Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1918 — MELT UNITED STATES SILVER [ARTICLE]

MELT UNITED STATES SILVER

Government Sends $1 $0,00,000 Bullion to Orient. Washington, Nov. 22. —More than 150,000,000 silver dollars have been taken from the treasury vaults in the last few months and melted into bullion for export to India and other oriental countries where large quantities of silver for email coins were needed to pay soldiers and for trade. A treasury report showed that the fund nos 490,000,000 silver dollars in the vaults six months ago has shrunk to $338,368,000.