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Show COUNTERFEITING AND THE COS,T. The recent raid and arrest in Ogden by United States officers in connection with a counterfeiting case is an example of the cost the violators of the' federal laws pay to carry on their work. In the present case it is claimed the accused had a plant in Ogden, where the turned out 50-cent pieces. It is probable that tiie counterfeiters counterfeit-ers had not put much of the "queer" in circulation "before Uncle Sam's officers were on the trail. A good example of the cost the counterfeiter goes to may be had from the following report from Chicago which says: Counterfeiting nickols at a cost of 25 cents each is an industry in Chicago which the government secret service has kindly stopped, for which Andrew Barto, the accused man, may well be glad. According Ac-cording to the testimony of Captain T. I Porter, head of the secret service, it required an hour and a half of time to make three lead -nickels. At this rate each nickel would have cost a quarter, yet he either had rosy dreams of fortune by disposing of them at 2 cents' each in bulk or he was a man so determined on being crooked that ho would rather lose money at it than be honest The counterfeiting coun-terfeiting outfit consisted of a heavy stamping machine, bellows, forge, stamping press and a number of devices for polishing and trimming the coins, all very workman-like and successful, but expensive ex-pensive in the matter of time. "To make the coin." Captain Porter testified, "Barto first had to cut the nickels from a sheet of lead and then polish the edges for fully 15 minutes by hand. Then he put the unfinished piece on the mold and set it under a heavy weight which ho lifted to tho ceiling of his den with a hand windlass wind-lass until he released ,&. catch and dropped the weight on the steel die. If the weight hit accurately the bogus coin was stamped, but he spoiled three out of fivo." W |