overlooked the furnaces where the ingots are made - melted rather - and bricks of shining silver are formed - today about the width of a silver dollar. This is the room with the removable floor - where they save all the scraps - These are run thro' machine after machine, which presses them into longer and longer strips till their only as thick as a dollar (or whatever coin they are making) Then the round dollars are stamped out and the weight of each one tested - Every one too light is re-melted, but the thick ones are usually filed down. The last room was the one where the girls were feeding these discs (dollars, halves, quarters, tens, nickels & pennies today) into machines which stamp them both sides and mill them in one stroke and then their put in nice little canvas bags to send away to banks &c. He explained the elaborate system of keeping track of everything & we saw them weighing big "dish-pans" full of silver on scales so adjusted that they weigh anything from a fraction of an ounce to a ton.
overlooked the furnaces where the ingots are made - melted rather - and bricks of shining silver are formed - today about the width of a silver dollar. This is the room with the removable floor - where they save all the scraps - These are run thro' machine after machine, which presses them into longer and longer strips till their only as thick as a dollar (or whatever coin they are making) Then the round dollars are stamped out and the weight of each one tested - Every one too light is re-melted, but the thick ones are usually filed down. The last room was the one where the girls were feeding these discs (dollars, halves, quarters, tens, nickels & pennies today) into machines which stamp them both sides and mill them in one stroke and then their put in nice little canvas bags to send away to banks &c. He explained the elaborate system of keeping track of everything & we saw them weighing big "dish-pans" full of silver on scales so adjusted that they weigh anything from a fraction of an ounce to a ton.
overlooked the furnaces where the ingots are made - melted rather - and bricks of shining silver are formed - today about the width of a silver dollar. This is the room with the removable floor - where they save all the scraps - These are run thro' machine after machine, which presses them into longer and longer strips till their only as thick as a dollar (or whatever coin they are making) Then the round dollars are stamped out and the weight of each one tested - Every one too light is re-melted, but the thick ones are usually filed down. The last room was the one where the girls were feeding these discs (dollars, halves, quarters, tens, nickels & pennies today) into machines which stamp them both sides and mill them in one stroke and then their put in nice little canvas bags to send away to banks &c. He explained the elaborate system of keeping track of everything & we saw them weighing big "dish-pans" full of silver on scales so adjusted that they weigh anything from a fraction of an ounce to a ton.
