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INCREASE IN PRODUCTION OF GOLD.
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predicate an increase or decrease in the gold yield of Russia. The product of these last-mentioned countries in 1897 was:
| India | $7,247,500 |
| Canada | 6,027,100 |
| Russia | 23,245,700 |
"The increase in the principal countries mentioned above, of their gold product in 1898 over 1897, reduced to a table, gives a total of $52,195,000, as follows:
| United States | $8,420,000 |
| South African Republic | 22,167,000 |
| Australia | 13,108,000 |
| Canada | 8,000,000 |
| India | 500,000 |
| Total | $52,195,000 |
"The world's product in 1897 was $237,504,800. In 1898 it will probably not be less than $289,699,800. My opinion is that it will be somewhere between $290,000,000 and $300,000,000.
"If any further information reaches me within a week or two, I shall be glad to communicate it to you.
| "Respectfully yours, |
| "George E. Roberts, Director of the Mint." |
Agents' Estimate, January 1st, of the Production of Gold in the United States far 1898.
| States and Territories. | Gold. |
| Alaska | $2,039,930 |
| Arizona | 3,185,490 |
| California | 14,883,721 |
| Colorado | 24,500,000 |
| Idaho | 2,273,902 |
| Michigan | 65,000 |
| Montana | 5,209,302 |
| Nevada | 2,959,731 |
| New Mexico | 360,000 |
| Oregon | 1,343,669 |
| South Dakota | 5,841,406 |
| Texas | 7,500 |
| Utah | 2,170,543 |
| Washington | 599,483 |
| Wyoming | 5,168 |
| South Appalachian States | 337,832 |
| Total | $65,782,677 |
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