Show DEMAND FOR SILVER w Believed That Day Is Approaching When Mints Will Have to Open Despite the increasing number of coon coun countries tries tiles that have adopted the gold stand standard standard ard for their currency systems the con consumption consumption of sliver continues almost un an unabated abated says the Denver Mining Reporter The subject of demand and supply of silver Itna recently been revived due to the reported exhaustion of the supply of silver bullion at the Philadelphia mint and the consequent of coinage Just Juat how long the coinage of silver can be suspended may be a question but it Is probable that such coinage must ultimate ly be resumed and in feet fact maintains with considerable regularity The nations of the Orient constitute a vortex into which vast quantities of small silver coins are ame poured annually only to be immediately absorbed The Tho demand is apparently insatiable and the disappearance of this enormous quantity o subsidiary silver coins constitutes one oneo o t time the enigmas of modern commerce The FIm mints ts of England are turning out millions of dollars worth of small silver coins annually for the population of India with no evidence of a m tho demand Whether title this demand for subsidiary coins will have the effect of forcing resumption of silver coinage in the United States mints is a question which will probably be answered shortly |