The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1914-01-13
HOW THE LOST
OR STOLEN IS
NOW FOUND
Identification Bureau Keeps Tabs On
Thousands OF
Guns

Most everyone knows that an au-
tomobile may be identified wherever
1t wanders. not only by its license tag
but by serial number stamped usual
ly on the rear OF the chassis frame.
Both this license number and serial
number are filed at the capitol OF
the state wherein the owner of the
car resides and the serial number
with the manufacturer OF the car.
The selling price Of automobiles
runs into hundreds of dollars at least
more generally into thousands and it
is not strange that some sort of re-
cord plan has been developed for
keeping tabs on such goodly bundle
of property. But who would assume
that every one Of the hundreds OF
thousands of Remington repeating and
auto loading shotguns and rifles in
use in the United States costing sim
ely. but small fraction Of the price
OF the cheapest automobile are sim
ilarly numbered and registered at a
central point?
Going to the Remington factory for
information we find that on every
arm produced there a serial number
Is stamped into the steel. This num-
Der cannot be removed except by fl
ing, which would be an obvious evil
dence Of wrong doing. With every gun
shipped is included stamped identi-
flcation card which the purchaser fills
III with his name and address, the
model and serial number OF the gun,
date Of purchase, etc. This card he
mails to the main offices Of the Rem
ington Company, at New York City,
where in gun Identification bureau
which has long been maintained the
card is filed in a fire proof cabinet.
The series of cabinets in which the
cards are filed has evolved from the
modest little wooden drawer used in
the early days Of Remington gu2 max
ing to constantly growing row OF
modern all steel compartments.
The daily requests that fall within
the province Of this bureau to handle
have to do with everything that can
happen to gun and some things that
can only be imagined. Probably the
most frequent calls for help come from
the theft or loss of guns. A typical
case was brought to the attention Of
the bureau few months ago when
DR.. c. B. Brown of Portland, Ore
gon, reported that his Remington rifle
had been stolen frcm gun club lock
ell. 1t later developed that this rife
was thrown by the pursued thief into
the Columbia River, where it lay for
twelve months, when it was returned
to DR.. Brown, who squirted little
oil into the actor and went on shoot
ing the weapon as he had done one
year before. 1t was necessary, how.
tNtl, lNu INC puiSou w SohNihNC ~
Brown that it was really his own gun
that had withstood such long bath
practically unframed.
Now and then some shooter writes
in that he has allowed his gun to
become mixed with others Of. the
same model and has not been able
to pick it out. 1t is easy to imagine
how this difficulty may come to pass
when it is considered that in many
gun clubs score or more Of Reming
tons Of the same model and general
appearance are in use. In some lost
strayed or. stolen cases the trained
employees Of the bureau lend their
experience to quite elaborate investi
cations, rendering service that would
be hard to duplicate through any 9th
er medium.
So the sportsman may feel satisfied
that he same cal eful records are on
file regarding his favorite Remington
that are available in connection with
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