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During the year 1907 the price of platinum declined in this counÂtry and abroad, according to the table which follows:
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PRODUCTION.
UNITED STATES.
Consistently
with this decline in price, the production in the United States, which
had risen with the high prices of the year before, showed a decline
from 1,439 ounces of fine platinum, valued at $45,189, in 1906, to 357
ounces, valued at $10,589, in 1907. Of the 357 ounces produced in the
United States in 1907, 300 ounces came from Butte, Del Norte, Humboldt,
Placer, Plumas, Trinity, and Sacramento counties, in California, and 57
ounces from Coos, Curry, and Josephine counties, in Oregon. The
domestic production since 1880 is shown in the following table:
Production
of crude platinum in the United States, 1880-1900, and of refined metal
from domestic ores in 1901-1907, in troy ounces.
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