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Appendix 66.
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Appendix 66.
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axpour vnou run Sntxer connirruz
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tor the year 1874 10
1875 10
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-
13, 500, 000
14, 200, 000
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L.
20,000
30,000
-
400, 000
-
900, 000
1700, 000
2, 323, 000
1859
1860
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1861
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1862.
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-
1863
1864 1868, average
1870
1871
1872
1873
1874
1875
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-
-
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the estimates tor the totat production are theretore as tollows:
in the years previons to any supplies trom the United States
Mexico and South America
Other Countries
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L.
6, 000, 000
2,000, 000

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To24l - - L.
5000, 000
To241 - - L.
16, 300, 000
In 1872-
United States
Mexico and South America
Other Countries
5 750, 000
5200, 000
2, 000, 000
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-
-
Tora1 -- L.
12, 950, 000
In 1574-
United States
Mexico and Sonth America
Other Countries
6, 400, 000
5800, 000
23000, 000
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-
-
To241 -- F.
13, 400, 000
tThe Statisties are given in dollars in the official paper, and are here converted into pounds
sterlins, at tour shillings a dollar.
In the years 1864 10 1867. when the pield in the United States nad con„
Siderably developed
United States
Mexico and South America
2, 360, 000
Other Countries
6,000, 000
-
-
2000, 000
T0
3,200, 000
4, 600, 000
5 750, 000
73150, 000
6, 400, 000
6, 400, 000
the Silver production of all other countries nas also veen represented to your
Committee as comparatively stationary since 1862. It is taken at a little over
2,600, 0001. annually.
the production of Silver in Mexico and South America is represented to
have veen very steady. The annual amount is estimated at 6000, 000 1. tor the
years between 1832 and 1867. It nas since veen supposed to have tallen to
5000, 0001. notwithstandins a decided increase in the Caracoles Mines. Except
tor this circumstance, il the ticures are at all trustworthy, the decline in the
pield would have veen greater.
The latest estimates of the Commissioner tor Minins Statisties of the pield of
these Mines are the tollowins:
Accordins to every estimate, the increase in the production since 1870 is
wholly accounted tor by the increased pield in the Mines of the United States.
Pour Committee, in a subsequent part ot their Report, discuss the provabte
production of the mines of the United States durins the last two gears, and
examine the discrepancies in the various estimates: but even on the basis of the
lowestticures, the immense increasetrom an annual average of betweens, 000, 0001.
and 9, 800, 000 1. 10 the sum of 14. 200, 0001. will ve at once observed.
missioner tor Minins Statisties: vut tor the years 1874 and 1875 he nad not
the tinal official estimates of that authority velore him. Those estimates have
now veen receired, and, when substituted tor the tigures previously given, brins
donn the totats:
ou oxraxcrartov op Strvtk.
lo arrive at the present time at the total annual production of Silver, the
vield of all other countries should ve taken at about 7,000. 0001. and the pro.
auction of the United States should ve added to that amount.
Pnovveriov op Stvan tw rux Uvrrzo Starus.
1. The pield of the United States Mines durins the year 1873.
2. The estimates tramed tor that pield tor the year 1876.
Pour Committee have caretully considered:
And they have especially examinea all the available information officially
turnished with regard to the development of the Mines of the Comstock Lode,
which have s0 largely contributed to the total 7ie18.
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tour Committee, wvile they telt the extreme importance ot obtainins tull
information in respect ot these Mines, which are certain, in so large a measure,
to affect the tuture price of Silver, nevertheless abstained trom callins witnesses
with regard to them. They considered that only persons intimately acquaintea
with the Mines themselves would be competent to speak with tull knowtedge on
the subject: vut such persons, unless specially appointed to inspect the Mines
by some Covernment authority, would provably be interested in the success of
the Mines, and their evidence coula scarcely ve treated as attoxether impartial.
Onofficial estimates of the value of these Mines, it adopted by a Com.
mittee of the House of Commons, might ve utilieed tor speculative purposes,
rovile pour Committee would have veen without the poier to check or
substantiate their correctness. On the other hand, pour Committee nave n0
resitation in sivins a prominent place in their Report to the official statements
made, as to the capacity of the Mines, by Covernment authorities in the United
States. 1 must, nowever, ve distinetly understood that pour Committee, in
sivins publicity to the information conveyea in these statements, do not in any
way make themselves responsible, either tor the statisties which are put torward
in them, or tor the opinions expressed.
The tollowins official documents have veen received, extracts trom which are
printed with the evidence:
Appendix 9.
The Report of the Director of the Mint, United States, tor 1874- 73, containing-
4 Report ot Protessor Rogers on the Consolidated Virginia and Calitornia Mines,
151h November 1873.
Report on Statisties ot Mines and Minins in the States and Territories West of Appendis 8.
the Rocky Mountains, tor the year 1874. 69 R. Raymond, United States Com-
missioner of Minins Statisties.
The Biennial Report of Mr. Whitehill, the State Mineralogist of the State of Appendix 11.
Vevada tor the gears 1873 and 1874.
The Report ot the Secretary of the Treasury on the State of the Finances tor the Appendix 10.
year 1875.
Petter trom the Secretary of the Treasury, transmittins, in answer to a Senate Appendix 21
Resolution of 161h March 1876. a Report of the Director of the Mint, Showins N0. 23.
the Production of Cold and Silver in the United States and in other Countries
of the World, trom 184s t0 1813, inclusive.
Reports trom Mr. Booker, English Consul at San Francisco, tor the gears 1871. Appendix 13.
1872, 1873, 1874, a28 1875.
Information as to the new mines is siven in most of these documents, vut
they also furnish valuable data with reterence to many other important points
connected with the Silver question.
the recent discoveries of nighly productive Silver Mines have mainty veen
on the 50. calledt Comstock Lode. The director of the Mint States thate. the Appendix 8.
lacitie Coast was surprised by the reported discovery of an orebody in the
Comstock Lode, which surpassed in extent and richness all others previously
met with: Ot these Mines, the Consolidated Virxinia Mine, together with the
Calitornia and the best and Belcher Call worked by the same parties, torms
the newest and apparentiy the richest group.
Mr. Witehill, the State Mineralogist tor the State of Nerada, writins Appendix 11.
in 1873 of the Consolidated Virginia Mine, States, that e aurins the past
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3380
15 4000