Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-08-30 | Page 1 | Bullion Train Rushes Gold to Denver's Mint

Bullion Train Rushes Rushes' Gold t to t Denver's enver's D Mint Ii- Ii Soldiers Guard Largest Ship- Ship mont ent of Yellow Metal f in History IN I INGOTS N Q 0 T 5 I Is M Made de From San Francisco D Br y United SAN SAN AN FRANCISCO Aug 30 o- o ransom in gold of shining yellow ellow bars was eastward today In a special j. j Due in Ogden Friday The federal governments government's gold od special carrying 70 in bars of the glisten glisten- ins metal from the San Francisco mint to be impounded impound impound- ed In the mint at Denver will arrive In Frida Friday at a a. in tn trL it was revealed in Salt Lake City Thursday The special will vill arrive via the Southern Pacific and will depart over the Union Pacific 15 minutes later for Denver Another special train carryIng carry carry- Ing log millions in gold will ill leave San Francisco the morning of oC September 3 arriving in Ogden Og Og- den dm on the same schedule as the first train Similar cargoes cargoes car car- goes will be transported from Crom then Ithen on every three days until the he shining yellow ellow metal L is fel tucked away in the lD Denver mint ala ain bound for the U. U S. S mint at enver Guns of th the U U. S. S army guarded e swift passage s ge of the train bearing rh the largest Ingest gold movement modern history It was sent from frome e C San Francisco mint which soon to be razed The shipment Is the first of the veral which will be necessary to er gold valued at i Denver Treasury officials at f r- r 1 1 Continued on r pe e Two Tiro BULLION TRAIN TRAINS S ON WAY EAST in Gold Cold Is En Enl l t Route to Mint at j l' l Denver S Continued from Page Pace One W Washington said the transfer W was being be be- ing trig mado made b because of the fear of ot earthquakes earthquakes earth earth- quakes quake here Yet the building from which it is being beng moved survived the 1906 earthquake Superintendent Peter Haggerty insists the re son reason on is that the old gray structure at at at- Fifth and Mission streets is to be torn down and there will be n no no room for forthe forthe forthe the gold until the new st structure is isS S completed at another site Besides since the of ot silver an astonishing amount of ot that metal has been received here crowding storage space pace 30 Soldiers SoldIer on Guard GuardS The train carrying the fortune con S of three and two Pull Pull- mans Special postal guards guard and 30 soldiers from the U U. S. S army troops at t atthe the Presidio here comprised the guard rd Federal operatives reportedly reported ly patrolled the route The journey from San Francisco S to Denver normally requires 36 hours by the route the train is believed to have taken It w was reported to have left here shortly before midnight last night Federal authorities had planned to keep the movement from the to to the train a secret but the precautions they took in guarding it were as secretive secretive se see se- se as the U. U S. S Macons Macon's efforts to hide behind a factory chimney Loaded In Mall Mail Trucks The gold was loaded into mall mail trucks at a platform in the rear of the mint building g Soldiers stood guard their rifles ready Three hundred hundred hun hun- dred police were In the vicinity many G of Gf them carrying submachine guns The The gold In wrapped ped ingots was carried on teacart like contrivances One was placed in each truck When six trucks were loaded police cars car lorm formed d a convoy with officers s carryIng carryIng carry carry- Ing sawed off shotguns shotgun A lire fire department department de de- de truck with unusually brIght spotlights ran behind the procession Secret service operatives and police patrolled the ten block over ove which the convoys s 's passed The entire en en- tire lire movement to the train required d four lour hours The government took look responsibility for the safe rail raU pas passage of the gold There w was no Intimation tion as to when the next shIpment will be m made de