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Excerpt from Statistics of Mines and Mining in the States and Territories West of the Rocky Mountains: Being the Eighth Annual Report of Rossiter W. Raymond, United States Commissioner of Mining Statistics
Since this report is the last which I shall have the honor to submit to the Department, I take this Opportunity to renew my thanks to the large number Of my professional colleagues and of other citizens to whose cordial assistance the value of this series Of publications is chie?y due. The means at the disposal Of the Commissioner would have been ludicrously inadequate to his work without such co-opera tion. Even this hearty and general aid has not fully supplied the lack of a thoroughly organized, paid, and responsible corps of reporters. But I think it may be said that no public documents have ever been prepared at so little expense which contained so much information of practical importance to the Government and the country. I am justi fied in believing, also, that these reports have been in?uential in pro ducing and advancing improvements in mining and metallurgical prao tice by which much money has been saved to those industries.
My sincere acknowledgments are due also to the Treasury Depart ment, and to the Director Of the Mint, since my work was placed under his supervision, for the enlightened support extended to me in the exe cation Of such plans as the means at disposal permitted me to form. It is not without regret that I terminate the public labors represented by these eight volumes. I trust that in this form, or a better one, the work may be resumed by other and abler hands; and I shall be well content to have contributed something, however imperfect to the prog ress and prosperity of the country in that department to which, by pro fession, I am attached.
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