Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-12
LOCAL COPYOCRAPH COMPANY
Organization Will Build Machines for
Reproducing Records.
NEW $4,000 CORPORATION
Prominent Business Men of Omaha
Are Behind Enterprise 60 Market
C~opyOEraph Machines for
Tributary Territory.

Errors In reproductions OF court records.
deeds and mortgages and in abstracts 10
title as we'll as in all other legal
both public and private. are TO be done away
with by the Copyograph. a commercial pho-
tographic machine which is automatic IN
its operation and will produce a fac simile
OF any written or printed instrument or
page OF record almost instantaneously, at
small cost. This machine will soon be
built In Omaha and put on the market by
a company which has Just been incorpor-
ated for handling the rights Of the machine
in nine states. with Omaha as the manutac-
turing and distributing point.
The cash register. the typewriter the
adding machine, as well as many other
time and labor saving devices and office
appliances. all have their special functions
and places in the commercial world, but
the copyograph, which will make a fac
smile copy Of a page OF any document
or record in about thirty seconds time
also has a very broad field distinctly It's
own. and the Omaha company mas been or
ganized to invade that field and to place
the Copyograph in every county and city
In the nine states adjacent to Omaha.
A strong company. with a capital stock
Of $4,000. headed by F. A. Nash and in
Guiding such well known business men and
professional men as Gould Dietz, ]. A.
Munroe, ]. II. Dumont. Edison Rich, Guy
II. Pratt. Judge w. D. McHugh. r. l..
Lomax. Otto Siemssen and F. A. Castetter'
the banker of Blair. has just been formed
to handle the business Of this company
in Iowa. Minnesota, Wisconsin, South Da-
kota, Montana. Wyoming, Idaho and Ne
braska, with headquarters at Omaha.
The Copyograph is owned and controlled
-. TAn CnDvOOranh MnnVFaCfnriUR COM
pany OF Kansas City. Mo. ]. A. Fullerton.
president: F. O.. Wilcox, vice president
and o. T. Gregory. secretary and treasurer
Of this company have been'in Omaha for
the last ten days or two weeks organizing
the Omaha Copyograph ompany which Is
the name Of the new corporation. The
new company may buy the machines from
the parent company until the business has
reached such proportions as to warrant
the manufacture of the same in Omaha.
THE Copyosraph is a Photographic device
which works automatically, the developing
and fixing all being done within the ma
chine without the use Of a Photographic
plate or dark room, the mechanism OF
which is very simple. being operated by a
motor inside the cabinet" said ]. A. Fuller
ton, president Of the Copyograph Manufac-
turing company. ut is easy Of operation
and anYOne can learn 10 nhIult IL al lAA
minutes. Its field is unique and very broad,
and the business world has long been In
need of such an appliance.
with the Copyograph 1t is possible for
one person to make a complete copy OF a
s4O-page record book in less than a day.
1t will produce in q few seconds Of time
one or more fac simile copies OF a docu-
ment. either written or printed, In single
page form or bound volume. showing the
exact signatures and seals. 1t will repro
duce by the same process maps, drawings,
charts. plants and specifications, and is
therefore valuable to the engineering de-
partments OF cities and railroads and other
institutions, as well as to the architect
While the Copyograph can make any num-
Der Of fac simile copies or a document II
is not intended to invade the field or COM
pete with the multitude OF duplicating de-
vices, It's speciality being that II can make
any number OF different documents, rec
ords. maps or drawings as easily and eco
nomically as 1t can make many copies OF
! one, all being fac Smiles Of the originals
National, state, county and municipal
records would be much more complete and
satisfactory IL they were made in fac smile
with all the signatures in the original hand
writing and all seals preserved. transcripts
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important litigation, Wills and other docu-
ments in the settlement Of estates could be
advantageously reproduced by this process.
Deeds, mortgages and other Instruments
could be recorded by the copyograph system
worked with the loose leaf system which
is now in use in the counties of this and
many other states. and the cost OF record
ing could be reduced TO Is or 20 cents on
| each instrument. whereas II is now from
81 to s.. Both the recorder and the prop
erty owner could feel sure that the record
was correct.
Large commercial and banking institu-
tons as well as law firms will find use for
the Copyograph in making fac SMILES of
important documents and papers.
Mr.. Fullerton said; 1T is the Intention
of the officers OF our company to try 10
effect an arrangement with the Omaha
company to manufacture the machines for
the entire west in Omaha. Heretofore they
have been made under contract in Roches-
tei. N. Y"