Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1894 — A Valuable Carpet. [ARTICLE]

A Valuable Carpet.

The woollen carpet which has covered the coiners’ room in the San Francisco mint for several years was recently cremated. By refining the ashes the Government recovered 279 ou&ces of gold, worth 15,500. The assessed valuation of the Uuited Stites Is &5, 000,000,000.