Step Table of the state of the lawful money reserve (required by sections 31 and 32 of the national currency act) of the National Banking Associations, as shown by their reports of various dates during the year ended June 30, 1869. From the Annual Reports of the Comptroller of the Currency for the years 1868 and 1869. * The returns under this head for July and October, 1868, include some compound interest notes. Estimates by different writers of the production of gold and silver in the world since 1848. In the above table the values are given in millions of dollars, so that, for example, 1,428.4 denotes $1,428,400,000. Estimates of the production of precious metals in the United States during the nineteen years, 1849 to 1867, both inclusive. Adding to the mean of these figures my estimates for 1868 and 1869, we have a probable production of gold and silver, from 1849 to 1809. inclusive, of 1,278 million dollars, or an average of a little less than sixty. one millions per annum. The production of 1869 was not far from this average. R. W. R. FINENESS OF QUARTZ AND PLACER GOLD IN NEVADA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. After sending the sheets of this report to press, I became possessed of the following interesting and valuable table of the fineness of quartz and placer gold at numerous localities in Nevada County, California. It was prepared in 1867 for the report of Mr. J. Ross Browne, by Mr. J. S. Hittell, of San Francisco, and excluded from that report for want of space. A comparison of the localities on the same water-courses, and of the gold of the placers with that of the lodes which were probably their original sources, would interestingly illustrate some of the views which I have expressed in Part III of the foregoing report. But I must forego such a discussion of these observations here, and content myself with putting them on record: FINENESS OF NEVADA PLACER GOLD. [The figures opposite each locality show the fineness of the gold in thousandths.] INDEX OF MINES REFERRED TO IN THIS REPORT. A. Abercorn, White Pine County, Nevada.... Accidental, Mesilla County, New Mexico... Addington, White Pine County, Nevada Adelia, Mesilla County, New Mexico Page. 152 398 149 412 397 398 63 152 166 237, 245, 246 American, Alpine County, California. 46,670 398 192 191 92 302 149, 170 143 32, 33 149 141 81 58 42 398 149 167 29 149 167 398 398 130 170 186 135 135 60 311 187 400 187 201 171 142 398 374 245 166 278 178 329, 334 .149, 151, 185 135 .149, 151, 185 .329, 331, 332 |