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Show Johnson Advocates Assay As-say Office for Utah Judge Jacob Johnson, Junior Congressman from the state of Utah, strongly advocates the maintenance of an assay office at Salt Lake City. In a speech before Congress, Saturday, October Oc-tober 11, 1913, relative to an amendment pertaining to the office, Johnson said in part: "The assay office at Salt Lake is a very important one. It has to deal with the bullion not only' of the state of Utah, but from adjoining states-for states-for instance, the eastern part of Nevada Ne-vada and partially from other states and it is the central market for the deposits of the bullion. I am inform ed that this appropriation is absolute ly necessary if these assay offices shall be continued in operation. If there shall De a continued market in a central location for the product of the miner, then there must be an assay office there in order to deter mine the value of the various kinds of bullion produced. "It is a trreat industry not onlv in our state and of the states involved, but also of the Nation. I have be fore me the figures of the metals of the State of Utah for the year 1912, and I find that it amounts to $44,-414,000, $44,-414,000, of which $4,300,000 is in gold bullion and $7,995,000 is in slver bul lion, all of which require a ready market. |