Show BUSY MELTING GOLD so great has been the tide of gold poured into new york to pay the war bills of the belligerent nations that the task of melting elting rn it up to be turned into united states coin has almost overwhelmed the employees of the united states assay office here they are working longer than they ever did before but the piles of coin in bullion deposited by bankers grows instead of diminishing ordinarily about in gold passes through the assay office in a year since july first the office has received and melt ed cd chiore than worth and nearly of this i i was received within the last 10 days nearly a years work has been done in less than four i months I 1 the gold arrives generally in the form of bullion english sovereigns ere igns french napoleons and japanese yen t |