Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-11-06
CONFEDERATE BONDS.

for Them.
A recent article in the Philadelphia
Record, relative to the sudden appreci-
alton of Confederate bonds in the Euro
pean market, contains the following
ara@raph:
Recently one Of the agents author
lied to purchase Confederate bonds, re-
ceived a package from Salt Lake City
| containing one half a million of Con-
| federate money. He stated to 4 re-
porter that they came from an eX-Con-
federate army officer in Salt Lake, and
that he expected more from the same
quarter shortly"
For some days past there has been a
rumor about the streets that there was
a man in this city manufacturing the
bonds. Yesterday a Tribune reporter
was told where he would find man
who for months past had been engaged
in running sort of Confederate bond
factory. His place was found on East
Temple street, and when the reporter
called and asked him about the bonds
he denied knowing anything about
them. Later in the day the reporter
called with his informant and the latter
told the bond man to talk freely.
The bond man, whose name was Felix
P:iytsn, gave the following account of
the transaction
About year ago, man called upon
me with the plates of some Confederate
bonds and told me they had been cap
tured with some Rebel stores after Lees
surrender. He said that he had kept
them ever since as souvenirs Of the war,
and that now there was large demand
all over the country fer the money to
sell to curiosity seekers, he said he
would like me to print new notes from
the plates and send them to him in
Chicago. He agreed to pay me five
dollars for every thousand impressions,
irrespective of the denomination Of the
notes. printed a good many thousand
of the bills, of various denominations,
from ten dollars to one hundred. l
never printed any one thousand dollar |
notes, and l never heard of any such |
Confederate bonds. When heard that |
the bonds were selling in Europe and |
the East for two dollars thousand, 1 |
that some of the notes l was !
making were finding their way into the
market. an not making any more.
l have not made any for month.
The reporter examined the plates
which Payton claimed had been given
him as the genuine plates captured
after Lees surrender The plates were
made Of ordinary babbit-metal, type
high, and at one end bore the stamp:
" Marder, Luse & Co., San Francisco,
1880" The firm of Marder, Luse &
Co. are manufacturers OF type, printers
ETC., and the babbit-metal
from which these plates were made
must have reached Salt Lake pretty re-
Gently. While Payton claimed not to
have made any notes for month, the
ink on the plates was not dry, and a
pile of fresh notes lay behind a pile of
books on the table, still damp with fresh
ink. There was second package
about six inches square on the table,
'eady for the express office, marked
John S. Middleton, 1876 Greenwald
street, Philadelphia.
1t is quite evident that the man is
in the manufacture of Confed-
,rate notes, and is unloading on the
European market. AS the original bonds
re not recognized, there can be no
larrn in counterfeiting them, and there
$ no good reason why Payton should
lot enlarge his factory.-SaH Lake
Tribune.