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 piled by years, 2sl ,ooo,oo The long-continued struggle which re- ls

 suited in separation of Spain from

 the American colonies, caused very

 great reduction in the product of the

 mines for many years. According to

 ''the returns obtained by the British

 consuls in South America, of the pro-

 duce of the mines at different pe-

 riods," their aggregate yield, exclu-

 siye of the mines of Brazil and Peru, s during the twenty years ending with

 1929, was l 65, ,S72 ,6l5; which es-

 tinating the pound sterling at $4 84,

 amounts in dollars to SIG, ,4O3, ,45(

 According to this result, the annual average product for that period was $l5, ,820, ,l72, which is believed to have s been greatly under the true amount The returns of the consuls were deficient in tH respect to several of the provinces, and present a result far below the estimates of Mir. Jacob for the same period, which .'t. amounted to the sum of $500, ,765 ,9ls, s-g4. or at the rate. of $l9, ,53S, ,295 per an- .sf nun. Afier alluding to the increase in frt' the annual products of these mines, and afa to ssthe considerable quantities. afford ,8a. cd by other mines throughout the world, ,a,i including the Hungarian and Saxon lsl. mines, the Russian aud other European Ht- mines, and the mines of the U. States, -i5a the writer remarks: "We may safely si..s. estimate the entire annual produce of ,if the Amefican. European, and Russo. il Asiatic mines as amounting, at this mos sn ment, (ls34,) to about i6,000 900 a a! year;" which, in dollars, amounts to i1ss the sum of $29,040,000 per annum. ss At this rate, the whole aggregate of the f.i produce of the mines of the world, lex -.it elusive of the African gold dust, and iei other sources not mentioned in this ti work.) from the year 1929 to the pre- 3..a sent year, (lS4l) amounts to sl9,44o.00C 