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Show HERE POSTAL CARDS ARE MADE w"' Sti& HoUr.y tailed qt tcr pn tal card manu-y manu-y Is locate ' in a little West Virtual) Vir-tual) n mont, high up nmong ITiIarhlan mountains ' Goiernment opeintes the plant cira &nd to mnke sine that It .erlycmlu t-1 there is appointed leit Intel Rtie3 pnital card ird in t r who must pass -rt t,n all of the gooda turned 1 ly ar- all the cards printed bat tlr 1 for them ls man- ml r tl sro The sulphlle nnd paper mills constitute one of the largest plants in the country. There arc branch paper making estahllsh-n estahllsh-n ents at D iv ls, W. Vn , Cov ington, Va , nnd Tsrone Pa. In evers step of the proceis there nre Government specifications to be followed fol-lowed To begin with, the paper Is made Horn spruce trees cut In the West Virginia Vir-ginia forests It must contain C9 per cent of sulphite spruce fibie, 22 per cent of soda chemical llbie bleached, and 0 per cent of English claj. It intuit ho calendered to a uniform weight nnd thickness, and when finished the tint has to be ot uniform hurt W hen It comes to the printing there Is I still a rigid Government standard to 'which the output must conform The j iiunllty of the Ink nnd Its color nre stlp-I stlp-I ulated, and what Is known ns a. "water , finish ' ls not permitted. I Albert Daggett of Urooklsn, N. V., 11s the contractor who supervises tho fnctors'. In tho in lining olllce he hns a force nt forly cmploses. about half of Ihem women 'i hey nre all skilled artisans, ar-tisans, and many aie experts whoo places could not be filled easlls. The staff of workers seems surprisingly surpris-ingly small when their output ls considered. con-sidered. The two printing presses have a capacity of 216 Coo cards nn hour. Tho largest shipment ever made was one of 21 000 COO, sent out from Tlcdmont nn June 18 1900 The shipments nre mndc to the large cits postotllccs nnd to the sub-postal card agencies The latter are located at Cincinnati St. Louis. Troy, New York nnd Washington. D C, and aro known ns distributing otllces. A till car shipment ship-ment means 4 0O0 ono cards, a value of $10,000 per car. Iach car has to be sealed with a special device by tha United States Inspector ot the postnl card factory. Tho curds for every town nnd hamlet In the United states, for 1'orto Illco, Hawaii and the Philippine Islands are nil made In this ono rslab-llihmcnt. |