Show KNOW UTAH By A ALBERT BERT F F. PHILIPS When hen the pioneers camo carn to Utah they brought but little mon money with them However they the soon Boon learned that whilo the country did not require much money mony a c. small amount was WaI necessary for convenience convenience con con- alone The result was vas the coining of ot gold Old pieces from tho the gold gob dust which members of ot the Monnon Mormon battalion brought homo home with them from C California S coins were were- coined before tho the state of or Deseret was wa organized Currency also was ne needed cd and on January 1 i 1 1849 1841 tho first bill was Issued That was ws one eighty years cars ago go this m month nth I Tho The currency was waa U printed from movable type set fet et J b by Brigham Young and Thomas Bullock the latter being tho the private B secretary of or tho the pioneer I leader and nd the printing printing- of or the tho hUlA bills was the tIme first printing done don In the tho Rocky mountains Prior to the issuing of ot this currency bills Issued by tho the d defunct Kirtland Kirtland Kirt- Kirt land bank Ohio or-Ohio which fl failed In the panic of or 1837 were In use use In Salt Like Lake Cit City as as' currency Later LIlter In January 1849 fractional currency made Its ap appearance ap- ap the type being set by Brigham Young andT and T Thomas Bullock and printed by them 0 S Scipio C. C Kenner In a n. story about Utah In speakIng speakinG speak speak- ing of or the theo lack of at currency In lh the earl early days s said Id While tho object of or tho the pioneers and those who I came soon oon after the first settlement was mado made was not tb the tho pursuit of at wealth nor partaking In an any sen sense e of ot the tho nature of ot speculation It still sUlI followed that transactions between man and men man must prevail to I some extent This grew Into trade hade t trade tle into business business business busi busi- ness establishments and out of or it t all aU c commercial regu- regu in one ono form or another r to to an extent nt goY governed ned by circumstances is brought into existence While at tho the first ant to a n. diminishing extent later on otto this ma may be carried on by means of or barter bartel and trade yet ret there must in all cases come a a. time when all alt such systems ms must be found too burdensome burdensome burden burden- some game and slow and some flome form of ot money must be used to effect exchanges with And It was wa this that ca caused ed the Ole attempt to establish a a. mint In Salt Lake to coin gold that the business which had already come como and which was waa ns then starting on a large largo scale could be handled In a a. methodical way rn When specie payments were cro suspended by tho the government government gov gov- soon after arter tho the Civil Ci war broke out came camel l a a- new mew clement element in mone money circulation When hen tho flood of or paper papel money drove gold old to a premium in tho the earl early part of or the war It also swept away tho the subsidiary coinage Then it became necess necessary y to supply the place of or tho the sub subsidiary coinage with small notes called postage and later fractional currency and in 1862 an Issue of or was ras authorized S I From tho the hl highest hest to tho time lowest denominations the latter being a a. S-c S 3 cent nt Iap paper r note tho the monetary circulation circulation cir cir- cir cir- of r thc United d States was paper only The rhe paper papel cUI currency nc was waa as a a. wonderful convenience cOn for the pp people plo as were the shin plasters issued by br Brigham Young S S 5 Facilities In tho the earl early days of tho Civil ChU war ar were not such as they are today and the engraving on tho the fractional cun currency was so ISO o poor that ono one issue of ol fifty-cent fifty notes were called In because the th work on the tho counterfeit was vas better than tho the original In Ina a a. bank window in Salt Lake are shown a a. number of ot the postage or fractional currency notes Compare th them m with the beautiful works of art of or the present pap paper r currency |