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The tollowins is a recapitulation of the estimates and tacts thus adduced
with regard to these mines:
Annual Vield:
For 1873 and 1874
5, 800, 300 dollars 12, 000, 0001.) value of vallion.
State Mineralogist.
tor the gear endins June 1875 . 11, 000, 000 dollars (2. 200, 0001) value of vullion.
Report of Director of Mint.
Pear 1373.
Actual result, 17, 000, 000 dollars 13, 400, 000 1. value of vallion - 1. 870, 000 Silver o219.
listimate tor 1876. on Col. Bertonis Report of first three months,
32, 000, 300 dollars 16, 400, 0001.) value of bullion .
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3, 630, 000
Daily Pield of Ore in Tons:
Pstimate in Mr. Raymonds Report, written early in 1373, 450
10 580 tons dails, average value, 150 10 160 dollars per 102.
Annual gield on this basis, 22, 000, 000 dollars 14. 400, 0001. 3
2,420, 000
Ullimate Lield:
Report of Protescor Rogers, adopted by Director of Mint, t Con.
solidated Virginia and t Calitornia Mines, orebody equals
an amount which at actual assays would sive 300, 000, 000 d01
lars 160,000, 0001.) as ultimate gield: but, to guard against
overestimatins, tates the assays as sivins 150,000. 000 dollars
130, 000, 0001. 1. This represents in Silver only
16, 500, 060
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State Mineralogist estimates ultimate vield of t Calitornia Mine at 85100. 000, 000
140, 000, 000 1. s. and estimated ore-body of ' Consolidated Virginia standing in sight
above the 1, 550 toot level, at 842, 000, 000 18, 600, 00011. Below that level it is incat
culable.
The extracts siven trom the Reports wich have veen quoted apply in the
main to two mines only of the whote number wich are situated in the Comstock
Lode, vut in many passages of the official documents reterence is made to the
mines of the Comstock Lode as a whote, and estimates are siren of their totat
produce. In the Report of the State Mineralogist an interestins Statement is
inserted in respect of the mode of formation of the Comstock vein, and the
orevearins character and distribution of ore, written by Baron Richtoten. 1t
will ve touna in the Appendix.
A Tabular Statement in the Appendix brings tozether a number of taets
extracted trom various official sources, and trom the evidence siven belore pour
Committee, on the mines of the Comstock Lode. Tese mines are in Storey
County. in the State ot Nevada: vut there are other Silver mines besides in
other counties of the State.
With regard to the total produce of all the mines in the Comstock Lode,
of course includins the Consolidated Virginia and Calitornia, Mr. Raymona quotes
an estimate tor the year 1875 of 50, 000, 000 dollars not deductins proportion of
Gold), addins that, e this is but the commencement of a new era in the minins
interests of this State.
The Director ot the Mint, whose report generally appears to ve characterised
by much caution, writes: The total production of all the mines in the Comstock
Lode may ve Sately estimated at not less than 50, 000, 000 dollars 10, 000, 0001.
i per annum, about 45ot which will ve Co1d. In this connexion it is interestins
1 to add that a production nearlo equal to that estimatea tor the Comstock Lode
may ve anticipated trom other domestie sources durins the year 1876: The
amount of 50, 000, 000 dollars 110, 000, 0001.) would sive of Silver 27, 600, 000
dollars 13, 500, 0001) I at production nearly equal to this, 5ay 4,300, 0001.
were added tor tother domestie sources, the totat estimated product of the
United States tor 1876 would ve 10, 000, 6001.
but the amount of 4,500, 0001. tor other domestie sources beyond the
Comstock Lode seems rather nigh, lookins to the ticures of Dr. Linderman
himself,
Several emall mines of the Comstock Lode seem to tie begond the boundary of Storey County,
and, on the oiher hand, Storey Counts includes sererat mines not in the Comstock Lode, but the vield
in both these cases seem so small oompared with ihe general production, that in the tollowins calou
lation the gield ot Storey Couniy and of the Comstock Lode may be treated as practically identieal.
Appendix 8.
Appendix 8.
Appendix 11.
Appendix 134.
ov ouxaxciartor or Strxk.
himselt, tor the fiscal years 187473. The Tables in his Report sive the tot
lowins results:
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i Total estimatea domestie production of the precions metals tor the gear endins
30th Tune 1873, 571, 946, 613.
1 Ot this amount, it is estimated that about 540, 000. 000 was 6018:
The total amount of Silver produced in the United States was theretore
In another part of the Report, the totat production of Silver vullion in the State
ot Verada tor the same period is siven at about 32, 000, 000 dollars, with the note
ot this total about 10,000, 000 dollars was probably 6o1d: This amount of
32000, 000 dollars 5r05s Bullion gielded in the State of Nerada, must not ve
contounded with the net amount of 32,000, 000 dollars net Silver, the aggre
sate amount ot Silver produced in the United States. But it is clear that il the
State ot Verada alone pielded 22, 000, 000 dollars of net Silver, the total amount
ot the remainins States could only ve 10. 000, 000 dollars.
The question then arises, now much of the 22, 000, 000 dollars of net Silver,
produced in Vevada, came trom the Mines of Storey County, and must ve set
donn to the Comstock Lode. The statisties of the separate counties allow this
question to ve answered. In the total of the State of Nerada, Storey County
is included as pieldins about 24000. 000 dollars gross Bullion. Takins the
general proportion of one third tor Cold, though the Mines of Storey County
really vield a hisher proportion, Storey County would have pielded 16000, 000
Aollars net Silver, leavins 6,000, 000 dollars tor the rest of Nevada, and the
result is as tollows:
Dollars.
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16, 000, 000
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Storey County .
6, 330, 000
Other Counties of Nevada

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10,000, 000
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Remainins States ot the Vrion
32, 000, 000
Dollars.
Accordins to these tigures, Storey County would have vielded exactly halt of
the whote amount of Silver in this particular year, vut the whote product of the
rest of the Union did not exceed 16,000. 000 dollars, or 3, 200, 0001. No large
increase veins reported etsewhere than in Storey County subsequent to Tune
1873. the expectation of a total of production equal to that of the Comstock
Lode trom other domestie sources, atter the great derelopment of the latter,
appears somewhat Sanguine.
The description of the Comstock Lode, and the estimates of its vield, have
thus led to the larger question of the total production of the United States. 1
nas just veen stated that tor the year 1676 the tigures of the Director of the
Mint, point to a sum ot avout 10,000, 0001. tor the year 1873 the official
tigures sive a much smaller sum.
Dr. Lindermanis Report tor the vear endins 30th Tune 1873, sives, as nas Appendix 9.
veen senn, an amount of 32, 000, 000 dollars, o2 6. 400, 0001. tor Silver, atter
deductins 6018. Later official information is containea in the exclosures of a
letter trom Mr. Bristow, the Secretary of the Treasury, addressed to the Presi
Appendix 21.
dent of the Senate, dated 18th May 1876. A tabular Statement there siven,
N0. 23)
apparently compiled on Mr. Raymonds ticures, sives the totats tor the gears
1874 and 1873, each a5 32, 000, 000 dollars, o2 6, 400, 66101. wvile that tor the
year 1873 is given at a hisher tigure, 112, a5 33, 730, 800 dollars, o2 7, 130, 8006.
These tigures appear somewhat remarkable
tirst, vecause the same amount is recordea both tor the gears 1874 and
1873, and tor the fiscal year endins 30th June 1873. whereas there nad
veen an acknoiteahea considerable increase in the gield of the Comstock
Lode.
Secondly, because, tar trom any allusion veins made to any tallins off
since 1873. the tact of increased production is throushout assumed.
Thiraly, because the Director of the Mint himselt puts torward an esti
mate tor 1876. wich, assumins an amount of 50, 000. 000 dollars, includins
6018, o2 27, 000, 000 dollars of Silver alone, as the provable pield of the
Comstock Lode, and anticipatins tor the same gear a production t nearly
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32, 000, 000 dollars.