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Show tv Pioneer; Newspaper Has Great History I1 From Humble' Beginning in Grown to 1850 It Ha Power Through Stirring . An Eventful Time. Present Home of The Deseret News Established in 1852 Preaident Zachary Taylor's message to Congress, dated Jan. 1, reproduced from the New York Tribune; a brief notice of the .death of Oliver Cowdery. at Richmond, Itay county. Mo., March 8, 1880, and of John C. Calhoun, an nouncement of a concert to be held In "the Bowery," and a Ust of California gold seekers who had passed through Oregt bait 'Lake and had thoughtfully left a subscription order for The Dea-ey- practiced Bookbinding ofas The Deseret et News. J J VST seventy years ago June IS, It Is difficult for newspaper work 1850, to bo exact the first nam- - era of today to apprectata the dlffl that had to be surmounted In ber of The" Deseret News wasjcultles I ordrr to continue publication In those Three score years I 'published. early days, especially during the early and ten have passed since the paper Vfjftlew. Paper was the most difficult entered upon its career of usefulness. thing to obtain, and several times It necessary to suspend publication It was not the first paper to be es J was unl11 Bew "PP'Y could be secured, west of the Mlaaourlrlver.j i tabllshed fromAu,uat prlod oldestpap to November, lu claim to being the 1882. Paper was brought Fraa-else- o 1 the between art or Winter San from tn eatsteno. either per (on this side ef the river great river and the Paciflo will not Quarters Council Bluffs, Iowa), by ox oppoelte be contested? team . For some time The New manFrom a very humble beginning Thu ufactured Its own paper supply. Other News has grown into a Journal of supplies were also difficult- - to obtain with readers in every and to In stock, so that the task great influence, olvlllaed world. Though of the keep was by no means part of the clientele publishers I In Is naturally its largest an easy one. - When Johnston's army Inter of ths states Utah and other came Into the Territory In 1(68, the mountain section, copies go into svery printing plant was moved to southern corner of the United Btates, to Can-- Utah, part of the general "move America Europe, south." aa Part i.ds, Mexico, South Australia of the plait was estaband the lished In Africa, the Orient. Parowan, and part of It at Islands of the South Seas. Fillmore, and the paper was turned , First Home of Tbo News. out at both places, though Fillmore In ths which paper was headquarterer- Ths building was first printed though whether the Kqntpment Increased. editorial work upon It was also dons A early as 1883 a larger press was thsre Is now uncertainnowstood on the brought to Balt Lake and added to the. occupied by of the site ' east edge of even the equipment of The News, with a new1 the Hotel Utah. Members the supply of type. In the same year y ounger generation may remember site W. Babbitt brought, here a printwall that enclosed that ' did etone ing plant that Included a press and a and the group of old buildings that ago to considerable quantity of Job and body were removed about 10 years typelntending to. begln.A publication. tnakS way for the fine- nsw- - hostslry. Upon his arrival here, however, he Ths first News building wss a low sold hie dobs structure, a reproductionSome-of abandoned bis enterprise and material to the Church, and it wae which appears In this Issue. added to The Desert New plant. thing more than 20 yearsof ago. when in Thus before the close of Its second the structure gave Itsigns was demolished. year The News .establishment had secure and unsafe. The setting up of a printing plant three presses and a good supply of and the Issuance of a newspaper set-in Job and body type.has of course been This equipment the heart of a wild and sparsely added to constantly during the euc as "the bridge of sighs and was one tled country a thousand miles from was ceedlng year. In keeping with new of the most familiar features of th ths mesest outfitting point, and Improving methods and devices old establishment to the newspaper somewhat adventurous but It demonworkers who were called upon to mind of Presrt- -' and the requirements of the growing strated the was es- make use of It. A binding big plant paper. and the great dent Brigham Young In this place The Deseret News reand has been added to from men who were his associates. When tablished to time. A complete set of mod- mained for many years; In fact, untime been had the of pioneers the wagons ern equipment Is devoted to the Job til 1901, .hen it moved over Into Its loaded with supplies at. Wlnta Quar- -' printing. y build For the newspaper proper fin new, and modern most the of ens .consignments ters, the cases of handset type have given lng, on th southwest corner of Main the for and selected packed ma1 and Bouth carefully Temple street, with an 8 linotype way to a battery of was a chines , Jong Journey, by and the other equipment has story annex adjoining on the west. had ssRamage hand printing press. Tt In kept pace with the onward march of These two buildings and the offices of and plant which they house cons' itute From the hand pres fT , been purchased by W. W. Pbelpe progress of 1848-1868 'on which could be printed, with one of the most completely equ.pped Philadelphia aIn the winter was 128 of type, labor and exertion, about newspaper establishments In the west. supply This, with to the Salt hard, Meanwhile, from the first few copeight page papers In an hour, the brought across the plain was ies It has in printed and that were laboriously run off the this department upon Lake valley equipment , In the of little Issued succession lntpr-a hand press in I860, and w'hlch evolved press, through the first paper mountain country. A reproduction ls-of- es to a great modern Hoe press that sold then for 25 cents the copy, the can print and fold 72,000 papers of j circulation of The News has grown , the old hand press appears in this eight pages or 86.000 of 18 pages In until now It has reached a total of 28.-a- n hour. Other departments of The 000 copies 20,000 for the dally and The first Issue of The .News was a have grown and 15.000 for the Where paper, 8 by 10 inches News establishment little eight-pag- e once a boy carried the entir, mailing 1 improved In proportion. In dimension. A facsimile of Page in remain did siot bunThe News In a small of long the herewith. paper . of that Issue is reproduced structure In which shipment small one-stodle to the postoffice, later utilising a The paper was made up almost en- the three-story wheelbarrow when the load grew too being It had Its birth. A larger tirely of reading matter, there One was building had been erected on the eor heavy, now automobiles, electric cars two advertisements. , only ner the southwest wing of the m) steant trains rush the papers out that of 'William McBride, a black- Hotel(where Utah stands), in 1862 for a to th subscribers, and soon the smith end the other an announcement Into the upper part of First Home of The Deseret News. some of them as a will by A, Netbaur, purgeon dentist, who binding The News was moved andthispians it part of the carry The has mail. fast Truly as Street "3d location describes his remained there for some time. In the j Di-e- t News lived to see and play a East and 2d South of the Council spring of 1854 the establishment was part. 'in marvelous changes. It was a long time before removed further north to what was House. , i advertisements were printed In any the north end of the old tithing of Years. 70 News Reader for In third the behind stone wall though stood the flee numbers, that great and fourth issues of the paper ap- on north Main street. About two cSb cSb iSb c8b c8j . dSb ' William W. Riter, well known peared mercantile announcements of years later It was again moved, this store in time to the second floor of the old banker and business man. was a boy Elijah Thomas, who had the Fifteenth ward, and of Holladay Council House, a square building of of 12 years .when the first, Jpgue of and Warner, who announced that they rough redsand stone that stood on had received new stock from the the southwest corner of Main and The Deseret News came off the press, states and would open it for Inspec South Temple streets, where the pres- June 15, 1850. He says he well retion and sale on Wednesday the 8d ent home of The Deseret News now members his father sending him out destrlanlsm, Mr. Anderson calculating stands After return from the move to THERE is a decided difference Inst., In the Eighteenth ward.1 method of that he walked, on covering the dally buy a copy and of the pleasurable, was Installed the perfected the paper south, again Contents of First Number. th paper caused in the gathering news that now obtain, not field, 18 to IS miles a day; and this was In the Council House., where It re- sensation for seven day In the week. All copy In the first issue is found a mained until 1888. when it was again household. Mr. Riter has been a con- only on Th Deseret Newa but on all was written out In long hand, as stenpectus, beaded with the rpotto, Truth taken back across the street to the stant reader of The News ever since. up to date paper and the method, or and Liberty, which became the pa- old site. In the early 70s a second The late George Romney came to rather lack of method, observed year ography and typewriting machines among the rarities of the day. per's slogan. Other contents of Num-- 1-' three-stor- y building, just east of the Salt Lake In October, 1850, four ago. In times of much more simple, were ber 1, Volume 1, Included the follow- one on the corner, was and months after the initial issue, but one primitive living, and less diversified Editors and reporters did not learn erected, ing: Proceedings In the United States the establishment was divided between of his first acta was to subscribe to form of life' activities. For Instance these things until later. There were senate nearly three months previous, them. From an upper story of one The News and he remained a sub- back in the seventies, when John Messrs Seward, Hale and Chase being building to the other was constructed scriber untiL the day of his death a Nicholson wascity editor, reporter and f the wooden bridge, which became known few months ago. principal speakers referred to: general local factotum on The News, It was considered enough for him to stroll down Main street to Fourth South and back again to find out about everything that was going on. It was customary alao. In the early morning the days, to question each In the differ j employees of The toNews see if IbeY Ttnew ent departments, anything going on around town; and as not' few of them lived pn the outskirts of the city, this sort of roundTlie up was more or ei fruitful. scissors played an Important part tit the collection of ness. Then, people would bring a good deal of news Into the office, which greatly helped out. In th day when Halt lake waaherd-l- y more than a good sixefl village, were few and eastlv news center reached, and activities of the day were not particularly complex, or hard to understand. Branching Out. But along toward the middle 84 a th city had outgrown Its swaddling clothe, and had com to assume some pretensions aa a city, and the collection of new assumed a more serious made phase. James H. Anderson was city edltoc and beiiintent on obey. Ingth Injunction of the lata Pamuel Bowles, to "print the news and the truth about it, be imposed on himself the tank of actually covering the ground, by night as well s by dsy. working often 18 hour a day. Thg Iclesortng of the morning papers continued In honored observance, but every single Item had to ba verified before sent to the compoelng rvim. Mr. Anderson was the whole thing, as the before, reportorlal fore had been working alone for severs! years before wae He he gHren all the courts, the railroads, tela, meetings of all kinds, municipal. - 1 Al-m- far-seei- six-stor- - ox-tea- w ' Progress Shown in Work of Bindery, 7. semi-weekl- y. ry , air-stor- e. f Changes in News Gathering Comparison of Old and New In th News today and In 1882 when th bindery was first established with John B. Kelly aa foreman and two or litre Many Give Their Best Years other employees, presents some InterTo Institution Several esting comparison not only as to th else and growth of th plant, but also Veterans of 40 Years Still aa to the quality and output of th work. In Service. The machinery of the ploneet binders wss brought to this territory from the east, across the trackless plains, in wagons drawn by oxen.. Months O name all the men and women were required for th transportation. who have taken an active part In making "amt conducting The" Th process of bookbinding In th was News would, of course, Deseret alow, very days necessarily, early and most of tha work was don by be an Impossible task, but some ' of stood out conband.. A L this time. what took. .weeks the foremostIn who have the various periods of of patient, painstaking work, ts now spicuously th growth can he recalled; dor. speedily by turning on the elec- and paper's It la fitting and proper that on of this anniversary they tricity and. pressing a lever. Front a the occasion be remembered. When The meager collection of crude machinery should News was first planned, Brest. Deseret handled by three or fou persona, th Brigham Young called upon four men Institution Jiaa grown until It Is now to bring out the pioneer Journal. Wilon of the leading establishments of lard Hlchards was namfd as editor, Horaoq K. Whitney, who had some Its kind In the west. experience with tvpe in Nauvoo, was ' Hrctrlo Devtors, designated as printer; Brigham H. Young as pressman and Thomas BulFormerly the cutting, folding, per- lock aa proofreader. Elder Richard wer don and all forating, sewing remained editor until his death In by hand, with ths expenditure of much 1884. Orson Bpencer occasionally lent labor and time. Todey there I him aid In his editorial-duti- es Elder tng lacking in The Deseret .News bind- - Hlchards was succeeded by Albert ery to make U an plant,- la Carrington, who retained the position foldlnr,-fo- r Inatance, the work ts 1868, when Judge Ellas Smith done by a machine which has a cap , until her me the editor. Judge Hrnlth held 1.800 of work per hour, doing aclty ,h po,Ucn unt mi, when Albert equal to that of 12 expert girl fold- - Carrington resumed it with some as-- rl th papr slntsnre from T. B. H. F ten house. In ftJTtr the gathering tab ter where brri8i7 dorg q. Cannurr succeeded Edt-a- re made Into book form.The sewing Carrington. Up to 1888 the pa- n n our- per had appeared as a weekly, but In or the equivalent of the work of 10 thRt y,Br m m.w,ekly edition was girts. started. On Nov. 21. after Georg The perforating la done quickly and Q Cannon became 1867, editor, the first completely today by a machine with number of th dally. The Deseret 'the saving of a great deal of trouble News, wss Issued. Prominently assoIncident to pasting The glue pot In ciated with Mr. Cannon 'In th editorial the modern bindery Is heated by elec- j department at thta time were Edward In Th devices are trlclty. ruling L Bloan and David W.. Evans. From genlously constructed. Regardless of that date the paper was continued in how small the lines are, or how many three editions, daily, there are to run, the machine does weekly, until Dec., 188. when and the the work perfectly. was discontinued. The flnlahlng room, where th gilt weekly In tlie Hcttmiw. lettering and gilt edging are done, 1 In 1274 David O. Calder became one of the most interesting- - points of both the editorial and manager about tJja bindery. Book binding in all Its branches Is business dep.irlmcnnrbf the paper, hi done In the plant. IX handles ovsr principal editorial writer being John control 100 dlf Canned Young, Jr., took charge 000 magaxlne are turned out by the ?1 abort time, and then Charles W. ,or bindery per month. f. acting If the work done by this bindery tn be abthe early day wae a slow srnrtx ,tnul 1284. He was from winded Ur. tut cl.ty end don with crude machinery, it M,"' hl anilh, was. nevertheless, of the lusting kind. J1"nc 1c1tln dt0Jf Today there are scores of old vol-- ! umes, Territorial and municipal rec-- 1 rcni.ed bt Ing ot 18 90 "Kb and P, ,KJ J" ords, whose excellent condition a to tor uni ' binding la a strong indication of idl was News unover taken I ,The excellence of h work. Todav tha Wh by Joh" ? ;n,d Abraham plant is directed by gupt. ""dent Oeorga Vn. Buckle, who first served as an atyrtm-l,1- ?' tic. under Mr. Kelley many yeara Q,'1Cj"Um H. Can- n'Cblbf and The force of workers now numbers j In 1898. Col. )lon business manager. gg ih. bindery today, with it. advanced war as commander of machinery, ia prepared to handle any Utah's troop of Rough Riders, J. M. kind of work Incident to book bindacted a editor from that time ing. from a vest pocket note book to KJodabl until the paper Veverted to Church a plank book tif (ha - control largest Jan. 1, 1899, when Charles W. Penrose again became editor and Hor-uc- e O. Whitney became business manType Set at Smith Home. ager. Mr. Ptnrose continued as edi1908. when he left te During th early years of Tlie Neat tor until Oct. the establishment was small and was preside ove- - the Eurofiean mission. was He succeeded as editor by J. M. moved around considerably. Much of the time It was not all under the BJodahl, who retained the position same roof. For a time, tt seems, type until 1614, being then followed by E. ' was set in the attic of Judge Elia LeRoy Bourne. When the V. 8. troops Smith's horn on North. Temple be- were called to the Mexican border tween West Temple and First West Capt. Bourn went in command of streets Judge" Hmtth was editor of troop of Utah cavalry, and th edithe paper for several years. Bishop torial duties at The News fell upon Ellas B. Woodruff, the present busi- Col. John Q. Cannon, When th Untness manager and grandson of ied State entered th world war Capt. Judge Smith, say that one of his boy- Bourne, advanc'ng to major and later hood recollections Is being in the at- to lieutenant eolnr.el, remained In the 146th F. tic and being told by Grandmother! service and wen snli t' Col. John Smith. "This type A. (First Utnhi. to te f:'n W semi-week- dlt0'-J"bie- ! i, (w 'T !. I eev-ger- T Old Home of Tlie J New, With Business Office Added and Two Buildings Connected By Wooden Bridge ?JaTTki 7ew"utd 'oi p- - The News Occupied Part of This Building for Many Years. ly |