Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1916-03-10

AkpSl ration which is actively engaged in
the production of wealth. and he has
with him other members of the
firm about one hundred million nephews and
nieces
This governmental factory produces paper
money, bonds, revenue, postage and custom
stamps, checks, drafts and all the important docu-
ments printed from engraved plates. The direc-
tor OF the bureau of en- craving and printing is
Joseph e. Ralph. He might be called the foreman
OF the greatest moneymaking shop in the United
States OF America and perhaps in the world
From Director Ralph's own words learn some
thing specific about the activities of this big shop
of the capital city:
'The daily output OF United States notes. gold
and silver certificates and national bank notes, 10
two and one-quarter million notes. having a face
value OF nine million dollars and weighing over
three and half tons II laid out fat they would
cover nine acres. and II 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, make chain of stamps six hun
dred and twenty miles long. The value OF each
days stamp output is nearly seven hundred and
fifty thousand dollars Six hundred employees are
engaged in stamp manufacture. Fifty-one different
kinds of postage stamps, in denominations from
cent to Ave dollars. made for the United
States and its insular possessions They print
ed in fifteen distinctive coiors
Another important part OF the bureaus work
is internal revenue stamps. through which an an
nual income OF over nVe hundred million dollars ID
collected for Uncle Sam. These stamps OF
larger size than postage stamps, and while the
daily output Is only twenty million stamps. they
would twenty acres IL spread out in single
sheets, and they weigh six and half TONS More
than three hundred different varieties 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
j hand or who is lucky enough to have a bill of
/ larger denomination may know of certainty
kI,a tie rfo cir In al
corner of Fourteenth and streets, 8. w, in the
city of Washington, d. G.
And speaking of counterfeits there is thing
/ of marked interest which might be said. The
bureau of engraving and prthting was organized
| under an act OF July Il. 1852 From that day to
| this the government has done Its own work. II
| has employed the most skfu engravers that 1t
can find and 1t is matter OF pride today 70 TINS
/ government that in the history Of the bu-
reau has one of its employees been engaged In the
work of counterfeiting 1t is true that counter
| feiting goes on occasionally in different places
throughout the United States. but in the hundreds
i nf 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 was found to be In collusion with any OF
Uncle Sans workmen
Concerning the matter of engraving, Director
RaInh of the bureau has had this to say:
.aThe engraving division In the corner stone OF
the bureau and the bulwark Of our securities. IN
this division every form of security has It's origin
and the most artistic and skilled engraSefs that
the world produces employed here
..steeI engraving is the perfection of art as ap-
plied to securities; It differs from painting and
scuiuturing inasmuch as the engrayer who carves
his work on steel plates must deliberately study
the effect of each inhnitesimal line. Free hand.
ytth 4 diamondpointed tool known as graver.
aided by a powerful magnifying glass. he earFes
ayay conscious that false cut or slip OF MS
tool or miscalculation Of depth or width OF line
win destroy the artistic merit Of his creation
and weeks or months of labor will have been In