Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-09-17 | Page 2 | "Cent" Sticks in the Memory of Gold Vendor

"Lent" Sticks in the Memory of Gold Vendor U. S. Assayer Gammon Is Shocked by Dealer's Interrogation. T tHAT did you do witl Hip ''''nt7' 'r'ie question was f put. to Charles Gammon, as sayer in charge of tho United Unit-ed States assay office in the federal building by a 'dealer in second-hand jewelry. The man felt that ho tvrb not. being allowed enough for a batch of old watches, rings and other articles of personal per-sonal adornment of varving qualities of gold. Mr. Gammon explained that payment was hpidfr niaHi. fni- th n-,-u..t ... ... I I of gold that the articles contained, but the man asserted that he had figured I the articles carefully and was sure that the assayer must bo wrong. This is not imcommnn in the case of persona who sell old jewelry to Uncle Sam. says Mr. Gammon, and he has become accustomed accus-tomed to making patient explanations. To impress Hie man in this case Willi I lie accuracy observed in figuring gold values in the assay office, Mr. Gammon told of a recent instance in which forty hiii nil bars of gold bought nt the assay office had been melted into one large bar worth $10,000. The bar was tested. The mint test showed one cent .more in value than the test of the local I ussay office, ami report was made to Mr. Gammon that (he Salt Lake office had been credited with one cenl more than it. had called for on fhe gold bar. Feeling that he must, have impressed the man with a sense of the accuracy adhered to in the local assay office, Mr. Gammon stopped to draw breath, immediately im-mediately the man with tho old jewelry for sale cut in with the question, "What did you do with the cent?-' .lohii May, metier in the nssnv office, revived Gammon by telling; nlra thai Riilt Lahe hud wen the day's brill game