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Show A YEAR PAST. In commencing the F.ccond volume of the Halt Lake IMij.v Herald, We havo much reason to be n&thti&l with tho tffurts of the year pa.it, in our Journalintic career. When tho Hek-AI.D Hek-AI.D wtw commenced even it.-4 fricndi liiwi littly faith in ita living; it.s projectors projec-tors alone.aeemeJ to bco a prominent future for it. The fact is, there wa do money stirring. Everybody &ii I dull; andwhen the newly started II KR-1 ALD prophesied continued existence, 1 how many thought and doubted'.' et wo invito attention to tho lila ol tho firsi two months during which tlii.i paper waa issued, to mo if each prediction pre-diction with regard to future business has not been verified. Tho Hkrald was very small a year ago, and even the proprietors had a delicacy in inviting subscriptions. But it grew insizo. Determined enterprise accomplishes wonders. We had no fight with any contemporary. We held, and hold, that there is room nough here for all the papers in existence; exis-tence; bnt we proposed to offer a new yonturo a paper purely secular, com mercial and independent. J be huc-j cess of tho paper tolls tho result. Its iso ihows how it bus grown, and the' columns of tho paper to day speak for IhernHolvoa. No effort has been nc-gleoted nc-gleoted nor expense spared, by the proprietors to give the paper a leading character and metropolitan cist. Kali Lake City is a metropolis, notalono of ft Territory, bnt -of a vast interior region. It 'must bo the peer of St. Louia, (.'bicftgo' and San Francisco. Tho.io uncontrollable features of destiny which mark the lineaments of our city tell us this. Wo will have small towns springing up around, but they must have a centre, and hero it And horo, too, grows tho press of the great Interior. In accepting the position of the leading lead-ing secular and commercial paper from Omaha to Sacramento wc might excite feeling anions older and equally porma-nout porma-nout journals; yet, we tliinp, in one year tho IIekaj.d has grown to bo without a successful rival, in this region, re-gion, and its subscription list will bear out tho fact. Please pardon our seeming seem-ing boasting once in a twelve month; but to-day an examination of our sub-1 Kription books proves that the Heuai.d Daily nhd Homi-Wcckly circulates in' every Territory and in twenty-seven ytateB of tho Union; while many countries in Europe idso appear upon the list. Is not that a gratil'yiug record in a year? And what is tho secret? We haro given our countrymen, and all others, a olear-spokou, ; fair-minded, honest, and independent journuL We havo no promises to mako for the future. Tho policy of the IIcraU) is to perform not ; promise that is Mill the controlling idea. .Watch it, and sco if tho action is not manifested without the promise. - Wo kindly Oik. our patrons, Aro .you satisfied? As most commenced with a three months' subscription and kept renewing, we think you havo givon ovidenco that you are, and we commenco another year with feelings of mutual respect. |