Gold Dust

What is done with the great quantlties of gold dust which comes out of the Klondike. The miner when he comes back with his dust can change it to money at the banks, and they in sell it to the United States government to make it into money. The gold is sent to the assay office at Helena, the place where the government tests the gold to find lts true value, and pays for it by a government cheque. After the government has' bought the dust or nuggets of gold, the gold is melted in a crucible in a flre until it ia liquid. Then it is poured into a mold and hardened. At this point it is called a bar. After this it is subjected to treatment that will separate the pure gold from every impurity, and then by hydraulic pressure it is made into a cake worth aibout $80,000. These cakes are melted again to be mixed with another metal to make the whole hard enough for coining. Again it is pressed to the thickness of a coin, and cut into the sizea to make the varying denominations of gold coin issued by the governnrettc.