The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-01-02
Secretary COrteIyOu's
Announcement On the
Subject.
IN GRE ASED OUTPUT
For All Operating Plants of Govern.
ment-.--$6O, 100000 In Gold
Coin TO Issue at Once.

Owing 20 the need for more coin
and paper money to meet the de-
mands OF trade during this period of
financial stringency the money fac
tories of Uncle Sam are working over
time. A night and day schedule was
recently put In effect by the secretary
of the treasury George b. Cortelyou
In the effort 10 increase the amount
lof money in circulation. the govern
ment has been putting In operation
| all the agencies that have to do with
coin or its equivalent in value, and
for months 10 come there will be
busy times in these places.
Within three months of the time
the financial stringency began to ex-
cite general attention. there will have
been delivered into the hands OF the
people $50. 100000 in gold double
eagles. The machinery of the phil
adelphia mint is capable of grinding
out 1000 double eagles an hour. All
these coins, in consequence of the re-
cent order of the president, which has
been so much discussed. lack the time
honored motto. In God We Trust.
To keep turning out such an amount
of coin as comes from the Philadel-
phia mint at this time means con
stant replenishing of the stock of
bullion on hand When the new
Cunard liner Lusitania recently
brought across the Atlantic a large
shipment of the glittering yellow
metal. $I0,0OO.000 worth was sent
TO the Quaker City money factory. In
the vaults of the institution some
$4,000, 600 was already reposing,
bringing the quantity available for
feeding 70 tie machines mp to $34,-
900 900.
Work on the coinage of silver dol
lars and subsidiary silver money is
also going on at record breaking
speed at the various minis of the gov
eminent. In the process of making
one OF the dollar of The daddies"
the steps are about as follows. 4
silver brick worth about 1900 is
taken from the room where the bull
lion Is stored and conveyed to the
melting room. where il becomes short
slabs called ingots The ingots pass
10 the cutting room, where ponderous|
steel rollers flatten them out, and
they are then treated by heat so as To-
become pliable. and after a process
10 make them the same degree of
thickness they 90 To the cutting ma
chimes. out of which the metal comes
In the form OF blanks
These blanks of silver are called
planchets. and after they come from
the cutting machines they are in
specified. weighed and subjected to
the milling process, which consists
in putting - ridge on the edges to
prevent the design later imprinted
from quickly wearing off. They are
then annealed and oleansed In a So
luton of sulphuric acid and fed to
the presses, in which they receive the
imprints from the dies according to
the denomination Of the coin to be
stamped. In the coinage of gold the
processes are similar, but differ in
details. The selecting machine in use
at the Philadelphia mint works with
what seems human intelligence. The
blanks Of metal are fed into the ma
chine through a vertical tube the size
of the diameter of the blank. and the
pieces are conveyed into minute bal
ances finely adjusted TO grains, and
by a complex arrangement OF parts
are shunted into conduits according
TO their varying weights-light.
heavy. standard or condemned.
Through these eonduits they are de-
livered to the proper reeeptacles a,
the discharge end of the machine.
The standard and accepted light
pieces are then ready for milling.
In the stamping process hydraulic
presses are used. which are each ca
pahle of delivering blows of from 500
TO LOO tons. After the coins go
through the various processes Of
weighing aud assortment, they are de-
livered in bags containing a certain
number each and are distributed to
the several sub-treasuries.-E Elk
change.