Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1907 — U. S. MINT IS BUSY GRINDING OUT CASH. [ARTICLE]

U. S. MINT IS BUSY GRINDING OUT CASH.

People Throughout the Country Are Making Incessant . Calls for Money. ■ ■ il ~ ’ -n--GREAT YELLOW STREAM OF GOLD Millions of Dollars in Bullion Now Pouring in to Be Made Into Coin.. This is the busy season in the United States mint at Philadelphia. All the country Is calling for money. Every bit of coin-making machinery in the big institution is working overtime. Secretary Cortelyou has ordered the coinage of $00,000,000 In 20-dollar gold pieces within the next three months. The mint machinery has a capacity of 4,000 of these coins an hour. Meantime, there is an insistent demand from all over the country for silver coin of the smaller denominations. The mint officials have been wholly unable to supply these calls. ' Day and night, coiners, aasayers and the countless other si>edalized workers have been working overtime, some of them fourteen and sixteen hours a day. They have succeeded only by giving each city less than half wlwt was requested. Peremptory demands have been made for an unlimited amount of dimes, quarters, half dollars and dollars. Within the last two weeks $2,000,000 in gold has been coined. Every department has been ordered to get busy. About $40,000,000 in bullion Is already within the vaults. More Is com lng. It Is all to be coined without delay. Massive new machinery has been added lately and is now being tried for the first time, very satisfactorily. The mint officials are confident they can complete the task on time. The new Issue of gold, eagles will have forty-six stars around the edge Instead of forty-five as heretofore, Oklahoma having become a state. None will carfV motto “In God We Trust.” This motto was added in 1858 by Supt. James Pollock, with the sanction of President Buchanan, and after nearly fifty years has been taken off by President Roosevelt Tbe gold bulliou supply comes to Philadelphia by express and Is delivered in ordinary express wagons in charge of two men. The officials laugh at danger of theft The bullion is In bars, securely boxed, and so heavy to the box that a man could not run two squares with it without becoming exhausted.