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Show 1 HOLDINGS OF SILVER I DECREASE STEADILY I Boston The treasury circulation state ment shows that during the month of 1 May thf stock of st.irnhiri silver dollars ' was reduced by ?2.040,0O0. being the ! smallest decrease in anv one month since ' the Pitt man silver act was passed in i April, 19 IS. Silver shipments to India ' uere stooped earlv in May, but the treasury treas-ury mav melt additional dollars to pro-; pro-; An silver bullion for subsidiary coinage. 1 The stock of standard silver dollars on ', April 1. 1518. before meltintrs be?an under the Pittman act. was 56S.269.513. and on I June 1. 1919, the strv-k was 30S.97S.fl30. .1 decrease of 259.rriO.5S3 in fourteen , months. In the same period the stock I of subsidiary silver .hns increased from 52r5.97l,7'?0 to S-13.ti7;t,7ii2. The mptallif monev stock of the T'nited States has undergone an important chance In the five-year period since the ombronk ! of the war. Our hrddine s of p-o'd have 1 increased by more than SI , 0o0.00",.0Oo. or i 5i per cent, while nm- hoMis of silver have dp'easd bv $200105017. or 2 ppr - cent. The chancres werp, broncrht about hv the heavy payments tn o'd for roods purchased hv the allies tie fore our en-1 en-1 ran ce i"o the war, and the reduction of onr silver holdings to provide Great Britain with s;lvr to nay for war supplies sup-plies purchased fVom India. The posit ion of the country's metn illc holdings at the outbreak of thp war. before be-fore tp" rn'-ltMir of silver do'lars beiran tinder the F'ittninn act. and at the pr"S-ent pr"S-ent time is summarized in the following tn'e: Oo'-l Time 1. V37,fW: April 1. 11. 3.0i2.70S,3JD: .Tulv 1. 1914, S71 nil. 72-?. piivor .TnnA 1. 1919. S"2.h"S (TJ2 ; n-il 1. 191. $70-1.2-11.233; July 1. 1914, $753,-i $753,-i 53 Tpfl. Total mntnllfc Jun 1. 1919. SS.d-UWi.-391: Anr'l l. 101, $3. S3 S, 949, 55 2 ; Juiy 1, 1914. S? .r,1. 175.432. In 1914 puld formed 72 per cent of the total metallic stock; on April 1, 191S, 79 per cent, and on June 1, 1110, 8, per cent. The world hns a population of approximately approxi-mately Lo''i.'-'OO'On and the gold used by r he world as money Is roundly $10,000,-Ofiin(iO. $10,000,-Ofiin(iO. a I"'1' capita holding of ilttle more than 0. In the t'nited Slates alone gold holdings per capita are $23. Boston Neus bureau. |