Show VOLUME EIGHTEEN GI DESERET NEWS today to day the first number of of tide deseret DE seret gERET NEWS WEEKLY is issued for nearly nineteen years yeara it has hits continued linued to advocate the causa cause of truth and right first issued in june 10 1850 it was the pioneer paper of this thia western country and continues to hold the first position through circulation and influence we are not inelly inclined led to make many promises trustin trusting to the future for ability to perform them we prefer waiting until we can present the improvements prove ments menta designed and let our subscribers bers enjoy the benefit instead of having to wait for an uncertainty the tho coming volume of the deseret NEWS WEEKLY is 13 therefore issued with an increase of sixteen columns of reading matter which we have no doubt our subscribers will appreciate fully as muchas muchal much ils its if the fact had been announced some months beforehand and we had ha d taken pains to excite expectation concerning it our desire is to keep the NEWS in every respect a reliable first class family and commercial paper no pains are spared to secure the latest news that can bei bel depended upon but we do not almat creating publishing as fabas i things which never occurred in a few words our design is and has been to present to our subscribers a live but in every respect reliable newspaper since gince the issue of the first number of DESERET the NEWS what changes have taken place to look back there seems seema to beane hi his tory story of an age to be considered events have traveled so rapidly then teen n communication with the rast east anit anil west was so tedious and uncertain that it was deemed necessary to announce iii in the columns of the NEWS tiie tile e expected X cad departure of a mail wp weeks a abea aso abo p 0 that everybody might kno know w when and how to commini communicate cate emte with wilh in the outside world tieh when the president of the united states appointed a day of thanksgiving for the republic in november it was not thi till the january following that governor young could issue his proclamation for its observance obber vance vanee mail communication wad was so uncertain as well as slow that the arnival arrival of a mailA malla event the people not alot being exercised if it came in wewt after being duo due as indeed it was dimmic dimmie difficult i litto ietto to say when it ibb was due th then en the pacific railroad was advocated only by fhe inhabitants of this valley who several times memorialized Congre congress aa coneg concerning ining it and ana by a few who were somewhat in advancer advance of their times now we can see tee that great work rapidly nearing a completion comple compie tion tiou which was then seemingly a dream ot of enthusiasts now the telegraphic wire gives irs us almost tike tile news of a world before bufore the sun sets on the occurrences which it reports our oar merchants pass rass to the thel eastern bounds of the ardd arid stand on the shores of the at antic in ageel a journey jounney which used to consume sume 0 a zi third of a year and the condition ol 01 the world has changed proportionately tiona tlona tely tel tei we too are no longer isolated tk we are ard on the highway of nations the orient and the occident will soon pass through our territory the nations nat hat ions lons of both hemispheres will direct their travel I 1 and their commerce over the national road which we have assisted to construct As the NEWS is the pioneer and leading paper of the territory and indeed of the rocky bocky mountain region we intend that it shall keep pace with these advances its present increased size is a testimony that our continued efforts will be directed to wards this object and that it may make its regular visits to the thousands thou thoua ands anda of homes where it is to be found an ever welcomed and acceptable sheet the arat number of volume IV of the DEsE deseret reu net PET NEWS semiweekly SEMI WEEKLY was also issued yesterday the dinst itis its from the first has been most encouraging ifs is circulation has increased of late beyond our most sanguine expectations we hopeton continue to make it all that our subscribers desire the patrons of the NEWS evening semiweekly semi weekly and andr weekly pany be assured thit that bur labors will je pe directed to in making aking them worthy of the position they occupy as the leading leiding papers of the territory I 1 |