Show M H M M M t M M 1 M M M M I M ti i JUST THREE WEEKS OLD t tt t M t HMM M M HH M M I M I I M t t M t t 0 Mt t With ith its present issue The Salt Lake Telegram Three wee weeks s. s ian is i isan isan begins legins it its fourth week of existence an early age at which to become but we live in rapid times This This baby has bas been able to o sit up Ill and take notice from the moment of its birth and aud is now comparatively mature Looking backward backward back back- the of time that separates us ward then over ever gulf from oni the tIle thirtieth day of January last past when we pr our ouI first issue to the Salt Lake City filled with pleasure and and Utah public we are satisfaction in that we wc are able to say we have vet Jet et to hear the tho first unkind word regarding our enterprise enterprise enterprise enter enter- advertisers advertisers adver adver- contemporaries neighbors prise from front qUI our cur readers leaders or 01 from any an human unit of our present pres pre That The Telegram cut ent or 01 possible constituency has prospered an and is prospering is a a. commonplace Possibly it is due to our of Salt Lake Lal e City gossip friends and patrons to tell them or at least it may maj maybe maje maybe be e desirable that they should know just what the Utah has progress of the new independent paper been so far A general statement that The Telegram after but three thre weeks of existence has reached a bonn bona fid fide circulation of three thousand copies dail daily is calculated to brin bring a a. smile and call forth expressions expressions of the utmost incredulity Such success is almost unprecedented in the history of latter day journalism and certainly could not be repeated in ill any other city of the same size in the United States Stites Nor is the credit by bj any means wholly due dime to the wisdom and energy and experience of the editorial and business management Rather it must be he charged to the tIme golden opportunity and to th the spirit of or ottlie the people of this city Utah and the neighboring States which were waiting to welcome an evening newspaper popular of price and up-to-date up pattern It only Such a a- newspaper new paper was as a teal ical desideratum required a plain square proposition from the party of the first firs part The part The Salt Lake Lal Telegram Publishing Publishing Publishing Publish Publish- ing Co to to the time Reading Pu Public lic of the capital city of Utah Utah the the party of the thc second part part to to find aready a aready a lead ready acceptance As to the details of our circulation Omitting the first few days when the very eT large output of the distribution was as necessarily gratis to a large number of r readers aders the sales began to steady at the th end of the first week and the free list was rigidly r abridged Circulation including copies for fOI office oUke use commencing with the first da day of the thes the's s second week has bas been running thus Copies Copies 6 Copies 2 2950 February 13 February February 7 2950 2930 February 14 15 February g 10 It 8 2000 February February 17 February 11 2875 February 18 February February 12 2925 February 19 On three of the above days th the run was short of the requirements of the readers and street sales had to be bc stopped before 5 On one other day the order to the press room was too large and a hundred bundred or more papers remained unsold On theother the the- theother theother other hand there has been a constant demand forback for forback forback back numbers necessitating the repurchase of copies copies copis cop cop- ies is of certain dates from individuals The rapidity with which the reading leading public of Salt Lake City has taken each succeeding issue of The Phie Telegram as fast as the same could be turned out by the press is something for which we wc are entitled entitled entitled en en- titled to congratulate ourselves and for which we desire desire- to to- the community Now we are me in a a. position to extend our service and alread already have bave accomplished something in that direction Although Although Althou Al Al- thou though h we we have pushed circulation in less than half hall halla halfa a a. dozen neighboring towns today we have a large lare mail mailand and agents' agents list in Utah Nevada and Idaho a afew afew few in Wyoming T oming and scattered lists in Colorado Montana Minnesota South Dakota Missouri Iowa Indiana Illinois Illino s Ohio Kentucky ky Tennessee the tile District of Columbia Maryland and New Yo York k We Wc also exchange with the leading leading- newspapers 1 rs' rs of ol America After Aftel the familiar familial presentation of the thc foregoing foregoing foregoing fore fore- going tp what we ve may call our family circle we wo JI hove have ve no n sort of idea that anyone within it t or outside outside outside out out- side for that matter will be incredulous concerning ill the ll phenomenal progress phenomenal progress of The Telegram Tin The late Charles A A. A Dana editor of the New York Sun was wont to say that the man who is obliged to make oath to every statement he be utters m must st have havea ve a Ye very sorry reputation for for truth and vera vera- city r The Telegram TeI ram took its Us place in a field fi ld which vh ch its ifs founders believed to be bc theretofore wholly uno cu pied pic pies us Its Its- success ss demonstrates tes the thc correctness s o of their judgment in forming that conclusion and in assuming that the public desired the field to be filled |