Show Mint Refuse Worth The United States government assayed as as- sayed the old mint at Denver recently recent recent- ly said R. R W. W Burchard of or that city and got in the clean up That sounds like a peculiar statement but bat it is the truth The new coinage mint which had been jeen In course of construction there ther for about seven years was completed recently and the government moved from rom the old mint which had been occupied occupied oc oc- for about thirty years When they got ready to clean out ut the old ld place every particle of Hof of d east ret and dirt was carefully saved This Thia was run through the assay furnace and it was found that the tiny particles particles par par- Ucles of gold which had accumulated about the building in all those years had amounted to the snug sum slim I have havo mentioned mc The particles had been carried through the air during the refining processes and were s so minute that they hey had not affected the weight df the he metal assayed to any appreciable extent It was all aU velvet for Uncle Sam and more than paid the expenses of moving to the new mint Milwaukee kee Sentinel a |