ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
To
all those 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, and
the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce of the Department of
Commerce, 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. To the authors of the Survey mines reports on the
production of gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc in the Eastern,
Central, and Western States and in Alaska, Messrs. A.H.Brooks, B. S.
Butler, J. P. Dunlop, C. N. Gerry, V. C. Heikes, Charles W. Henderson,
and Charles G. Yale, the writer is especially indebted.
PRODUCTION OF GOLD AND SILVER IN 1914.
The recovered output of gold and silver in the United States from domestic ores and gravels in 1914 is shown below.
Approximate
distribution, by producing States and Territories, of the production of
gold and silver in the United States for the calendar year 1914, in
fine ounces.a
