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Show IOGDEN MAN ON FEDERAL ASSAY J U. Eldredge, Jr. Named 3y Harding Member of Mint Commission i (Special Dispatch) V VKH1NUTON. D. C Jan. 28. resident Harding Ims appointed J y. JMredge, Jr.. o Ogden as a member of the annual assay commission which meets at the United States mint. I hlladelphin, on February 8. Sessions! of the commission Ml losl about three; iys. The appointment was made on j rocommendntion of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon. tm Xews of the appointment ot J. V. i.ldrrdge, Jr., gencial manager or the S'andard-Kxamlner. as a member of 9g annual assay commission of the m erffral government was received In - tffden yesterday afternoon. The com-mission com-mission Is appointed annually under 9m ederal statutes passed in 1873. the 'resident making the appointments. pm he commission is composed of the sH lire of the district court of the cat- 9m district of Pennsylvania, the 9H ptroller of the currency, the as- B oyer of the New. York assay ofrice - flk , ! others named by the president- If Ml I T AT PHI1 LDELPHIA. These appointees meet at the Phll-"lelphla Phll-"lelphla mint to examine and test, in mm In; presenco of the director of the mint, the fineness and weight of the tM oms reserved by the several mints H this purpose. If the test Bhows I i hat these coins measure to the fed- EgH l u statute limitations, the dial is t 9 i If bowevert there 1c a greatei wjml deviation than permitted by law, this R9 .net is certified to the president 1 Former mint oppicial. EjjB .Mr. Eldredge was the first Utah man! t-m lectod an official "i the Unlt- j i States mini having be n appoint- r n. 1 : ' the time that the federal assay i t3m office was established al Salt Lake. Eb He was named as the mint official In! I'Wt harg of t lie assay off!c by former HH President Roosevelt and later rc-ap- ri.m pointed to the sami position by ror-met- President Tuft Ho resigned the1 EB position in 1912 at the time he or-1 El anized the Ogden Examiner and took tl ip Hi management of that newspa- |