Show for the deseret news THE G S L CITY DEC 5 1853 DR W RICHARDS ED NEWS complaint concerning the price of your paper and also the charge upon job work done in your office has induced me and in a manner urged upon me the necessity of pr presenting es enting a few items and facts f tor or the consideration of the wise which if thought proper you may lay before your readers the DESERET NEWS is published at the rate of five dollars a year advertisements are inserted at one dollar and fifty cents per square for first insertion and fi fifty aty cents for each subsequent all job work is is charged double its original cost to the office and this abis per cannot be deemed by any judicious judgment more than adequate to cover the expenses of rent wood light salary of clerk and apprentices to say nothing 0 of wear and tear of materials editors demands etc etc now let us ence a moment at the rates for corresponding items in other cities in the united states in new york boston philadelphia and an dother other large eastern towns publishing is not as it is s here we are cited by y certain individuals to the low rates of lar large e weeklies printed there and ask why should the deseret aseret news aws cost so much more were these individuals aware of the course pursued in the publication of these sheets such a question would not be asked to the mass masa of your readers a word of explanation I 1 will perhaps 3 prove novel and correct mis misguided views the popular weeklies of the east are printed in large type leaded and open as possible the type set by boys or girls at a scanty pittance per week thus taking the bread from rom the mouths of master workmen most if not all the matter is ig previously used in a daily tn weekly and semiweekly semi weekly paper and finally anally in in a magazine or nove novel and printed by at the rate of from to 20 sheets per hour at a cost almost inconsiderable may they not well afford to throw out great inducements to dubs thus their circulation is swelled to thousands andl hundreds of thousands of copies a and nd every cent must be paid in CASH in VA xan if the citizens citizen st of deseret wish to support a dally daily tri weekly semiweekly semi weekly weekly and a monthly magazine all containing the same matter betat set at the same time by the same hands we can offer great inducements dace du to dubs clubs also but until then we must forbear and content ourselves with the patronage of those who appreciate our work I 1 advertisements are charged in the states east at the rate of one dollar for first insertion and from 30 to 50 dents cents tor for 3 aali continuance ti nuance in california one dollar per line has bus been the price in oregon five dollars for first insertion and one dollar for every additional job jab work in the east is about one third lower than here westward in california and oregon from one hundred to five hundred per cent more composition is much less here combar a dively than in the states stated as the prices i 11 aid to journeymen there varies from 30 to 5 cents pe per I 1 1000 00 ems while here but 50 i cents is paid and in california from 1 to now egv while so great reat an advance is ia noticed in the prices of california for newspapers advertising ae ac their paper which isa is a prominent item does not cost them at most over one third it costs us up nor kioes their type presses ink and boer material in we the states paper is is wo wor ahl thAnna etim 2 to 3 per re ream ar when here it costs 9 to 10 what is the ton conclusion elusion sir plainly that paper advertising advertising foid and ob lob ark wark considering I th the relative cost is aar far cheaper in deseret I 1 than any other part of the united I 1 states I 1 another small item how are subscriptions sto to the DESERET NEWS paid in gold no the paper is printed for the GOOD 0 of the people and aad anything they have from a shoestring shoe string to a bushel of wheat is received in payment that they may have it and enjoy the benefit 0 how tani tan 1 mr editor it is one of the mysteries of oe the kingdom how you manage under such circumstances to publish a paper here and keep beep good your stock when not one dollar in in a hundred indeed I 1 might say five hundred is paid is iii cash in the states of oe iowa and wisconsin government pays 2 per 1000 ems for their printing and in the mountain territory over one thousand miles of land transportation his has been grumbled at however at present there is no complaint in fact I 1 beard heard mr babbitt the secretary say within in a day or two that the public printing was not half paid for in this place viewing the proportionate cost and prices allowed for the same work in other parts of the united states but enough 1 I I 1 have now written beyond my intention at first and duty to myself and you and the DESERET NEWS office and those employed therein has prompted these remarks shall the saints value the instructions of the servants of god with money or murmur to bear their burden of the kingdom Bt burden irden did I 1 say gayy when a man receives a full equivalent for his means expended who shall place place an estimate upon the worth of counsel revelation doctrine and truth contained in the columns of the DESERET NEWS to what party or clique or faction is the influence and the power of this sheet devoted tl ted d are its columns filled with electioneer ing boin bombast bast or abuse or calumny or libet libels or falsifying political men or political measures or any other disgusting ribaldry let those thos e who read it and partake of its is pure spirit answer others cannot and may the time soon come when there shall be none to find fault unjustly when this or organ 9 an of the binl kingdom adom of god shall be fully appreciated when those who receive its leach teachings ings and obey its counsels I 1 shall become wise unto salvation and when its circulation I 1 shall not be limited by the confines of these mountains but extend through every nation kindred tongue al and people on the globe I 1 yours in the hopes and consolations of the gospel of truth 0 BROWER foreman of the deseret news office and a practical printer fiovo dec 2 1853 BROTHER RICHARDS DEAR slit SIR last night between 12 and I 1 the hands employed in the grist mill of smith higbee were ware attacked and fired upon by a party of indians indi ins while pursuing their regular business 11 none nona of bf the pardons inthe in the mill were injured altho the bullet from one rifle line went through vie tie hopper of the smut machine and passed out of the back door after the indans fired upon the hands in the mill they immediately retreated when some dogs were put upon their trail and followed follow d them towards rock kanyon attar after daylight it was discovered that tile the ludi Iud iuis ms had mor mortally martilly tilly wounded four horses besides several others which may probably recover the mill was not guarded neither were there any fire arms in the mill except one gun which w was a loaded but could not norgo go off this morning capt chesley with a party of men have gone in pursuit of the Iud indians ians to recover if possible any cattle or other property which may have been carried off by them respectfully yon rs ac GEO A SMITH |