The Raymer enterprise., 1916-03-02

WIN hilh as Other members OF the
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This governmental factory produces uaper
money. bonds revenue postage and custom
stamps, checks. drafts and all the imn5rtaut doom
meEts printed from engraved plates The direc
cor OF the bureau OF engraving and printing ia
'o"eph u. halph lie might be called the foreman
oi tle greatest money-making shop in the United
states OF America and perhaps in the world
IRON director Ralph's own words we learn some
th'ne specific about the activities of this big yhon
II the capital city:
ne daily output of United States notes yold
and silver certificates and national bank notes ia
TWO aud one-auarter million notes. having a face
yalue OF nine million dollars and weighing over
three and half tons Ii laid out fat they vouId
cover nine acres. and ii placed end tn end tbe
aa'y output would make chain tive hundred and
atty miles long
Each day forty million postage stamps are
manufactured. which would cover approximately
seven acres, Ut make chain of stamrs six hun
dred and twenty miles long. The value Of each
Gays 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 insular possessions They are print
ed in fifteen distinctive colors
Another important part Of the bureaus work
IS internal revenue stamps through which an an.
nua' income of five hundred million dollars is
collected for Uncle Sam. These stamps are of
larger size than postage stamps and while the
daily output is only twenty million stamps they
would cover twenty acres II 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 hill of
larger denomination. may know of certainty
that its origin in factory situated at the
corner OF Fourteenth and C streets S. w in the
city OF Washington, d. C.
And speaking of counterfets there Is a thing
OF marked interest which might be said The
bureau OF engraving and printing was organized
under act of July H. 1862. Frcm that lay to
this the government has done its own work II
has employed the most skillful engrayers that It
find and 1t is / matter OF pride today to this
government that never in the history of the bu.
reau has one Of its employees been engaged In the
work Of counterfeiting. II Is true that counter,
feiting goes 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 no. one ever had
been in the employment of the government and
not one was found to be in collision with any of
Uncle Sans 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 bulwark OF our securities. In
this division every form Of security has its origin
and the most artistic and skilled engrayers that
the world produces are employed here
Steel engraving is the perfection of art as ap.
piled to securities: ii differs from painting and
sculpturing, inasmueh as TIE engraver who carves
his work steel plates must deliberately study
the effect of each ninitesmal line. Free hand.
with a damond-ponted tool, known a graver,
aided by a powerful magnifying glass he carves
away, conscious that one false cut or slip of his
tool or misealeuiation Of depth or width Of line
will destroy the artistic merit of his creation,
and weeks or months Of labor will have been In
ssaio