Download or read book Report of the Director of the Mint Upon the Production of Precious Metals in the United States During the Calendar Year 1885 (Classic Reprint) written by United States Mint and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report of the Director of the Mint Upon the Production of Precious Metals in the United States During the Calendar Year 1885 Sir: I have the honor to present herewith my first Report as Director of the Mint on the Production of the Precious Metals in the United States for the calendar year 1885, being the sixth of a series of reports which have been prepared by this Bureau under annual appropriations and printed under the same title by order of Congress. The series is practically a continuation in part, after a hiatus of four years, of a series beginning with the report for 1867 by J. Ross Browne, as special commissioner, under a provision of the appropriation act of July 28, 1866, authorizing an expenditure of for the collection by the Secretary of the Treasury of reliable statistics and information concerning the gold and silver mines of the Western States and Terri tories, which shall include the labor and capital employed, the product and the modes of working the same, and which information shall be re ported to Congress. (stats. At Large, XIV. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.