The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-05-16
Where Money is Made.

"Ho!" / hear some New York BOYS
say; "no need to tell US that. Every
body knows that New York is the place
to make money. Look at the men in
Wall street. !" lisaI95i --.aHArE ~s[4-e.I
Indeed D. And whatwin you say if /
tell you that there is not a dollar. of
money made in New York nor in Chi
cago, neither; though I know my young
friends who live there are eager t. speak
up and claim the honor. There are
but three cities in all the Union where
money is actually made; that Is, where
metals are coined. The principal mint
of the United States is in Philadelphia.
Here are made all the copper and nickel
coins-7one, two and five cent pieces
and large part Of the gold and silver
coins used in the country. There are
also branch minis at San Francisco and
Carson. And at these places gold and
silver coins Of every value are coined in
great quantities. 9tGs adt 1Hifif1tti5
Those of You who have been in Phila-
delphia will remember, on the north
side of Chestnut Street, near Broad, a
Grecian building of white marble, some
what gray from age, with tall CHM
ney rising from the center, and the
United States flag flying from the roof.
This is the mint. Let us climb the long
tight of steps and enter the building.
On the door is a placard: "Visitors
admitted from to r." The door opens
into circular entrance hall, with seats
around the wall. In moment a polite
usher, who has growngray in the serv-
ice of the Institution, comes to show us
all that visitors are allowed to see.
"Wheht thelgold has been weighed, y
says our guide! " it is locked up in iron
boxes, and carried to the melting-room,
where it is melted and poured into
molds. - @'.s'' .f'5'
A small piece is then cut off, and its
fineness is ascertained by long and
delicate process called assaying. This
decides the value of the lot! The de-
position is then paid, and the metal is
handed over to the meter and refiner.
to pc entirely freed from its impurities
and made fit fol. coinage.
And a hard time it has of it, to be
sure Nothing but pure gold and silver
could ever stand such treatment. 1t is
melted again, dissolved in nitric acid,
squeezed under immense pressure, baked
in hot cellar, and finally carried to
This dingy-looking room, at the left of
The court yard, where we have stood all
This time. The metal is perfectly pure
now, but before the final melting one
5enth of its weight in copper is added
% it, to make it hard enough to bear the
rough usage which it will meet with in
travelling about the world.
The room would be dark but for the
iery glow of the furnaces which line
'ne end of the place. On, these are "a
number of small pots, filed with red-hot
liquid metal; and while we look, a
Workman lifts one after another, with a
pair of long. tongs, and pours the glow
ng gold in streams into narrow iron
nolds. ..,eaii.., !
We would gladly remain Longer,
'eering in at the glowing fires and the
'warthy figures Of the workmen, but
,ur guide is already halfway across
he court, and we reluctantly follow.
topping aside to make room for a |
workman with his burden of silver bars. |
which he is carrying to undergo the
olhng process. The, rollers give the
METAL the form Of ribbons, from which |
mother machine punches the planchets /
which are the coins before thew are
nilled and stamped.-St. Nicholas for I
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SALLY LUNN...Dissolve tablespoon
III of butter in pint of sweet milk: |
7hip the whites Of eggs to a /
tiff froth, and beat the yelks and egg
upful of pulyerized sugar light; STIR
ne yelks and sugar in the warm milk, I
nd add coffee-cups of sifted flour, 5
saspoonfuls of yeast-powder, and the /
mites of the eggs; pour the butter in a
reased cake-mold, and bake in quick
ven 80 minutes.