The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-10-15
sEwILDEaINo FIGURES

Prsassted In the Annual Report of the
Bsreau Of Engraving and PriutisR-An
ImPortsat Adjunct to the frsasury DS.
Panment OF q Great Nation Like Oars.
WASHINGTON, Oct f0.-william Mere
dith. chief of the bureau of engraving
and printing, treasury department. in
his annual report of the operations Of
the bureau for the year ended June 80,
1892, to the secretary of the treasury.
states that there were completed and
delivered during the year 1s.7ss, 4s4
sheets of United States notes, treasury
notes, gold certificates, silver certifi-
Gates, bonds and national bank
notes, having the enormous
face value of s509, go, 500; $50. 46s, ie6
sheets of internal revenue stamps, con-
tanning 1,o42, 500, 244. stamps and hsv-
ing value of over 1854, ,o00, 900; 29s, a65
sheets Of customs stamps containing p
o5s, $50 stamps, and a,o15, ,1ss sheets Of
drafts, checks, certificates, ETC., to-
gether with miscellaneous work for the
various departmentsof of the government
costing sS3,s79. The number of Sc
curities, stamps, ETC., delivered during
the fiscal year 1891 was the largest
during period of fourteen years prior
thereto. The number delivered during
the year 1892, however, exceeded THAT
snumber by 6,1S5, ,057 sheets, or slightly
more than Is per cent, while the
expenditures for 1879 exceeded those OF
1891 only per cent This large
amount of work, representing in the
aggregate a value of over sS63, ,000, 900,
was handled throughout the various
processes necessary to its completion
without the loss to the government Of
a single dollar, and this result has been
obtained by conducting the establish.
ment upon a strictly business basi.
and by thoroughly systemati.
zing all its operations. The
method of printing by relief plates, the
internal revenue stamps known as
strip tobacco stamps has been perfected
and continued. and ont of 1920, ,O0e
pieces of this class of stamps delivered
during the year, 9.aOs, 500 were printed
by the relief process at saving OF
s1S1 GAS. 1t is expected that all of the
stamps of this class will be printed by
this process during the year 1893 at
probable saving of s164,O00.
During the year n process has been
added in the preparation of notes and
certificates known as ''resiZing." This
process consists of passing the notes,
after they have been printed and thor
oughly dried, through bath of ''size"
such as is used by paper makers in
finishing paper. which restores the siz-
ing and finish destroyed by repeatedly
wetting the paper for the several plate
printings required. The work of re.
sizing has been in successful operation
for several months, and all the notes
and certificates of series 1891 have
been so treated. II makes q decided
improvement, both in their appearance
and wearing quality,
The estimated amount of work to be
executed during the fiscal year 1894 is
5i.s04.645 sheets. an increase of a.496,.
e01 sheets, rs compared with 1892, OF
nearly per cent.
The bureau is now fully equipped
with all the necessary machinery and
has force of trained employees sufii-
GENTLY large to execute within the
regular working hours all the securi.
ties, stamps, etc, that it may be called
upon to furnish. All promotions in the
bureau have been made in accordance
with civil service rules. which. the re-
port states. has proved beneficial in pro
noting good discipline.
The bureau expended during the year
81. .41h,5 ,5s6, leaving an unexpended bal.
anee of the appropriation of esss
There was added to the plant of the
bureau during the year new machinery
to the value of s17,912
The new wing of the bureau build.
ing authorized by act of congress Of
August 20, 1890. was completed during
the fiscal year. and the entire amount
OF the appropriation authorized by the
act March 3. 1891, for machinery. fur.
niture and expenses of occupying the
wing, amounting to 10000, was ex.
pended.
Outbuildings for ink mills. laundry,
etc. are recommended and attention is
called to the wooden structures now in
use for these purposes which are pro
alike dangerous TO the bureau
building itself and to the neighbor
hood in case of fire.