"As the gold product of the Transvaal in 1897 was $57,633,861, the increase in 1898 was $22,167,164. The figures here given are those published in all the leading papers interested in such matters in England and on the European continent. They are not, any more than the figures given below, official to the Bureau of the Mint. "I have not yet seen any figures of the total gold product of Australia in 1898, but the output of five out of the seven colonies has been published. The figures are as follows: -------------------------+----------------+---------------- | 1897. | 1898. | Ounces crude. | Ounces crude. -------------------------+----------------+---------------- New South Wales | 292,217 | 341,722 New Zealand | 251,645 | 280,176 Queensland | 805,928 | 918,100 Victoria | 812,765 | 837,258 West Australia | 674,994 | 1,050,183 +----------------+---------------- Total | 2,837,549 | 3,527,439 | | 2,837,549 | +---------------- | | 689,890 -------------------------+----------------+---------------- "There was an increase in the gold product of these five colonies of $13,107,910, the ounce crude averaging about $19 in value. The total gold product of Australia in 1898 was, as I estimate it, about $67,792,000. In 1897 it was $55,684,182. As yet no figures of the gold output of the two Australian colonies--Tasmania and South Australia--have come under my observation. "Persons not connected with the bureau, but whose opinions are entitled to respect, have estimated the increase in India's gold output in 1898 at about $500,000, and in that of Canada (including the Klondike) at $8,000,000. I have thus far no data on which to predicate an increase or decrease in the gold yield of Russia. The product of these last-mentioned countries in 1897 was: India $7,247,500 Canada 6,027,100 Russia 23,245,700 "The increase in the principal countries mentioned above, of their gold product in 1898 over 1897, reduced to a table, gives a total of $52,195,000, as follows: United States $8,420,000 South African Republic 22,167,000 Australia 13,108,000 Canada 8,000,000 India 500,000 ----------- Total $52,195,000