Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1886 — Important. [ARTICLE]

Important.

When you visit or leave New York City, save baggage, expressage, and $3 carriage hire, and stop at the Grand Union Hotel, opposite Grand Central Depot 613 rooms, fitted up at a cost of one million dollars, 11 and upwards per day. European plan. Elevator. Restaurant supplied with the best Hors a cars, stages, and elevated railroad to ad depots. Families can live better for less money at the Grand Union Hotel than at any other first-class hotel in the city. Dr. Kimball, director of the mint, has completed his report on the production of gold and silver in the United States during 1885. The production of gold is estimated at $31,800,00 », an increase of $1,000,000 on the est mate for the calendar year 1881. The production of silver for the calendar year 18X5, calculated at the coining rate in silver dollars, is estimated at $51,030,000, against $48,800,000 in 1884. The coinage executed during the calendar year at the coinage mints consisted of 47,544,521 pieces, of the face value of $56,926,810. Of this amount $3,002,313 pieces, valued at $27,773,012, consisted of gold coin, and 31,925.544 pieces, valued at $28,962,176. of silver coin, the remainder minor coin. The number of silver dollars coined during the calendar year 1885 was 28,697,707. The director estimates the amount of gold coin in the United States on January 1, 1886, to have been $533,485,453; of silver dollars, $218,249,761; subsidiary silver, $75,034,111; or a total stock of coin of $826,779,325.