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Ch. 1: Gold and Silver in 1889/90

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GOLD AND SILVER.                                     49
the year 1890 the Annual Report of the Director of the Mint on the Pro­duction of the Precious Metals in the United States, published early in 1891, is taken as authoritative.
The following table shows the production of gold and silver in the years 1889 and 1890 by States. The production of silver is given both in ounces and in dollars, United States coining value $1.2929 per ounce.
Production of gold and silver in the United States in 1889 and 1890.
The number of mines from which statistics were obtained by the cen­sus and reported either as producing in 1889 or as doing development work, but not producing, or as temporarily stopped, but likely to pro­duce in the near future, was 6,004. Besides this there were some thou­sands of small diggings, placers, washings, gulches, claims, locations, etc., which could not be classed as mines. The relative importance of the 6,004 mines is shown in the following table:
Relative importance of producing mines.
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