Show GOVERNMENT WILL MAKE INSTRUMENTS Delicate Constructions of Platinnm for Use In Federal Laboratories to Be Supplied. The United States government in the future will manufacture all platinum instruments for use in its own labo ratonea according to the first annual report of the director of mints which was received yesterday by Charles Oammon United States asaayer Each year the government recovers a con siderable qusmtitv of platinum at the various mints but heretofore it has been sold to the highest bidder Since the war in Europe Bnssia tbe largest manufacturer of platinum has been unable to supply the demand On ac count of this chief!' the United States government has provided plants for melting and spinning the platinum and will reserve enough each year to care for its own wants. Robert W Woolley director of mints expresses a decidedly friendly feeling toward the government assay offices and takes the posit on that that depart ment should sene the public n a man ner similar to that of the department of agriculture. In other words he figures that each office should be prac tlrallv self sustaining but that it should be at the service of the miner and the prospector In line w th this idea he has authorized the any of flees to assay ores as well as metals and has reduced the charge for such service fron 3 to $1 |