Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1910-11-11
The Biggest Printing Office i'm
the World.

ne united states has the hneSt and
largest printing office i'm the world.
1t is fitting that this government,
where universal education and indi-
vidual enlightenment find their best
expression, should be the foremost
nation i'm the dissemination of all
classes of COVE rnmental literature. 1t
costs Uncle Sam at least $50, 600, 600
year to carry on his printing and
publishing business.
OF this So, 900, 600 is expended in
the printing of the literature and at
least $12, 900, 900 for its preparation
There are a thousand different impor-
tant books and pamphlets printed ev-
cry year by the government, to say
nothing of the large number of circu-
lars, bills and other small jobs. There
are several daily, a number of weekly
and many notify publications issued
by the governm ent.
The building in which the big print
ing establishment is housed cost more
than So, 600, 600. The entire plant
is valued at upwards of SIG. 600, 600.
The aggregate number of pieces of
printed matter sent out is large that
the officials no longer keep accurate
accounts of them. As far back as 1907
30, 5000, 600 pieces were turned out
and So, 600, 600 pages of type were
set up. The appropriations for the
big printing office amount approx
mately to So. 900, 600 a year, which
represents three-fourths of the print
ing expenses of the government. The
major portion of the government print
ing done outside of the government
printing office is done outside of the
city of Washington.
In spite of the fact that every
known practical labor saving machine
is used at the government printing
Office, the force required is paid 81, e.
600, 600 year, and there is an appro-
priation of more than $500, 600 for
leaves Of absence. 1t requires a mil
lion dollar worth of paper and $500, e.
600 worth of other machinery for n
years operations. When one goes
through the government printing office
he finds many wonderful things. One
room has about eighty linotype ma
chimes, the largest number to be found
IN any single room i'm the world. In
another room are melting pots SO
! large that they hold fifteen tons of
molten metal. In another room press
es are found whose combined output
IS more than one million impressions
every hour. Among all the 81 press
es in this room there is not a pulley
or belt in sight, each machine being
operated by its own individual motor.
The printers ink is applied to 40
| tons of paper every eight hours. There
are card presses which turn out half
million cards day.
The job office is also the biggest of
the kind in the world. Il turns out
more job work in single day than
the average plant can turn out in a
full week. Everything in 1.-THE way
OF project equipments is found in this
plant. On the same floor with the iob
Office is the office of the Public Print
er, which has the reputation of being
the most finely furnished office in the
entire building service.
With its hundreds of compositors
and proofreaders there would be a
wide diversity of style were it not
for the adoption of a manual of
style to which strict adherence is
required. This style book is said to
be the most complete in the United
States, although it is very different
from the style used in the newspaper
offices Of the country.
1t Is the opinion of many newspa-
per men that the governments print
ing bill might be cut in two if proper
system of editing were in vogue.