Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1882 — THE MINTS. [ARTICLE]

THE MINTS.

Annual. Report of Director liurcliard. Mr. Burchard, Director of the Mint, has completed his annual report. It presents in detail the operations of the mints and assay offices during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1883. The imports of foreign gold coin and bullion for the first half of the year were $30,100,230 greater, but during the last half $28,311,047 less than the exports, the net gain of the year being only $1,789,183. The total amount of gold deposi ed was $66,156,653, which was $74,600,000 less than the preceding year, while the silver purchased for coinage and deposited in bars was about $3,000,600 greater and amounted to $33,720,49L The total coinage was 11,206,003 pieces valued at $89,413,447, nearly $11,000,000 more than in any previous year. The silver coinage consisted of $27,772,075 in silver dollars and $11,313 in fraational coin. Gold bars of the value of $37,505,120 were manufactured from 12,147,674 ounces of fine gold for depositors at the New York Assav Office. Fine silver bars of the value of $7,769,898 were also made, chiefly at the same institution. The purchases of silver for the coinage amounted to 23,627,229 ounces of standard silver, at a cost of $21,130,912. Of gold coin, about $87,000,(XX) belonged to the treasury, $104,0 o,ouo to the national banks, and $310,000,009 to the general public, including other batiks. Of standard dollars, $33,000,000 belonged to the treasury and $86,000,000 to the banks and the general public. Of the total metallic circulation, $148,000,000 belonged to the treasury, $112,000,001 to the national banks, and $441,000,000 was in general circulation. _________________ Certainly an elegant remedy for all aches and pains is St. Jacobs Oil, says Dr. J. Turner, of Shirrell’s Ford, N. C., in the Ravenswood, W. Va., News.