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Show CARSON GITY MINT MAY BEJEDPEHED Delegations Will Urge Congress Con-gress to Renew Coinage in Nevada Town. Mining men of Utah. Montana and Nevada Ne-vada are- keenly Interested in the movement move-ment now on foot by Nevada citizens to take advantage of the appointment of Raymond T. Baker of that state as director di-rector of the United States mint, to have the Carson City mini, now closed, reopened re-opened for coinage. The servires of Utah and Montana congressmen con-gressmen are to be enlisted in this movement. move-ment. Senator Francis G. Newlands, Senator Sen-ator Key Phtnian and Congressman F. I'j Roberts of Nevada are already working on the plan as a result of telegrams sent from C'aison City, Reno and other Nevada cities. The resolutions sent to the Nevada ten-representatives ten-representatives in congress set forth the repmat ion of Ne ada as a mining state, noted for its precious metl production to the aggregate of millions of dollars annually. an-nually. 1 1 also points out- that at present pres-ent the precious meta Is pioduced in Nevada Ne-vada have to he transported long, instances ins-tances and at great expense before reaching reach-ing the coining mints. It is pointed out that at tha conclusion of the European war. owing to disturbed financial rondjtions of the world, there will be an Imperative demand for increased coinage, of gold and silver money. There is in Carson City a Hock owned by Ihe government upon which there is a. building constructed for the purpose of a. Untied States mint, and whi'Mi with slight improvements and additional machinery and equipment "a n aga in he operated as a mint. The congressional dolcga tion is asked to have congress provide the, modern mod-ern machinery and the necessary appliances ap-pliances for coinage and to open the mint for work as soon as possible. |