Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1880 — Gold and Silver Product Annually. [ARTICLE]

Gold and Silver Product Annually.

The quantity of silver produced annually in the world amounts to not less than 6,000,000 pounds troy, and that of gold may be estimated at more than 600,000 pounds troy; the value of the silver being above £16,000,000, and that of gold not less than £28,000,000. The labor expended in mining for the silver ore in the deep recesses of the mountains, and that which is devoted to the washing of alluvial deposits—the relics of the cataclysms of former age —and to the tedious exploration of quartz reefs, represents a vast expenditure of vital effort. Even then we have still to draw upon the trained skill of the metallurgist before either gold or silver becomes fitted for use op ,»rnam-nt. Th>'