GOLD AND SILVER. 175
The gross yield for 1882 shown above, segregated, is approximately as follows:
Gold, 32.67 per cent........................................... $30,193,355
Silver, 54.27 per cent.......................................... 50,155,288
Copper, 4.39 per cent........................................-. 4, 055, 037
Lead, 8.67 per cent............................................ 8,008,155
92,411,835
Alluding
to these figures, Mr. Valentine says : " California shows a decrease in
gold of $1,690,351. Nevada shows a total falling off of $1,484,188; the
yield from the Comstock being $1,333,018 as against $ 1,726,162 in
1881, a decrease of $393,144. The product of the Eureka district ;s
$3,176,656 as against $4,127,265 in 1881, a decrease of $953,609. Utah,
Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona each show a notable increase on the
products of last year. The increase of transportation facilities for
carrying bullion, pig metal, ores, etc., has increased the difficulty
of verifying the reports of products from several important localities,
and the general tendency is to exaggeration when the actual values are
not obtainable from authentic sources, but the aggregate result as
shown we think may be relied on with reasonable confidence."
Mr. Valentine's statistics for thirteen years.—The
value of the gold and silver production of the States and Territories
west of the Missouri river during the past thirteen years, as estimated
by Mr. Valentine, is shown in the following table, from which the
production of British Columbia and the west coast of Mexico, and the
values of the lead and copper, have been excluded:
Mr. Valentine's estimates of the,production of gold and silver in the States and Territories west^of the Missouri river from 1870 to 1882, inclusive.
