ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
To
the thousands of men engaged in the mining and metallurgical
industries, to merchants, bankers, and transportation officials of the
United States and Alaska, to the Bureau of the Mint, the Post Office
Department, the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce of the
Department of Commerce and Labor, and to other officials, public and
private, who have cooperated with the United States Geological Survey
in furnishing information on the production of gold and silver,
acknowledgment is most gratefully made. This cooperation is each year
more freely given, and the results are correspondingly of inÂcreased
value, not only to those directly concerned, but also to the public at
large.
PRODUCTION OF GOLD AND SILVER IN 1911.
GENERAL STATEMENT.
The
production of gold and silver in the United States from domesÂtic ores
in 1911 is shown in the following table in distribution by States:
Approximate
distribution by producing States and Territories of the production of
gold and silver in the United States for the calendar year 1911, in
fine ounces."-