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Show I WARTIME MELTING POT GETS RELICS ' . I 1 The New York assay office is humming ,; with activity these days. Melting of sil-1 sil-1 vp.r is under way on a large scale. Since the government fixed the price at 51 per ounce, and inaugurated a metal exchange where articles of silver may be exchanged for war savings stamps, silver curios, relics rel-ics and antiques that have not seen the light of day for years are finding their way into the asay office for melting. The melal Is being received from even- section of the country by tho truckload. ! Kor tho past month silver dollars have been melted into bars for shipment to the Orient. Shipments are averaging in the , neighborhood of $2,000.1100 weekly. The j Wad Street Journal Straws. |