IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OF PRECIOUS METALS cxliii Gold contained in foreign base bullion, of the value of $39,973, was exported to England. The total gold exports from the United States during the fiscal year 1898 were as follows :
Items Value Domestic bullion (United States mint or assay office bars) Other domestic bullion Domestic coin Gold in copper matte and base bullion (custom-house returns ^81,345) Domestic ore Total domestic Foreign bullion reexported .... $1,000 Foreign coin reexported 4,935,020 Gold in foreign base bullion reexported . . 39,973 $1,507,535 469,115 8,402,210 178,700 160 $10,557,726 4,975,993 Total foreign Total gold exports $15,533,719
In the above table, the item " in copper matte and bullion, $178,700," 8645 ounces, fine, ascertained by the Bureau of the Mint, from the super- intendent of the United States assay office and the collectors of the ports at New York and Baltimore, has been substituted for the amount of gold exported in the form of copper matte and base bullion, viz., $81,345, con- tained in the custom-house returns to the Bureau of Statistics, Treasury Department. The value of the net gold imports for the fiscal year 1898 was $104,- 868,476, as against $44,609,841, net exports for the fiscal year 1897.
VALUE OF GOLD COIX AND BULLION IMPORTED AND EXPORTED, VARI- OUS YEARS, FROM 1850 TO 1898; ALSO ANNUAL EXCESS OF IMPORTS OR OF EXPORTS
Year ending June 30 — Exports Imports Excess of — Domestic ^ Foreign Total Exports over Imports Imports over Exports 1850 . 1860 . 1870 . 1880 . 1890 1891 . 1892 . 1893 . 1S94 1895 . 1896 1897 . 1893 . Dollars 2,046,679 56,946,851 28,580,609 1,775,039 13,403,6:32 84,939,551 4:3,321,351 102,068,153 r)4,487,354 56,218,307 106.934,336 39.152,522 10,470,371 Dollars 2,513,948 1,499,188 5,055,353 1.863.986 3,870,859 1,423,103 6,873,976 6,612,691 12,490,707 10.250.174 5.475.611 1,209,058 4,936,020 Dollars 33,635,962 3,639,025 17,274,491 S6,362,6.>4 50,195,327 108,680,8+4 76,978.061 66,468.481 112.4(19.947 40,361,580 15,406,391 Dollarfi 1,776,706 2,508,786 12,056,950 80,758,396 12,943.342 18,232,567 49,699,4^4 21,174,381 72,449,119 36,384.760 33,.525,065 85,014.780 120,391,674 Dolla rs 21,579,012 4.331,149 08.130,087 495,873 87,506,463 4.528,942 30.08:3.721 78,884,882 Dollars 77,119.371 44,653,200 104,985,283
^ Gold and .silver cannot be separately stated prior to 1864, but it is probable that the greater portion of the exports was gold.
