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Show ONLY SILVER IS fill UIIO Director of U. S. Mints Says This Year's Output Will be Record Breaker. No Gold Is Delng Coined at Present, But All the Mints Are Coining the White Metal Total Coinage for the Year Will Reach I 8um of $200,000,000. ' Salt Lako City. "Every mint In tho yp'Jed States with tho exception ot a Httlon of tho Philadelphia mint, l coining stiver halt dollars, quarters and dimes at present and this will contlnuo tor at least thrco months jmorc," said Georgo E. TtobertB, director direc-tor of United States mints, In an Interview In-terview hero. "There Is an unpiccedentcd demand for silver mtney of those denominations denomina-tions throughout tho country nt present pres-ent that tho government cannot begin to copo with. "Silver Is high and Is going to go Jilgher," declared Mr. Ilobcrts. "It rill reach 80 boforo It stops and I be- fvcthnt within two years It will go jfToTV1' 's 71 nn1 a "lll woro nt Resent. A pnrt ot tho mint nt I'hlla- Knttv l w-orklng with copper nnd aicUcA ' present, but outsldo this BjL.--nlnt In tho country in working nlgm nnd day on silver hnlf dollars, -quarters and dimes. No gold Is being coined at present nnd none will bo for thrco months. Tho total colnago for tho yonr will run very high, possibly over 1200,000,000." Asked why paper monoy of 11 and 12 bill denominations nro not moro jtcncrnlly circulated In tho west, Mr. Ilobcrts said: . "Tho principal reason Is thnt western west-ern bankers nnd others sending oas for money, If they ask for paper money, must pay tho express chnrges on IL If they order silver tho government govern-ment pays tho charges. This Is tho secret of tho Immense circulation of silver In your own Btatc nnd other western states." |