People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1894 — The United States First Among Gold-Producing Countries. [ARTICLE]

The United States First Among Gold-Pro-ducing Countries.

Washington, June 13.—1 n a report on the production of gold and silver, which was transmitted to congress Tuesday, E. E. Preston, director of the mint, estimates the approximate gold yield of the mines of the United States in 1893 at 1,739,323 fine oqnees, of the value of $35,955,000, as compared with 1,597,100 fine ounces of the value of $33,014,981 in 1b92, an increase in 1893 of 142,223 fine ounces of the value of $2,940,019. According to Mr. Preston the United States still holds the first place in the list of the gold-producing countries of the world.