Show Ft federal oderal assay office employs no salesmen our governments head gold buyer Is the federal assay onice on the lower end of ilan manhattan I 1 bittan island new york it takes II 11 the crude wealth 0 kold gold mines and the gold cold that other lands send bend us its assays essays refines it and pays the sender its value in dollars also hy by check drawn on the federal tre treasury asir I 1 y till alila loftice does docs a cash and carry trade an and d seeks no customers those alio 0 would buy or sell gold must come cc in e to it pars bars nuggets dust and at amalgam ar gaill old jewelry or coins front from broad abroad 11 fand and a market nt at nil all federal assay e s a and nd mints some som odd dd and interesting treasures haac have ic been ell packed up tip and tossed into our melting pots said the superintendent I 1 in Il of the now new york office arop I ironi a complete dinner set of gold I 1 including nel tiding every list use used tit at a formal dinner we got worth of got gold hut nil all Is not gold lint glitters glitter even ev ell here to our testing laboratory came one day two tro bright yellow bricks for which a harlem doctor paid when our assay showed they con contained tallied not one ounce of gold the doctor collapsed 11 frederick in the national geographic magazine |