The log cabin Democrat., 1916-03-04
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 ABOUT NINE MIL ~LION DOLLARS IN CURRENCY IS PRODUCED EVERY DAYAT THE GREAT NEWPlANTOFTHE BUREAU OF EN- CRAVING AND PR|NT|NGAT \ WASHINGTON /
By EDWARD B. CLARK

By EDWARD B. CLARK
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 ONE building during the year
 ending June 30, 1915, Uncle Sam [fA Ia made thirty and half billion dollars
 EJ k1 This money factory is called the bu- M FN reau of engraving and printing PN SM Uncle Sam is the head of the corpo ENKSJ ration which is actively engaged in the production of wealth and he has with him as other members of the Hm aoout one hundred million nephews and 4 nieces.
 This governmental factory produces naner money ponds, revenue postage and custom stamps, checks, drafts and all the important docu mehts printed from engraved plates. The direc tor of the bureau of engraving and nrintinp ,s Joseph E. Ralph He might be called the foreman ioi the greatest money-making shop in the United states of America and perhaps in the world from Director Ralphs own words we learn some. thing specific about the activities of this biz sbon of the capital city:
 The daily output of United States notes gold ana silver certificates and national bank notes is two and one-quarter million notes, having face value Of nine million dollars and weighing over three and half tons If laid out fiat they would cover nine acres, and if placed end to end the daily output would make chain two hundred and fifty miles long.
 Each day forty million postage stamps are manufactured which would cover approximately seven acres, or make chain of stamps six hun dred and twenty miles long. The value of each days stamp output is nearly seven hundred and nfty thousand dollars. Six hundred employees are engaged in stamp manufacture Ffty-one different Kinds Of postage stamps, in denominations from one cent to five dollars are made for the United States and its insuar possessions They are print. ed in fifteen distinctive colors
 Another important part of the bureaus work IS internal revenue stamps, through which an an- naal income of over five hundred million dollars is collected for Uncle Sam. These stamps of larger size than postage stamps. and while the daily output is only twenty million stamps they would cover twenty acres If spread out in single sheets and they weigh six and half tons More than three hundred different varieties are issued"
 In Uncle Sans workshop is made all the paper money for the United States government This means that every man who has dollar bill in his hand, or who is lucky enough to have a bill of larger denomination, may know of certainty that its origin was in a factory situated at the corner of Fourteenth and streets, s. w. in the . city of Washington, D. C.
 And speaking of commercials. there is a thing of marked interest which might be said The bureau of engraving and printing was organized under an act of July H. 1862. From that day to this the government has done its own work It has employed the most skillful engravers that 1t can find and 1t Is matter of pride today to this government that never in the history of the bu. reau has one of it's employees been engaged in the work of counterfeitng. It is true that counter feitng goes on occasionally in different places throughout the United States, but in the hundreds of arrests which have been made of men and women engaged in the work, not one ever had been in the employment of the government and not one found to be in collision with any of Uncle Sams workmen.
 Concerning the matter of engraving, Director Ralph of the bureau has had this to say
 "The engraving division is the corner stone of the bureau and the buwark of our securities In this division form of security has it's origin and the most artistic and skilled engravers that the world produces employed here.
 Steel engraving is the perfection of art ap- piled to securities; it differs from painting and scupturing nasmuch the e~5raver who carves his work on steel plates must deliberately study the effect of each infnitesima line, Free hand, with a diamond-pointed tool, known as a graver. aided by powerful magnifying glass he away conscious that false cut slip of his tool miscaculation of depth width of line will destroy the artistic merit of his creation, and weeks months of labor will have been in vain.