The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-12-05
The MAKING oF MONEY.
One or the Easy ways OF Doing rt-Th.
Printing OF Notes.


The pressman ruhs the plate first
with roller saturated with ink. Then
he rubs OIL all the superiious ink with
n rag. and finally he polishes the plate
with his bare and inky hand. When
1t has been thus made ready he places
the plate under roller. laws Il sheet of
fresh paper upon II. gives 4 twist TO a
big iron wheel that communicates the
hand power, aud plate aud paper pass
under the roller the sheet coming out
with the faces Of four perfect notes
printed on 1t. Four notes are en-
graved on each plate, you see. As fast
as the sheets are printed they are laid
neatly in a pile by the Young woman
assistant who puts a sheet of brown
paper between each two sheets to keep
them from rubbing. This same per-
formance Is going on mt more than 200
hand presses in the big room.
Revenue and custom stamps for
cigars. liquors aud all such things are
printed by some of the presses on
blush green paper; but IN money,
notes and certificates alone an average
of one and half million of dollars Is
printed in this room daily All of
Uncle Sans paper cash is manufae-
tnred there. The printers have to be
such skilled men that they are paid
from So to SIS day by the piece system.
After being printed on one side the
sheets are printed in like manner on
the other though not by the same men.
For safety sake no one person Is al
lowed TO make note entirely. and by
this and other checks stealing is rem
dered impossible.
The sheets thus completed are taken
20 an office oil the big room. counted
and but into wooden boxes on little
trucks. Then the boxes are wheeled
upon an elevator and conveyed bv il to
the examining room below. In the
examing room they are taken and
counted by women. If their account
tallies with the count above stairs the
sheets are laid across racks arranged
IN such manner. stack shape. that
dozens of layers of them can be placed
one of top of the other. The rack
stacks are piled upon trucks, which
are run by small railway across the
floor into an oven bigger than an ordi-
nary sized room. built Of iron and
heated by steam pipes. There the
sheets are left until they are dry; when
they are taken out and again exam
lned. all defective ones being thrown
aside and charged up TO the boss of the
printing department. He is allowed
a percentage of per cent of spoilage,
but If he exceeds that he must paw for |
the labor lost. Next, the sheets are
placed between oiled pastebords and /
put on an hydraulic press. which sub !
lects them TO pressure of $500 /
pounds TO the square inch. This makes 1
them smooth. After this they 90 TO /
another room, where the sheets are |
clipped and the notes numbered by |
Finally they are counted |
again and deposited in the great vault. /
which has sometimes had in il as mueb /
rs 81. 100000.
Only the other day the vault keerer
sent over To tue Treasury little pack
ige that YOU could have put comfort
ably into hand bag aud carried away /
SIS. 00o. 900 in $4,000 GER
iheates for legal tender notes. In
making such a transportation Of wealth
he sheets of money are put into
wooden lock box aud showed aboard |
/ hinge chilied-steel safe on wheels.
which conveys the millions safely
through the streets. The upper part
i the big vault IS lined with cup- |
'oards, each one of which bears the
Iame of Il State. The cupboards are
eeeptacics for the national bank notes
i the various States. The notes and
certificates reach the Treasury in sheets
i four-or. three in the case of the
Iigger gold certiticates-and are there
nt apart and stamped with the Treas
ny seal. When the Treasury wants
money it simply makes reauisition
pon the vault keeper of the Bureau of
and Printing for whatever
needs Authorities in the depart-
lcnt say that the greatest difficulty
meet with in the imita-
on of United States moaev is found
1 the peculiar paper used by the Gov
which has silk fibers run
ing through il. You. can pull these
Tx iibers out of one Of Uncle Sans
otes without injuring it, but if YOU
olit counterfeit in two you will find /
ny silk iibers that may be in it sim
" laid between the two films of pa
er. and they win not pull out at all.
he making of this paper is Govern ,
tent secret and is conducted AT Dali
m. Mass, under the eye OF Treasury ,
Vperts. - Washington Star.