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Increase in Prices has been 75 to 100 percent in a few Years There are said to be four thousand Coin Collectors in the United States who are constanstly buying, even going to Europe for rare specimens. "Premiums on old coins have advanced fro 75 to 100 perent during the last frew years," said an old coin dealer to a reporter for a Washington ...

Peter Donohue, an Irish immigrant, founded Union Brass & Iron Works in the south of Market area of San Francisco in 1849. It was later run by his son, James Donohue. After years as the premiere producer of mining, railroad, agricultural and locomotive[2] machinery in California, Union Iron Works, led by I. M. Scott, entered the ship building ...