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Show OUTPUT OF THE HAND GOLD MINES Thp Rand mines are making the large.-t output on record, and their addition to the world s stock of gold is welcomed Fiv years ago many economists and financiers were worrying wor-rying about the flood of gold and w'ere prophes ing lower rates of in terest on bonds Now it seems that the world does not possess gold enough en-ough and new bonds are notoriously j fetching greatly enhanced rates II will be recollected, perhaps, that we argued five years ago that the increasing in-creasing gold production was no cause for alarm and that probably the wprld'8 stock of this metal had not increased in the same ratio as the increase in commerce and Industry The recent absorption of large quantities quan-tities of gold bv India has, no doubt, been a lactor in the situation. Engineering En-gineering and Mining Journal. oo "Society ladles are taking up the suffragette cause." "I alv.avs looked for it Now up'H see the high handshake in politics ' Kansas City Journal |