Show JOUfuMJSM J I 1N UTAH i I Many Ventures In I The Field but Few Prove 5ucco sful Prorrrierit Papers and Their History t 0 HP NUMBER ofpubh cations of various kinds Ii that have been estab l r 9 lishcd in Utah first and last is truly surprising About two years ago a computation was made of the number that had been started in Salt Lake City md the estimate of over three hundred was arrived at This was an average of more than sir each year since the first settlement ol the State or one for every sixty days A gentleman I now engaged in journalism in Ogden recently made a statement to the writer that there had been cstab lishcd in that city since its first settlement set-tlement no less than forty different publications Of this number less than a half down hate survived and some of those tint still exist hive avery a-very frail appearance The town of Beaver has shown considerable journalistic energy As early as the spring of 1871 the Enterprise began publication there as i daily It was published as such for about three months only when it became a triweekly After a feeble and flickering existance of I some three years disappeared from view but in iSbo was resurrected and lived about one rear since which time it has not been heard of There have been started in Beaver several other I papers but none survived sur-vived the period fs infancy except the Utopian which was established in 1877 and continued until 1895 when it was removed to Provo Logan has been more cautious in the way of journalistic ventures The I first publication 1 of any kind started in that to is T nondc script I amateur 1cet I lallel I the Northern t f Light ti which only a few I numbers were issued tins was in 187S or cart in lS7g In Scptem her I Si9 was began the publication of the Logan I Leader I a wcckl I which continued until iSS when it was merged into the Journal which is still published in that city About II the year 1893 the Logan I Nation was established and is i still being published I pub-lished under that name though for a time it went under the name of the Logan Republican O journalism in Salt Lake City an interesting volume might be written In its history hive been exemplified partisan 1 feeling relit i ious intolerance and political rankor of an extreme character It his seemed difficult a great portion of the time for a public journal to refrain re-frain from exceeding the bonds of conservatism Prom 1870 to 1890 the people of the Territory were divided i t on local 1 and political i r issues i which engendered animosities of a pronounced character but happily for the commonwealth this feeling of opposition Was rapidly obliterated immediately after the adoption by the Mormon Church in October 1890 of the resolution abolishing plural marriage Ever since the rear 1891 the entire press in the State has been remarkably united inuring in-uring and fostering the best interests of the State regardless of political parties although at times political feeling has run very high and found vehement expression in the columns of some of the political journals The number of small papers that hive been established in various puts of the State within the lost ten years is remarkably large Many of these puhlicationi have had too I little support to enable them to stir vine more than a few months but many heal have shown a good Ideal I-deal ol vitality and energy and give promISe of a long life I The most interesting feature in the history of journalism m this I State hive occurred in this city During the rears from 1850 to iSGt the OESfRET Nrvvs was the only publication that survived for any length of time Among the lew others that were begun during that period was the Mountaineer which was edited by jaw cs Ferguson I but it lived onlv a iriirtno lu Igmg from sample t copies it was a sheet of a good ecil of ability lor those days = > 41 1 s ELIAS SMITH and merited a longer lease of life I than was given it In Octobcr iS6i a telegraph line w is completed across the continent as IU I as Salt Lake city About year liter the Daily Telegraph w I established in this city by T II I Stenhousc The paper displayed great deal of energy and ability bin I it survived only a few years In 1863 the officers and enlisted men of the California Volunteers I located at Camp Douglass began the icy of crroitionloPrcdtt 1 F Hm Young men meata t which was clout that 1 lame tte brgi iijuratcd Is led Further to the developments excommunication In tht l owners and editors ol that ma who had nt length a unuP nounccd attitude of ho > > itty i It the of the policy Church Int I a number ol the men oho had connected with the iiuga2r preparations I to publ lifie t rep f gio political i 1 jounj iL 4 number of which was I sued a1 1 > 1 nary 1870 under the name to Mormon Tribune The pubca w 2 the Utah Magazine hid bC1Q nendedand this pended weekly papa > its successor The Mormon Tribune becaceu organ of a religious and 1 p IJ party which consisted manlyolj I ceders from the Mormon Chr and went under the name of toN ites William S Codk ben R leading figure m it D J he rear 1870 this party ratted to itself pohtwal1y tf ire non Mormon population t v i Territory 1 and adopted I the nor I die Liberal I part Sonn alter its organ the Mormon fr bjr gas to appear as a d ulv and h name changed to the Salt I ake T bune The best editorial md t gg 1 p 1 waq r f h 11 l 1 1 I 111 1 t 11 a 1 C L SLOAN = publication of the Union Vedette a I I weekly which adopted a policy strongly anti Iormon but the paper continued only a rear or two In 1867 or thereabouts was begun the publication of the Utah Mig ime which was it first a strictly literary monthly but it soon adopted a pol nes talent available was eon I e-on this piper I For I many yeas leading feature of i sm I ol cy W + titonism to the Mormon Off and people but during Ua3 of 1s I his out I its chief fame grown and cllcctivencss with 1 chiT defended the cause of tree slier On June 5th 1870 appeared first number of the bait I ikeHts a lively energetic and sigoroa6 I established I paper Inch was est the time the Liberal I part had ed 1 a strong and permanent orp tion Its promoters evidently Wed t ed that it should oppose party and t its i policy cl1 I hPf P f ably the leading mot r nitst I hshnlent W C PunbiranJ L Sloan comprised the firm f L the established the Herald l being ed tor in clnct Mr S and r win an able vigorous Hw ritter and gave the character and policy tint noafr < ort from we a generous support politics coons md it defended conservative the Uenitlet cause d People or Mormon party great Since div = on cit c vigor post it has been a strong oran At the present tl1e the tr t in ths c nel > published newspapers therer cover the field very tbo leaving absolutely no room 1 fourth In fact in then size + I amount of money expnd d ens 1 of tare < columns the newspapers are entirely oat of propnit oI 0 tf the population and none IS aa arc profitable proving r meat It is a fact frequently mented upon that Silt lake t ti 9 9 has as good new spal found in any city in th L nit having double its population |