OCR Text |
Show She Had It Buried. In illustration of the extent to which gold and silver are being hoarded in China, the far eastern division of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce com-merce gives currency to an incident reported of an old woman paying for her purchase of a cotton mill with $500,000 worth of gold bars, which she had dug out of Its hiding place. It is estimated that, due to the disturbed political conditions and lack of adequate ade-quate banking facilities throughout China, at least a billion dollars' worth of silver Is similarly hoarded, which may partially account for the present exchange situation. ! |