13th Aug. Agar we have received from Mr.
Rothwell, the very able and hardworking Editor of that remarkable volume published annually in New York, Zhe Mineral Industry, its Statistics, Techology, and Trade, 2 large sheet giving the complete statistics, in advance, of the mineral and metal production in the United States in 1897. The infinite labour and care, as well as hard cash, that are expended in the collection of these statistics can be well understood; their accuracy in proved by the fact that they are used by European Governments in their official publications. The mineral and metal production recorded on this sheet, Mr. Rothwell tells us, "was the largest in the history of this or any other country; they almost equal in value the production of all Europe, 589,092
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