Show SILVER PRODUCERS association SPENDING MONEY TO popularize METAL an appropriation of is being expended b by y the american silver producers Produce is association and the silversmiths guild in advertising to stimulate the use of silver according to frank M smith chairman of the minin mining g bureau of the spokane chamber of commerce who spoke at a recent luncheon meeting of that bureau mr smith is smelter director of the bunker hill sullivan mining and concentrating company of kellogg idaho with smelter offices in the paulsen building spokane last year the first year that the campaign was conducted was expended and this year said mr smith it goes into full page p age advertisements that appear in eastern magazines and that illustrate the use of silverware as bridal and anniversary goods As a result of the first year of advertising the business wa was s increased this year a ahr threefold three ee fold increase is is expected an appropriation of was made for advertising 1 year next mr smith is a committee member of the american america silver producers association whose members large companies in the coeur dalene region of idaho icho repress represent utah the southwest and elsewhere in the united states in in eastern silver canada and mexico they produce half of the worlds the association is trying to interest foreign nations in subsidiary coinage continued mr smith about ounces were bought by poland several years ago and to ounces by germany purchases by other nations will affect the demand but may not the price india would sell its silver to buy gold if the report of the royal commission is adopted the ounces it would dump yearly is a little more than our production so instead of being a market india would become a seller china is is the only buyer today and european nations are going on a gold basis this is the menace that confronts the silver producers we propose to induce our government to make re representations to the british against adopting the report of the royal commission great britain appears to be trying to get the reactions of the world by going on a gold basis I 1 believe they would exhaust our gold surplus |