SKETCHES AND PAPERS ON THE SILVER, POSTAL TELEGRAPH AND OTHER ECONOMIC QUESTIONS
Colorado Springs, Colorado: The Gazette Printing Company, 1890. First Edition (NAP). Hardcover. Quarto. Navy blue cloth over boards (9 inches x 6 1/4 inches). Publisher's original paper label to spine, faded, chipped, unreadable. Rubbing to board faces and extremities Chocolate brown endpapers with bookseller's (Sidney Kramer Books/1722 H St., NW, Washington, DC) ticket affixed to bottom of free endpaper. Stamp to verso of front free endpaper of Denver booksellers Pierce and Zahn who operated a used bookshop specializing in Americana roughly from about 1900 to the start of World War I. The first 131 pp. are taken up with one of the most "important questions now agitating the public mind...". Silver and related matters (coinage, certificates, monetization, etc.) This is followed by a 33 pp. section examining "Payment of The National Debt". The work is followed by Hills essays on "The Postal Telegraph,"; "The Backbone Land Grant"; and "The Question of The House". Text block is lightly age-tanned and binding is very solild for this scarce, late 19th-century economic work. Good. Item #100190
Nathaniel P. Hill (1832-1900) was an accompllished metallurgist, chemist, college chemistry professor, "mining entrepeneur and U.S. Senator from Colorado...". who served as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Post Office and Post Roads. Professionally he developed a more efficient system of smelting, or removing metals from ore which revolutionized the mining industry in his home state and beyond. (Notes excerpted from History Colorado's Colorado Encyclopedia). Hill was an expert on the important questions of whether silver should be monetized, as well as silver coinage and certificates in general. In addition, Hill also had done much research on the workings and "... facts relating to the Postal Telegraph" (Publisher's Preface).
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