. Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time: being a complete survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture; including the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, wheat; the raising of horses, neat-cattle, etc.; all the important manufactures, shipping and fisheries, railroads, mines and mining, and oil; also a history of the coal-miners and the Molly Maguires; banks, insurance, and commerce; trade-unions, strikes, and eight-hour movement; together with a description of Canadian industries . ive tons. The blanks are put into a tu
. Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time: being a complete survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture; including the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, wheat; the raising of horses, neat-cattle, etc.; all the important manufactures, shipping and fisheries, railroads, mines and mining, and oil; also a history of the coal-miners and the Molly Maguires; banks, insurance, and commerce; trade-unions, strikes, and eight-hour movement; together with a description of Canadian industries . ive tons. The blanks are put into a tube,and slip down one by one upon the bed of the press. They rest upon a diecontaining the device of one side of the coin, while a die containing the othercomes down upon them. The impression of both sides, and the fluting of theedge to save it from filing, are given all at fingers pick up the stamped coin, and re-move it. The ordinary speed of coinage is fromsixty to eighty per minute. A pair of dies lastsabout two weeks. The operations of the mint are not confinedentirely to the coining of Americanmoney. A great many commemo-rative and other medals ordered byCongress are struck from time totime, and there has been some workfor foreign governments performed. At Phila-delphia 12,000,000 nickel pieces were struck in 1876 for Venezuela. Theestablishment at Philadelphia is the principal one in the country, and has acapacity of about 25,000 pieces an hour. The branch at New Orleans has Operationsof mint notsolely con-fined to coin-ing FIRST UNITED-STATES DOLLAR. 324 INDUSTRIAL HISTORY been idle for several years, owing to the war and the falling-off in coinageduring the era of paper money. It was usefully employed in previous timesin converting the Mexican dollars to our own coinage. The Pacific-coastmints have run principally upon trade dollars for export to China, Japan,and India, that coin having been authorized in February, 1873, simply forexport purposes. The
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