Show I SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST IN I THE HISTORY OF JOURNALISM IN SALT LAKE II f Y 4 ry R 3 I m t 1 3 5 H L A CULMER Who Published the First Mining Minin Notes in a a Local Low Periodical in His Eis Magazine the tho Salt Lake Journal of Commerce in 1887 LOSE upon forty periodicals are CLOSE CLOSS published in Salt Lake Of Ot this number five are issued lasted dally three fifteen weekly two semi semimonthly semimonthly monthly ten tan monthly and two or three every evory little lIWe while They are in iri hibe dx lx be language languages Gorman German n Dan Danish Danish ish Swedish Greek and Japanese Six of thorn them are church o publications ten tD represent political parties and sat au th the Dally Daily Abstractor b fractor and arid the Court Calendar are merely statis statta statistical record shoot These periodicals periodical with a few r T ex exceptions exceptions c are Ute the th successors of ot a long line of ot d defunct publications that hat hail haila hata a more moro or l Ie less w extended vogue in n their th tr day d Of Ot the four great greot dally ROWS news newspapers papers the Deseret Evening News Nes Is la lathe the t only ono one with a continuous his history tory which d dates dAte t from Its establish establishment h mont ment June 16 15 This pioneer l newspaper pap r of ot the Rocky Mountain re glon originally a small quarto issued room in the old Constitution building weekly became a dally daily dall in November 1867 1861 The Salt Lako Lake had Its Hs beginnings In hi Ute the Daily Dally Tele Tol Telegraph graph first Issued l s d in nl 1864 and edited by T B D XI U Stets June 6 1876 1878 the Salt Lake DIke Harald 11 to took k the place of or the tho Telegraph fi which had suspended B So L 1 Sloan and William WilliamC C Dunbar Dun r with whom was wee almost immediately associated John T Caine bought the type and press of or the de defunct defunct defunct paper and moved Into the old Constitutional building where they thc began the publication of a Democratic D daily dally August t 13 1 aOl 09 the Salt S lt Lake Herald and The Int consolidated under und r the name namo of ot The Salt Lake The Tile Telegraph The Dally Dall Telegraph wa was w hOWled housed In Ina Ina Ina a building on em West neat First South street From its second floor r I it x i ic 4 of Y I y r rc v v t I Iv r i rt 1 0 9 If t rik 4 x xi c i K Kc L y c p 1 r h Y Ya j f F a J f i i j t N g jd q i t K KY J W W Y r f 1 i yx f e ec eh ei c it itE h i i iq q Y t 4 1 j jE E L SLOAN LOAN Former Tenner Newspaper r Man Han and One Ona of the Three Original Proprietors of the Bait Salt Lake Herald Founded in 1870 the Salt Lake Lako Herald moved to a warehouse on First South street Just i east of or the Deseret National bank building Later it occupied a storo store on i Main street on the site alte of or the R K KThomas KThomas Thomas Dry Goods company and then thenor for or years oars found a home In tho the build building buildIng ing now known as the Herald Hotel Seeking a Main street location nan another an another other move was WM made to tho the Progress block which was abandoned for tor the present pr sent building The Salt Lake tIke Tribune Is la successor or orto to tho the Utah Magazine first Issued In January 1866 and to tho the Mormon Monnon Tribune established d in January 1870 The Evening Telegram so far as M Its Associated A Frees Pre 8 franchise Is 18 con concerned concerned corned had its beginnings in the Salt Lake Chronicle of or 1882 the Salt Lake Democrat and the Salt Lake Times which had Intermittent careers of ot from one to three thre years The history hl tory or of Salt Lako is written In the tho files flies of or these papers together with those of ot many others other which long since suspended publication A curious feature of ot o this history hl tory is the tho Persistency Persist ency eney with which new periodicals con constantly constantly sprang up nothing deterred by bythe bythe bythe the failure of or countless predecessors A few years ago a well welt known local newspaper man was given 2000 by bya a friend and told to go to it in the newspaper game Uvel weekly was the result which ran a successful luc course while white the money mone lasted It suspended because at the time the city was wall small and could not support such sucha a publication The success of o the forty fort periodicals of or today shows that it came some Rome years ears too soon Following tho the Deseret News the next publication was the Valley Tan of or which the first number was Wall issued November 5 6 1858 1868 It was a four page weekly week and the first Gentile print of ot the territory edited by Mark lark Anderson at Salt Lake though it originated originated at Camp Floyd Flod FlodIn In opposition to the Valley Tan the Mountaineer was established August I 27 1859 1359 The editors proprietors and I of ot this periodical were James Ferguson Seth M IL Blair and nd Hosea Hosca Stout An Important publication was w the Union Vedette begun at Camp Douglas by b General Patrick Ed Edward Edward Edward ward Connor and edited by Captain Charles Cb H Hempstead ad ono or Con Connors Connors Connors nors subordinate nat om er after afterward afterward afterward ward a prominent lawyer of or tho the city ell The Tho Valley Tan and the Mountaineer had by this time disappeared and the Vedette began publication November 20 1863 It became a daily dally the firstin first firstIn firstIn In the tho valley January 5 1864 The Th paper Was aas W s a small shoot with a circulation In the tho city of ot about copies Lucius A Bill BUI Billings ings Inge now superintendent of the tho mall mail mallIng mailIng mallIng Ing department of oC the Salt Lake Lale post office was carrier between the tho camp and the city for more then a n Later the paper was wag as published in the city Tho The Dally Telegraph a vigorous op 01 d g p 1 t tt Y t D s 4 W Y k Y C WILLIAM 0 O DUNBAR One of the Three Original Owners of tho Salt Lake Lako Herald of ot the tho Vedette and lineal fore forerunner forerunner forerunner runner of The Salt Lake Lako publican was first tint issued In July 1864 by b T B D H Stenhouse It had an eventful career lasting about five years ears October 1 I 1864 the made a beginning It was waR a maga magar magazine sine zine of or science clence literature and the arts probably the first of ot Its kind west of ot the tho Missouri Its editors were E LT L LT T Harrison and Edward W and it was printed at the tho Vedette office of or office fice fico at Camp Douglas It lasted nearly two years car carThe The Utah Magazine was established 1866 and ran about three years ears The Tho proprietors were William WilliamS i S G Godbe and E L T Harrison the tho latter Iatter being editor It was succeeded by b the Mormon Tribune ne About this time Ume a R little sheet called the Curtain edited by b E L Sloan was ns published in tho the Interests ts of or tho the Salt Lake Lako the theatre theatre theatre atre and gratuitously circulated Two o comic papers of or this day with political leanings were the established by b George orge J Taylor in March 1870 and Its opponent op opponent opponent Diogenes edited by Daniel Camomile Those papers paper were ero short lived lasting each about six months The Tho Mormon Monnon Tribune which was the Utah Magazine Magazino transformed was first fint published in January 1870 Its publishers warn William S an andi andiE I IB B E E L T Harrison and it occupied a l building build In on West First South street next door to furniture store It was as and oon con conservative established c In the interest of ot the reform movement It latest later passed to the tho and b be became became came the Salt Lake Tribune Another periodical of or this was the Review and edited by Frank Kenyon Others which do not come In the scope of this article are still sun In existence the Womans Exponent and the tho Juven Juvenile ile Instructor In August 1882 Joseph Lipp started the tho Salt Lake Evening Chron lole Iole which lasted about bout a year It was a sheet the first Gentle Gentie e evening paper in tho the valley It unsure unsuccessfully oes rUu supported su p the candidacy of ot VanZile United States stat l district attorney ney fey for tor congressman It was waa the tho lat lase l Salt Lake paper to receive the AWK elated Press Pr franchise and thi this ir wU later sold successively to the Dent Dem crat the tho Times and the tho Telegram The Salt Lake Democrat also ato II dally daily dall was started as A operative concern con rn the printers an editors being stockholders It wo w wart first Issued ll in and continued itaf i publication as a an art evening paper ton tori fo Continued on OD I Page tr Six Survival of the th fittest st in iti tb history of journalism in iti the tte ti City of Salt Sail Cake aHe ak rIJt i i S Sj Sr j j r r S 4 c t z s I 1 n C CI T T TI Tc I C c I 4 3 I 1 1 i a 4 c t i j a aF F S S SS S S S SIS e t BUILDING OCCUPIED BY THE MORMON TRIBUNE IN 1870 In Tn West First South Street Next to Furniture Store The Building in the Extreme Extremo Left of the Picture is Still Standing r I I I I S t r e t tt tP t I P 4 5 S I S T I II Ii I i I II I I Ij II II II 5 C I S S r j V I I vv vvS I I I t 1 S S I I I I I S JOHN JORN T CAINE One of the Original Owners of the tile Salt Lake Herald Continued from Page Inge One I about two years when Its paydays be became became became came loss 1059 frequent and It Il sought re repose pose poe po e In tho the journalistic graveyard Prominently connected with this pa paper paper paper per was John fohn W Piko Pike who says 8 8 that the Democrat was wa first ft t located on the north side of or East First South street between Main and State streets street and later latr moved to the present site of or the tho Eagle block Succeeding the Democrat D after atter an Interval of or some years the Salt Lake Times was established hed by C Ann Nichols Ichols who ran the publication as 88 a n weekly week for some somo time afterward he I I sold the tho property to 10 B n BClark Clark Wheeler heeler of or Aspen Colo Cob who enlarged the plant with machinery and amI published it as 55 an evening dally daily dnn It died at length for want of or patronage Perry Heath bought the Associated Press Pr franchise which h was in disuse for tor a time afterward being taken over overby overby by tho the Evening Telegram An Official Organ n I June Julie 6 1581 the Salt Lake Journal of or Commerce was the official j i jorgan organ of or the Chamber of or Commerce was as established by b H L A Culmer It had a wide circulation and was f 8 do de voted to tho the manufacturing and und mer mercantile cantile canUlo interests of or the city In this small magazine Mr Culmer wrote the J first mining notes noles published In the valley valle in which may be seen Men the in of or the present pre ent mining pages paget of ot the groat grout dallies dailies of the city In this connection It IB is interacting to know that Joseph Joeph E IS Caine Callie secretary of oC the tho Commercial club had the first society column in the tho city on the tho Salt Lake Herald It was a venture that aroused much comment and some lome mirth but it took well from the start and nd was shortly imitated by other pa papers pap pens pers p rs In tho the early tOs James B Bloor floor published a n weekly Journal which was I independent pond nl Republican in politics politico I I and devoted to commercial interests I The Tho Argus is Js remembered as a strong paper with man and admit admirers ers It Inter later merged Into Truth Mr Bloor is III now living In Los Angeles One of ot the brightest periodicals of ot this city was the tho Salt Lake kc Foam edited by b John Rogers since deceased and Elmer Ellsworth now residing in inthe Inthe inthe the east It began publication Uon in 1891 but lasted only a short hort time Another with on an exceedingly short ca career career career reer was a small aman sheet edited by b R It W V Sloan Truth a weekly week publication which sold out to tho the Western Monthly In 1908 was started by b John Hughes In 1902 Living Issues ISU l ably edited by Warren Foster had considerable ble vogue during the tho editors lifetime In the the and the were organs of or the tho negro population of o the city They The were rival political sheets she ls and the tho Plain dealer won considerable fame tame for se seriously seriously demanding or of the Republican state committee that It be b recognized as the om organ of if the th party parl This was in 1896 when the Tribune Trl uno was supporting Brjan One Ont of the brightest t monthlies that ever thrived here was wan the Four Hun Hundred dred drea established in August 1115 by b Joseph An original cover I design by a young oung cartoonist named amed I Nicholson was a feature The editorial staff state Included In Tod Goodwin G and Ken Kenneth I Kenneth en enneth neth Kerr and other local writers contributed good work to the thc maga map magazine magazino zine zino It lasted about one year ear earThe The Spectator a critical weekly was WM started by Kenneth Kennelh Kerr in 1898 and lasted a year ear All AU the writers write for forI this paper papE r wore were well wen known local pew pee people I pie pic not connected with the pre pr 5 a I IL IS L f c e t I I p S S S S S 5 S S I JO IS I AI of the ie Commercial and niI former man mho lio bo tile fIrt local column In The Snit Salt I Luke Lake M Mi Caroline Carolina Emma Emilia Jacobs the tho who died recently wrote under the pen name of Emilia Emilis Elliott Kate Katt Thomas had charge of oC a s special column devoted to current events ev George W Heintz was dramatic critic and Bd Cohn Conn and lUiU Mrs Mra Looter Lester L Freed were contributors The Tb most moot recent r cent magazine to PUs sus suspend pend pond was WM the Salt Lake Outlook be begun begun begun gun In 1 IS 8 by the company It had several veral issues IuM run running running ning sing for about one ene year ear The forty periodicals now issued in S Salt U Lake Lako give promise of or greater permanency than some of ot these theM predecessors |