Show silver bill helps utah washington the treasury would be directed under a bill passed by the senate to complete the purchase ot of stores of domestic silver covered in the pittman act senator pittman democrat nevada author of the bill estimated that ounces of silver must be bought at 1 1 an ounce to comply with the wartime legislation salt lake mining men estimated that utah as the foremost silver state has approximately ounces of silver the price of which would be held at 11 1 under provisions of the bill mentioned in the above dispatch |