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Show ONLY SILVER IS iieini; I1EII Director of U. S. Mints Says This Year's Output Will be Record Breaker. No Gold Is Being Coined at Present, But All the Mints Are Coining the White Metal Total Coinage for the Year Will Reach Sum of $200,000,000. Salt Lake City. "Every mint In tho United States with tho exception of a portion of tho Philadelphia mint, Is coining silver hair dollars, quarters and dimes at present nnd this will continue for at least threo months more," said Georgo H. Roberts, director direc-tor of United Slates mints, In nu interview in-terview here. "There Is an unprecedented demand for silver money of thoso denominations denomina-tions throughout tho country at present pres-ent that the government cannot begin to copo with. "Silver Is high and Is going to go higher," declared Mr. Hoberts. "It will reach SO before It stops and I bo-llovo bo-llovo thnt within two years It will go to 7G. It Is 71 and n llttlo more at present. A part of tho mint at Philadelphia Phila-delphia Is working with copper and nickel nt present, but outside this every mint In the country Is working night and day on silver half dollars, quarters nnd dimes. No gold is being coined nt present nnd none will bo for threo months. Tho total colnngo for tho year will vim very high, possibly over f200,000,000." Asked why paper money of $1 and $2 bill denominations nro not inoro generally circulated in the west, Mr. Roberts said: "Tho principal reason Is that western west-ern bankers and others sending east for money, If they ask for paper money, must pay the express charges on It. If they order silver the govern' nicnt pays the charges. This Is tho secret or the Immense circulation of silver In your own stnto nnd other westorn stntes." |