Washington County News | 1926-06-17 | Page 2 | Load Kegs of Gold like so Much Salt

LOAD KEGS OF GOLD LIKE SO MUCH SALT "Fifty thousand hundred thousand hundred and fifty " The red-faced Irishman In overalls Is counting as the heavy kegs roll onto the sidewalk, where two husky assistants, as-sistants, one at each side, hoist them onto the rear of the armored express ex-press truck. "There you are," he says, finally, when 40 kegs are aboard; "that's $2,000,000 enough for this trip. We'll have to come back later for the rest of this gold." Bock in the building from which the kegs have come the United States assay ofllce coopers employed by a bank are busy nailing up two or three more millions In gold with hardly hard-ly more concern than If It was so much salt. The business of physical shipment of precious metal, to keep the world financial balance straight, Is just everyday work to those ou the Job. The stout kegs in which the gold Is carried are of about ten-gallon size, and when filled with metal and packing pack-ing weigh about ISO pounds. In each, to facilitate counting. Is $n0,0O0. so that the 20 kogs hold $1,000,000. The Mentor.