Evening star., 1939-07-09

abundantly with Singapore" "Rio
De Janeiro," Honolulu" and other
stickers, drew back when her
change included some of those sill
yer dollars"
II don't care for that, haven t
you some paper?"
"She had probably been out here
before" shrugged the clerk.
Most establishments have learned
through the tourist that it's good
idea to have bundle of dollar bills
handy, but the impression persists
that loyalty calls for pushing the
circulation of silver.
Many Fasteners visiting the West
for the first time look upon the sill
yer dollar as a novelty during their
stay.
However, it is common for many
OF these to retain at least one silver
dollar as souvenir of their vaca-
ton trip.
In fact, Western bankers report
they put into circulation many more
silver dollars than are ever paid
back in. The tourists carry them
off, either joining in the spirit of
the thing and spending them else
where, or saving a few to surprise
the grocer or the street car con-
ductor when they return to paper
dollar country.
Fasteners Retire Cartwheel.
just as the Western clerk shoves
the silver dollar right back at the
next customer, the Eastern business
man. on the rare occasions when a
"cartwheel' shows up, puts the
metal stranger in with his bank de-
post and removes it from circula-
ton.
1t Is strange to the Westerner
brought up with weighty jingle
OF silver dollars in his trousers pock-
cts. that mere coins should become
such an issue.
The silver dollar belt" extends
roughly from the Rocky Mountains
westward, but even the Pacific Coast
thanks to the great American tour
ist, is rapidly becoming paper money
conscious.
Los Angeles, because of the great
horde of visitors, is gradually for
saking the iron man"
oh. You're from the North -
exclaimed typical shopgirl there
upon being rendered a silver dollar
North might have meant San
francisco, where considerable hard
money still circulates; Portland
Seattle or Salt Lake City.
First Minted in 1894.
The United States Treasury minted
the first silver dollar in 1894. the
head" bearing a profile strikingly
similar to George Washington. but
with the flowing hair of a woman
Rudolph Orlob, Salt Lake City
business executive, has accumulated
one OF the most complete private
silver dollar collections in the
country. His coin book contains
all but six of the some 100 dated
issues, including the 1894 rarity.
Collectors declare that the rarest
dollar is the 1904 issue. Only l9.57C
were minted. Treasury reports show
and the popular theory is that vir-
tually the entire issue went to the
bottom TO the sea when a vessel
en- route to China was shipwrecked
Coin experts know of only three
1904 dollars in existence and place
their present value at almost $4,000
each, said Mr.. Orlob.
The Treasury report indicates nc
silver dollars have been minted
since 1885. In all, the Government
has turned out 855 66l.153 silver
dollars and IS .965 ,924 trade dollars
The latter were necessary in the
middle l800s for the China trade
the willy oriental refusing the regu-
lar American dollar on the basis
that the silver content wasn't up
to par.
But, as Tenor James Melton told
a hotel clerk when he checked out
after a concert appearance in an
Idaho city and received a handful
of "cartWheels" in his change:
Now I know what makes the
cowboys out here boWlegged."
RESoPTS