Show Many changes occurred In the newspaper field In Utah in the year 1870 It was in the spring of that year that Edward L. L Sloan and William Wil Wil- liam C. C Dunbar purchased the type and press of the Telegraph which had md died in Ogden and removed the plant to io Salt Lake City On Sunday Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day June 5 1870 the first number of or the Salt Lake Herald appeared It was was was' wasa a daily paper with Mr Sloan as editor and Mr Dunbar as business business business busi busi- ness manager and shortly afterwards afterwards afterwards after after- wards a third Interest was sold to John T T. Caine who became the them m managing editor and general assist assist- ant At that time the News had the field entirely to Itself Itsel and the need of another paper was apparent ent IThe i iThe The Herald was at the start a six six- column folio which was enlarged to seven seven columns and then to eight and at one time it reached In size nine columns but this was an un- un size to to handle and it dropped back to an eight column paper about the he size of the papers of toda today The Then n Herald was started at a time that was propitious for it was In 1870 that the Prussian Franco-Prussian war var ar broke out ut a and add id in view of so many foreigners foreigners foreigners for for- eigners here at that time there was an unusual demand for news from the old countr country and this this' aided the Herald EDITORIAL CHANGES Editor Sloan died on August 2 1874 1814 and after his death came carrie E. E N N. N Fuller Byron Groo B. B H H. H Roberts William Hyde and Charles W. W Pen- Pen I rose Just one month after the death of Mr Sloan on September 2 I 1874 the Herald began the issue or of ofa ora ora a weekly semi-weekly edition and then In March of 1880 the first weekly edition edt edl- tion ion was issued On Janu January ry 1 1886 the Herald was incorporated with a capital of and the Herald Her ITer- lId aId building on the northwest corner cor cor corner ner ncr of or West Temple and First South streets was erected In 1892 a controlling interest Inthe Inthe in inthe the the Herald was sold to a syndicate of Democrats vho ho desired an organ carrying one fifty-one one hundredths of the stock R. R C C. Chambers be became became became be- be came president Colonel William Hyde who for a number of years had lad been connected with the editorial editorial edi edi- tonal staff of the old St. St Louis RepUblican Republican Re Re- publican became editor in chief with Byron Groo and Charles W. W Penrose as as associated editors Up to that time the Herald did not Is Issue Is- Is su sue suc any Sunda Sunday paper but und under r the he new ne deal a a. Sunday paper was Issued Later on the paper again I pass passed d to the control of or the Latter- Latter day Saints with Charles W Penrose Penrose Penrose Pen- Pen rose as Its editor in chief This continued until the campaign in 1896 when William Balderston former former for for- mer editor of or the Boise Ida Statesman Statesman Statesman States States- man w was s its editor CONTROL AGAIN CHANGES S About 1898 control of the P paper again passed this time ime to A. A W. W McCune mining magnate becomIng becoming becom- becom Ing ng president of the company He had lad an ambition to b become come United States senator and It was expected expect expect- ed that in view of a a. Democratic legi legislature lature he might succeed The con contest est was a bitter one in the legIslature leg lel- of or 1899 At one time Mr Ir McCune was within on one vote of beIng being beng be- be Ing ng elected and when the assembly assembly assembly assem assem assem- bly adjourned without date on the of March 1899 ballots had been taken the last one Just before adjournment at midnight when McCune had twenty-five twenty the number number number num num- ber ber of votes necessary to a choice being thirty Shortly after that McCune retired ed from rom the Herald and U United States Senator W. W A. A Clark of Montana 1 purchased ed the paper Meanwhile the Mountain Inter Republican entered the field as a morning paper and later the Herald was vas purchased by that piper paper paper and consolidation followed the name of the corporation being changed to the Republican Herald-Republican Publishing company Lat Later r on the Herald pas passed ed to the control control of of The Telegram Telegram Telegram Tele Tele- gram then back to Its original owners and finally in 1919 Its franI franchise fran fran- chise ir In the press associations association as also its plant passed to The Tel Tele Telegram I gram Publishing comp company n and the publication of the Herald ceased |