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DESCRIPTIONS OF MINERALS. 
making in all nearly $14,000,000; and in 1876, the Comstock lode 
yielded $18,000,000, and the rest of Nevada about $1,838,000. 
The yield of the United States in gold in the years 1870 to 1876, is 
stated as follows in a note dated February 5, 1877, by J. J. 
in Jones’s ‘‘ Report of the Silver Commission (1877)” : 
18202 ae ee ee $38,750,000 
107, OL RUE ORR Re 34,398,000 
1a Te Bae Ree ae 38,109,395 
Oper Ake). oedema Bee 39,206,558 
1674 sta Sa ae 38,466,488 © 
155 ee 39,968,194 
AGNG hee Lito: SOT ae ein 42,886,935 
Valentine, 
The amount, in 1874, from California is stated at $17,620,000 ; from 
Oregon, $609,000; Washington, $155,500 ; Idaho, $1,328,430 ; Mon- 
tana, $2,850,000; Utah, $92,000; Arizona, $25,700; Colorado, §$2,- 
102,487 ; Mexico, $84,555 ; British Columbia, $1,636,200. 
According to the Report of A. del Mar, in the ‘‘ Report of the Sil 
ver Commission of 18/7, 
1492 to the year 180, was $1,872,300,000. 
a 
Bd) fe 
the yield of gold from all America from 
From 1800 to 184/ inclu- 
sive, 48 years, the yield from America, HKurope, and Africa is stated at 
$429,200,000 ; and from 1848 to 1876 inclusive, 2) years, $3,881,500, - 
000. 
The largest annual amount was produced in the year 1856, 
in which the yield was $147,600,000 ; and next to this, in 1859, with 
$144,900,000 ; as shown in the annexed table, giving the amounts 
in millions of dollars : 
- 2 e eee 
“ee eee 
es eer ee 

1859 
1857 
ee ee 
- ee e- 
cc oes 
see ee 
ee eee 
1836..... 
see ee 
144-9 
122°2 
114-0 

1868. 109°7 
LS69.-e 106-2 
S002 ae 106-9 
1871 107 0 
[sia ee 99-6 
TSS. cde 97-2 
1874 . 90°8 
IST 2 97°35 
LST6 0 oe 90°0 
The total amount for these years is $3,881,500,000. The following - 
table is taken from a Report to the British House of Commons in 1876 
—the amount for the United States only being ccrrected : 


Russia. 
1850 ...|$16,950,000 
1855....| 14,200,000 
1860 15,265,000 
1865. 16,135,000 
1870 22.070,000 
1875 20,000,000 


United 
States. 
$27,500,000 
73.700,000 
46,000,000 
53,225,000 
33,750,000 
40,000,000 

Mexico and} 
South 
America. 
$5,000,000 
4,500,000 
4,000,000 
2,500,000 
3,750,000 

Australia. 
$60,325,000 
52,500,000 
44,100,000 
29,150,000 
28,750,000 
Other 
Countries. 
$2,500,000 
2.500,000 
2,500,000 

2,500,000 
2,500,000 


$155,725,000 
120,765,000 
119,960,000 
89,970,000 
95,000,000 
