The next department is the melt-inge and refining department, where the $1,000 central mint bars are turned' out. "Since the old form of Jeurrency in China, the silver Sycee shoe, has now. been recalled, the bans have all sent_ in thelt now delete tender to the mint to have it substituted by the" new" mint bers of which there are two forms. The one is the 880 fine mint par made from the melted Sycee shoe silver and the other is known as ye. 99" fine" mint "bar, "which
silver.
manufactured" from imported Tu the first ivom of this department silver and copper are weighed which' will "eventually be "turned ver to the furnaces for melting. In the' same room $1,000 mint bars fare also. weighed: "All the Sycee shoes are also carefully weighed before going to the melting room.
'The bullion vault. is in the same Hlepartment und presents. a wealthy scene with eases -of silver sycee shoe ready' tobe turned in to the egal tender of the country, Stacks lof copper sheets are also kept the Kane room.
"Dipping Cup"
'The most interesting. room, however, for the visitor is the' next visited which is a long room containing a line of low furnaces in the centre. On the one side the silver sycee shoes are put. into ferucible and the pot is then carefully. placed in the furnace. requires a heat of 2,200 degrees Fahrenheit before the melting point is reached and when this is accom-pushd workmen withdraw the now liquid silver from the crucible with triangular-shared cup, known, as the "dining cup." The molten silver is now carefully poured from rolling machines have a speed of TiS fect of strips per minute and] a capacity of 400000 ounces per lay.
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