The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-05-28
USED IN RECORDING PUBLIC
DOCUMENTS IN STATE DE-
PARTMENT AT WASH
INGTON.
In Use in Twenty Eight Counties
in Oregon-Seven Constantly
in nOperation in Multnomah
County.

T. T. Vincent, recorder, under
stood what he was about when he
petitioned the commissioners of
Benton County to purchase book
TYPE writing machine for use in
making records in the recorders
office, IN which petition he said,
TYPE writing machines have
bsen Invented for writing on books,
and the records made by the sans
are far superior to written records,
as evidenced by the work done by
said type writer in the clerks
office Information gathered on
the subject, proves conclusively that
Recorder Vincent was right. and
that he has behind him the order of
William R. Day, Secretary ofState
in Presidents McKinley's cabinet,
and subsequently member Of the
|celebrated Paris Commission. This
was an order installing book type
writers in the State Department at
Washington, for use 10 copying rec
ords to be laid away in the govern
ment archives. It has the effect of
placing before the people of Benton
county in its true light. the certain
"four columns" in the Corvallis Ga
|zette devoted to politics. which re-
entity undertook TO make the pub
lie believe that the records made by
such machines are not durable be-
cause the link would fade" Book
TYPE writer's are being used In the
court house for record work in %
counties in Oregon. In Multuo-
nah county, such machines of the
kind are constantly in use by the
: county clerk, aud all the deeds,
mortgages and matters of record are
recorded with book type writers.
Three hundred and eighty book
TYPE writer's are in use in the coun-
ties of Ohio, and it is confidently
asserted by those in posit iton to
know that IS per cent of the coun-
ties in every state in the Union are
using machines of the kind for all
I IeCoioAbS pun pocoe'
The question of permanency ol
type written records has been set.
tied beyond the peradventure of a
, doubt. The legislature of Massa'
: chusetts appointed commission ol
: expert chemists who reported to the
legislature in substantially the
same findings as the government
chemists, and on the strength o
; this report, law was passed legal
, zing records written with book type
writer's In Massachusetts,. Thi:
Twas necessary in that particular
: sta =. because of a law on the statute
a book, of ancient date, providing
Q for ,ecording with pen and INK.
8 j ok type writers have become
: such necessity in counties for recor
Q dim work that county commission
. ers have been purchasing the ma
chi ,-.s for the county officers, be.
:, liev'rg them to make a more per
. man Mt record, and saving full,
: one third in the number OF book
j. required, and consequently in tn
It vault storage space. Board o
J. county commissioners have purcha
: sed for their respective counties
y all the machines Installed in Wash
). Iington, Oregon Idaho and Montana
t. with the exception of two COUNT es
= In he case of the two counties ex
II tcepted. the officers purchased tn
9 machines at their own expense an
= }have provided them for tn
= free use of the county. One 6
= these officers is Victor Moses 9
II Benton county, and the other, th
9 county recorder of Jackson count ty
J. Millions of dollars have been in
n vested in the book type write
10 business and thousands of machine
a are in use. The colossal propol
. ton of this business aud use pre-
!, cludes any question of the perms
'f meucy of the product. Not only a,
they in use In the counties of th
various states. but are used in tt
: recording work of such cities 8
! = New York and Chicogo, and i
., the work Of the historical societie
# of the United States. They al