Show fL Queer names were given newspapers newspapers news- news papers apers in Utah In the early arly days or For Instance over In the Uinta basin basin that great empire in Utah the ie first newspaper was founded by bya a woman and it is still in existence and nd ranks ranks ranks' at the top with other country newspapers in the state The paper had a unique name The Uinta Papoose Ja Kate e Jean Bowen vas Its owner and editor and she established the paper in Vernal At tha that hat t time Vernal was almost two hundred miles from a railroad and supplies in the wit way of paper were difficult to obtain but Mrs Bowen overcame many difficulties and ancl she made lade the paper stick and every white family in iii the basin was a subscriber the basin a at that time being eing sparsely settled After Arter conducting the paper for a 1 couple of years eais Mrs Mu Bowen owen sold the he tie plant to Jam James s M r. B Barker of or Buffalo N N. N Y Barker came caine t to the basin asin as a missionary to th the Indians Indians In- In lans and he wanted santed a paper paper- o of his lis own hence heras his purchase of the Papoose Barker was I a a bachelor and nd he was constantly jibed regardIng regarding regard- regard Ing ng the name of or his paper so he fInaly changed it to to the Vernal Express HILLMAN ILLMAN BUYS DUY PLANT Shortly after the change In name was vas made D. D 11 II fl Hillman present apiarist for the the state purchased the pant nt and anti for fifteen years he lie conducted con con- ducted the paper when he disposed 01 ot H It 10 tO James II n. Walis WaIs who now Is in control df 61 the paper Another queer name given n a publication pub- pub In the territory W was s that of leep a Keep a which was established in Jn Salt Lake in 1869 1169 and anel which was was published b but bit t a short hort hile Then down in St. St George Georg the Dixieland o of Utah was was the he St. St George Cactus which appeared ap appeared ap- ap p- p in 1862 and ran for a fe few months when it was suspended In the latter TOs Os at Silver Reef was the Echo and Miner 1 both of which ran during the time of the boom at it Sliver Silver Reef when thousands of dollars in white m metal tal was being taken aken out from the sandstone reef reel daily One of the two papers was under the management of Charley Johnson afterwards well known knot photographer of Salt Lake City The rhe printing plant was destroyed b by y fire but before belore tie the ashes were cold Johnson was on the wa way to secure a new outfit Silver Reef at that time had a population of around ten thousand It might alight be said here that Silver Reef was the themly only place where silver was found In n sandstone but before the camp quit as a producer m more re than twelve million dollars in white metal had been taken from the reef Among the other earlier newspapers newspapers news news- papers established In Utah back in inthe inthe inthe the lOs and was the Wasatch satch Vave Wave established in 1889 at Heber the he Logan Journal originally the Logan Leader established in 1879 the Park City Record established in n 1880 the Provo Herald established stab stab- in and the Richfield Reaper Reaper-i established in 1887 After Ater Utah was was was' admitted to statehood the number of papers multiplied raJ rapidly Of the papers now running in the state there are five that are printed in towns miles from a railroad the Myton 1 ton Free Press the Duchesne Duehesne Record the Vernal Ex Express J EX-J press the St St. George News and the theSa Sa San Sar Juan Re Record ord All of these papers papers papers pa pa- pers with the tile exception of one have linotypes and modern presses and plants and they rank up with pa papers pa- pa a pers lerS all over the country |