The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 49, November 16, 2003, Article 11

THE DENVER MINT'S GOLD

  The Rocky Mountain News also published a companion
  article about the gold stored at the Denver Mint facility.

  "Few people in Denver know that the Italianate mansion
  downtown is home to 18 percent of U.S. gold reserves.
  But U.S. Mint spokeswoman Becky Bailey says it's public
  information.

  Piled together, the pure gold bricks in the mint would fill
  three 10-foot-by-11-foot rooms to a height of 8 feet.

  Each bar weighs 27.5 pounds, according to the Treasury
  Department's Web site.  Altogether, the Denver gold weighs
  3 million pounds."

  "Not long ago, tourists lined up on Cherokee Street
  downtown for tours of the coin factory. But those tours
  ended after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

  Tours for schoolchildren still can be arranged, but adults
  hoping to see the mint must ask their congressman to
  arrange a visit."

  "The city of Denver plans to build a jail on the current site
  of the Rocky Mountain News building, just west of the mint.

  That would put hundreds of prisoners next door to $17 billion.

  [Treasury Department's inspector general Louis] King was
  startled to hear that Denver hopes to build a prisoner tunnel
  from the planned jail to the courthouse, which is just east of
  the mint. The tunnel would go past the mint's basement.

   "We'll have to keep an eye on that," he said."

  To read the full article, see:

http://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_2418888,00.html

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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