to
gold from other sources. But for the same period the receipts of
jewellers' bars, etc., at the Philadelphia mint exceeded all the fine
bars made by that institution by some $1,351,143, or $193,020 per
annum; and the operations of these two establishments are so
intimately connected that they should be considered together.
Deducting this excess leaves only $1,500,000 per annum to be charged
against the current annual produce. The business has greatly increased
within the past few years, but I am satisfied that the average of these
seven years is considerably above that of the whole period under
consideration. In this city, where the gold thus employed is obtained
entirely from the private refinery, it has not, until within a year or
two past, exceeded $25,000 per annum. But it has now increased to from
$120,000 to $150,000.
I
should explain, perhaps, that in the statement of gold parted from
silver at the mints I have added to the amount as shown by the
director's summary statement the amount credited at the Carson mint to
" Nevada," as nearly the whole amount so credited evidently came from
Comstock bullion.
By
deducting from the aggregate deposits, as stated in this summary, the
deposits prior to 1848 ($12,808,771) and the unparted bars made at the
other assay offices and not redeposited at New York or Philadelphia, we
have as the whole amount of domestic gold deposited at the mints and
New York Assay Office since 1848, $1,179,824781.
