Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-01-01 | Page 35 | Old Gold Days Are Recalled

OLD GOLD DAYS I k ARE Passing of z l Buildings Brings Memories S SAN FRANCISCO Dec 31 One One of S the last strongholds of California's ia's gold 1 days will soon pass into memory with i S the razing of San Francisco's first sub- sub i treasury building S Originally constructed ted in in 1850 1880 by act of congress for use as a government government govern govern- govern I ment assay office during the gold rush rushS i S S days the building three years later S was remodeled into a mint and in 1867 was made into a S For seventy one one years years' years the the old tare tore was was identified with the growth of the West and still retains many reminiscences reminiscences reminiscences remi remi- of the Eldorado Since 1915 when the ne new was c cornS corn corn- m- m S the building has been occupied by a private concern S Thomas P. P Burns in his history of S the of which he was was' I cashier for t thirty years recalls many I 1 historic events which were enacted about the old building One of ol the most most notable of these was the shipment shipment shipment ship ship- I ment in August 1892 of in gold fold to the in New York This Is believed to be one of the largS largest larg larg- S est sums of money ever shipped at oneS one I S time It was carried on a special train of five cars manned by fifty armed guards In ln l Ia May 1915 cash was trans transferred erred from the old S to new without the loss of a single S penny S