The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-07-09
NEW PAPER MONEY,
Uncle Sam Has Been Making Some
Changes.
An Issue of Handsome Treasury Notes
Soon to Be Made = Designs In
tended to Render Counter
feiting Impossible.

make the reverse of every note and sill
yer certificate issued by the government
sky blue. In fact copies of the design,
were printed in thatcolo and submitted
to show what they would look like
Unfortunately for the plan the tint sug
gested confederate shinplasters to some
body and that settled it.
Accordingly. says a Washington let
ter, the color will not be altered, but
the design on the back of every one O.
Uncle Sans bills is to be promptly
changed-excepting only the two-dolla1
silver certificate. Treasury notes as
well as silver certificates are all to
assume a novel aspect on the reverse
side. The patterns are completed and
have been officially approved. In a few
months the fresh money will be in the
pockets of the people.
These changes are made chiefly in
order that the new designs may show
plainly the bands of red and blue fibers
which run through the new distinctive
paper. This paper is made so that the
hbers only show on the back of each
bill, being contained in the outer layer
of its substance on one side as the
sheets come from the mill. Unluckily,
all the old-style notes and certificates
are 20 covered with engraving behind
that there is no chance for exhibiting
the popularity which congress has de
clared shall be made a conspicuous fig
ure. Accordingly, it was found neces-
sary to make an entirely fresh set of
plates, which have occupied the ardu-
ous attention of the bureau of printing
and engraving for some months past.
Incidentally it was sought to make
the new patterns more highly orna-
mental than any which have hitherto
adorned paper money. Not only are
they of u%nequaled beauty, but the Sc
cret service declares that they will
make counterfeiting a more difficult art
than it has ever been up to the present
time. No two of them are at all alike.
Furthermore, no portion of a design is
repeated on the same bill, as used to be
the case when the skillful imitator
could copy n small bit and by simply
multiplying it with a transfer press or
small battery reproduce a large part of
a note. 1t was easy for the criminal
engraver a few years ago to make a lit
tie section of border, reading: ~. S.
Treasury, $780, and reduplicate it by
mechanical process at sufficient length
to extend from the white house to the
capitol.
Instead of covering the backs of the
new notes and certificates with a maze
of engraving too elaborate for the eye
to follow Chief Engraver CASTELAR, has
made the design as open as possible, the
white background of the paper showing
the patterns in such conspicuous relief
as to render any error of the counter
feiter readily detected. No such ex-
and complicated geometrical
lathe work as appears On these bills
was ever seen before. 1t is the one
thing which the forger cannot success
fully initiate. To produce a single
button" of it, meaning a bit of tracery,
circular, oval, or otherwise shaped, COM
1lete in itself-sometimes requires two
'r three days of preliminary figuring
merely to compose the mathematical
Even with this formula at
land the criminal engraver could not
'et the machine so as to copy the pic
-ure.
An admirable example of this sort of
work. will be found in the new ten-dol-
ar certificate when it is issued. In the
of the back is a beautiful piece
# lathe engraving, which looks like
me of the d~issolving kaleidoscope pat
erns thrown by a magic lantern upon
white sheet. But. the most exquisite
f all the designs is the treasury note
or one thousand dollars, which has a
Wheel that is q marvel of decorative in
The fifty-dollar note is sufii-
iently snaky in the manner of its
to excite a. tremor in the
oper who would change it for a drink. ]
In collaboration with the lathe work
r, the engraver of letters and the orna- ,
rental engraver have expended their /
est skill upon these new bills. Each I
a separate branch of the profession, i
,hich has been so highly specialized {
nat a man who can do more than one '
f them well is rare. The making of q
nall, square and perfectly plain letters
one of the most difficult accomplish a
tents. In the designs for the treasury
otes flowers are made to play an inn
part, lunches of tiger lilies and I
blossoms being SO combined with t
lie scroll work in the corners as to af- t
'rd a well-nigh hopeless task to any o
ne who may try to copy them. An L
her novel feature which appears in V
yery one of the patterns is to be re- s
.arked in the conspicuous white figures a
presenting the denomination in each S
,rner, so that the money can be
united oven with the utmost readiness.
bank clerks this will be a blessing.
of the corners of the pictures are e
.uare, while others are round, and in y
-ery way it has been tried to make as I
UGH variety among them as possible, c
d, one resembling another. Further a
ore, things have been 50 managed Il
at the smallest part of any note or c;
rtifcate will identify it Enthusiastically. ii
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