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more than 1500 feet, and the increased production of the last few years is chiefly owing to deep diggings. To show this increase, the following from Rossiter W. Raymond, United States Commissioner of Mining Statistics, is given, published last May in the Engineering and Mining Journal:

The total product of silver in the United States since 1848, is estimated as follows: From 1848 to 1858, 1866 10,000,000 inclusive, $50, - 1867 13,500,000 000 per annum. $550,000 1868 12,000,000 1859 100,000 1869 13,000,000 1860 150,000 1870 16,000,000 1861 2,000,000 1871 22,000,000 1862 4,500,000 1872 25,750,000 1863 8,500,000 1873 36,500,000 1864 11,000,000 1865 11,250,000 Total $186,800,000

The same authority estimates the suns of the gold product of the United States, from 1847 to January 1, 1874, to be $1,240,750,000.

For the past two years, J. J. Valentine, General Super- intendent of Wells, Fargo & Co., publishes the following :

STATEMENT OF PRODUCT OF PRECIOUS METALS WEST OF THE MISSOURI RIVER, FOR 1875. States and Territories. 1875. 1874. California $17,753,151 $20,300,531 Nevada 40,478,369 35,422,223 Oregon 1,165,046 609,070 Washington 81,982 155,535 Idaho 1,554,902 1,880,004 Montana 3,573,609 3,439,498 Utah 5,687,494 5,911,278 Arizona 109,093 26,066 Colorado 6,299,817 4,191,405 Mexico 2,408.671 798,878 British Columbia 1,776,953 1,636,557 Total $80,889,037 $74,401,055

 

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