Show allt manufacture own uncle sam bain will make his own pen pan ales lu in future the treasury has bas taken over the business from private concerns which for many years manufactured those these swall small coins for tho the government and intends for all vale time to conie come to turn them out with its own machinery the treasury has always stamped its own pennies vi with ith tho the design of the Iud indians lans head and tile the wreath on oil the reverse enclosing tho the words onu cent but tho the coins lacking only thin diang touch have been ellade lundu for many years in waterbury bury conti conn whence they were shipped in tho the shapo shape of manks blanks otherwise known as in strong wooden boxes they used to cost the government in this forni form only twenty four cents a pound whereas today to day owing to the rise in in the price of copper they cannot le be manufactured even N when 1 for less than twenty nine cent A pound of blanks represent pennies if a cent a pound ll 11 be added for th the a expense of stamping them with dies it will bo be obvious that uncle sam bain I 1 I 1 Is 8 able to manufacture pennies for a dollar a very profitable enterprise inasmuch its as lie disposes of that number for during the last year the treasury minted pe pennies miles of which h new york state absorbed ab about out the demand from illinois being next nest in III point of size while massachusetts chu was third and pennsylvania fourth to ninke make this number of cents required pounds of copper pounds of tin till and pounds of zinc the two latter metals entering into the composition of these colus coins to the extent of three per cent and aud 0 two re |