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Show ' A Branch Hint. Still another difficulty intrudes itself. it-self. Where is our supply of refined bullion to come from, to keep a mint running ?( At the present time -we have only the products of' One or two mills, and the GermamV Works, ;in i condition for coinage, and this the i owners can realize more from by shipping ship-ping to New York and drawing against, than by coining into dollars and half dollars, and disbursing here at currency rates, for labor on mines. Mining Guzette. Which dimcnltv. like, nfhers i. re sented in the same article, is entirely a creature of the imagination. . Salt. Lake needs a mint, similar to oth er United SLttcs miuts, where bullion may be received on deposit, or pur- -chased, and weighed, assayed, refined, and coined. The cost of this work is fixed by law to cover labor and materials, mate-rials, with some incidental expenses;-and expenses;-and the owner cau ta2;o a gold draft on New York for the amount of hia claim, if he prefers paper due bills to coin. In our. article upon specie payments, a mint, etc., we have urged the advisability' of making silver legal tender in $100 quantities. This meets another point of the Gazette article : that silver is not legal tender; audfas to disbursing dollars and half dollars here at currency .rates for labor on mines, we trow that miners who would refuse silver coin to-day are so few that their presence is not manifest with a field glass. "A Miner" has something to say on the mint question, ques-tion, in another column. . |