GOLD, PRODUCTION OF
\ɡˈə͡ʊld], \ɡˈəʊld], \ɡ_ˈəʊ_l_d]\
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Up to 1830 the amount of gold produced in the United States was exceedingly small. In the next two decades an annual average of $700,000 was obtained from the mines in the Southern States. The discovery of gold in California raised the annual product to $10,000,000 in 1848, to $40,000,000 in 1849, and to $50,000,000 in 1850. In 1853 it reached its maximum, $65,000,000. In the decade 1861-70 it averaged $47-000,000; in the decade 1871-80, $40,000,000; in the decade 1881-90, about $34,000,000. In 1892-93 it was $33,000,000.
By John Franklin Jameson
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