Arizona republican., 1891-10-18
MONEY TO ORDER.
Currency for Foreign Governments
 Printed in This Country.
Millions of Dollars Made by Our Printers and Engrnvcrs Which the People of the United states
 Never See.

When a recent temporary ruler In Hayti wished toissue some thousands or dollars in paper money he sent to New York and had the prettiest kinds or notes printed in handsome design on fine paper and admirably lettcred in choice Haytian French, says the New York Recorder. In due course that par ticular ruler Succumbed to rival, ana the latter promptly made new issue o1 paper money and had it printed by the same firm that did the like work for his predecessor. Neither llaytian ruler omitted to pay the market rate for his printing, and it is unlikely that either was permitted to pay in the curr'nei "i his own authorization. Haytlan money is just as pretty as that of any other government, and there is no reason to suppose that the currency ot the deposed ruler was less beautiful than that issued by his successor, Doubtless most of us will live to see new ruler in Hayti, and it is altogether likely that he in turn will appeal to the New York printer that did so handsomely hy his predecessor.
 This town prints every year great many millions of money that lt5 ln- habitantS never handle. There are Colombian pesos, and Haytian francs, the Brazilian milreis, and Peruvian sols, and nobody knows what not besides. The banlt-uOte printers of New York probably do most of the currency en- craving for the South American re- publics. Beauty of workmanship IS characteristic If such work in the United States. although the business in its most artistic development scarce- ly dates back beyond the war of the rebellion To be sure, the old state banks had their notes engraved with considerable care, but that was hcfor" the day of the gcometric lathe, with it's intricate scroll work almost dcfying the counterfcitCr.
 Most of our own governments print ing. whether of annual reports or notes and bonds, i5 don, ul the bureau of en- gravine and printing in Washington, altl,uuh the earlier issues of paper money were printed by private hands in this city.
 A government goes about having its money made much as it would % about having guns east or uniforms manufac- tured Perhaps bids are obtained for the work or perhaps not. The resident consul or a special agent furnishes the copy, decides upon designs, quality of paper and other details, has the 'prOofs' read just as he would if the matter printed was play or a sermon, and in due time pavs for the money and sees it safely shipped to its destination. Such notes are usually packed in tin boxes and sent by steamer When they leave here they are worth no more than the paper they are printed on and the price of printing. A blank is usually left to be filled in with the signatures of the proper government officials.
 The plates from which foreign money is engraved are trustfully left behind in the hands of the engraving companies, for the unsigned bills would be of little avail, and, besides, in this business it pays to be honest. Wholesale counter feiting of the necessary signatures would probably soon be detected, and single instance of the kind traced to an engraving house would mean ruin. The interest of the banll-nOte companies is all on the side of honesty in such mat ters. Nevertheless, the plates would be dangerous implements in the hands of skilled wOrkmen. and all plates are carefully slowed away in vaults to which very few persons Lave access.
 The immense engraving business of governments, railway companies and various corporations that issue Sccuri- ties has resulted in educating a large corps of skilled commercial cngravers. As the artist cngravcr has given way before the ctchcr and before the invcn- tion of various cheap processes of photo engraving, the commercial engraycr has come to the front. A few of the older artist cngravcrs have been driven into commercial engraving, but for the most part the worl; of security cngrav- ing is done by younger race of men. There are few apprentices in the trade. and the wages of skilled men are excel lent.
 The stock exchange lists no bonds that are not engraved. The cost of bond printing machinery is so great that cOunterfcijiug is hardly profitable and the stock exchange regards an en graved bond as a guarantee against fraud. The price of a well-engravet bond plate alone is about fifteen hun dred dollars, even when the plate is made and the bonds are printed in ar establishment doing million dollars worth of such work per year. It re quircs about three weeks to produce ar engraved plate and, when once the plate has been approved and the order has been given to go ahead and print the bonds about seven hundred bonds per day can be delivered. Railway companies leave their bond plates ir the hands of the engraving company and there must be great mGnJ pounds of such plates stored away in vaults