rich in Mineral deposits, which the the indomitable 

 energy of our American cousins will soon bring into the market. 



