mouth, some sixty or seventy miles south of the former line, in such a way as to practically take in Juneau, or, at least, all the land immediately back of it. And the very latest official map, just published at Ottawa, while it runs no line southeast of Alaska, prints the legend "British Columbia" over portions of the Lynn Canal that are now administered by the United States. The post of Dyea, marked Ty-a or Tyea, on Canadian maps, which is at the head of navigation on Lynn Canal, and where the trail starts into the interior for the Yukon, which was made a subport of entry the other day by Secretary Gage, is claimed by the Canadians.

CHAPTER XI.

GOLD PRODUCTION OF THE WORLD.

The United States is the chief gold producing country in the world. We have held the lead ever since the discovery of gold in California, with the exception of 1894, when we fell to third place, surrendering first place to Australia and

the second to Africa. The United States regained in 1895 the place lost in 1894, its output of gold in the former year having exceeded that of 1894 by $7,110,000. In 1895 the gold yield of the United States was 2,254,760 ounces fine, valued at $46,610,000, while the yield of Australasia was 2,167,117 ounces, valued at $43,893,300. The latest reported findings, as it happens, will not properly be credited to the United States, but with the development of the fields actually situated on the Alaskan side of the boundary, there is almost sure to be such an addition to the product of the United States mines as to place them easily and permanently at the head of the gold-producing countries of the world. The largest production of gold in the United States for any single year was $65,000,000, in 1853. The next most productive years were 1852 and 1854, when the returns were $60,000,000 for each year. The least productive year since the gold discoveries in California was 1883, when only $30,000,000 was mined. Since then the advance has been steady.

The gold output of the world from the time of the discovery of America to the close of the fiscal year 1895 has been estimated at $8,781,858,700. The California gold field since their discov

ery in 1849 have alone yielded $2,035,416,000. The total output of the Australian mines, which were first worked in 1851, has been $1,655,713,ooo, and gold has been taken out of the mines of South Africa since 1890 to the amount of $211,632,990. The total production of the world in the last three years has been as follows:

1893-$157,494,800. 1894-$181,567,800. 1895-$200,215,700.

Of these amounts considerably more than 50 per cent. has come from the United States, Australasia, Russia and South Africa, as follows:

United States..35,955,000 39,500,000 46,610,000 Australasia...35,688,600 41,760,800 44,798,300 Russia. ..27,808,200 24,133,400 28,894,400 Dominion of