Show 4 u a A t Pioneer loneer Pressman ressman o of Utah Pas Passes Away I Geor George e Hales Hale Who Printed the First Ft Copies Copi of the Deseret News New i. i uThe u The La Last Lt t of Those Thoe Connected With Oth Other Fields Fild Of Labor Lalor The Papers Paper s Founding to P Pass to r 1 1 I RV S f. f ff f l A- A 1 To Pf t T y Io i I f. f t I t 0 J 1 t i. i I. I 1 i t f O. O t J tb i I. I i r. r j t 1 r f. f 4 Y l t I fj I u. u I I t. t r I f i l f. f j. j i. i A p V r. r 1 1 S 'S St 1 1 t K f t. t i t K 1 j of 1 X K i r THE HE LATE GEORG GEORGE H HALES L S' S OF F B BEAVER V tw Who lIu Acted n as Pressman PI mUIl When the Fiat I. I b uc Is-uc ur m of nr the till J Ic rt cret X ys X'S S 'S Was as Ui Published Pub Pub- lIld lI June YUill 1 11 in ISiO f a Nears s dispatches from Beaver Boa published pub pub- published this week weck contain a a. brief brier notice of the thc death In that town of or Geor George e t Hales Tn To the D News the Item J has a peculiar Interest for when this paper per first t came forth from rom the printIng print print- tt Ing InS press It was avas the thC strong trong right arm 0 of George Hales that operated the little Iron plant brought across the plains In wagons us bI r and the News were Inseparable Inseparable arable amble during durIn the first decade of or Its existence and one of or the things thinS's to be regretted is that he did not leave e a Ll volume olum of s reciting his ills ex experiences ex- ex rr as ns a pressman and printer I eX-I first In NauVoo then in Salt Lake on ons' ons s' s sJ J the News Xe then In Fillmore again on the News when It was wag a 11 question each da day whether another Issue would be printed before the Federal arm army might t arrive to put a stop to It and then once more In Salt Lake after the t. t News was Wl s established In the old Council CouncH house DRIFTED SOUTH t k Mr fr Hales did not r remain maln with th the paper papel long after that He drifted south and other papers came to know him himas himas as ns pressman and printer so that his connection with the News except for tor fora f a short time about 1878 1518 Is confined to lo that Interesting first t decade ec a d c i In n which tho played so Important a part partIn In In founding tho the nely new ne t J com com- r 9 t HOW How Ho the plant got Jot to Utah iV-as iV i Is' Is as i. i in- in n- n V an Item as 38 how how the pioneers came and Sir Mr Hales was Intimately connected with handling this plant when It first arrived and with setting It up for tor the first Issue which was run runoff runoff off oat on June Juno 15 15 1850 HISTORY OF NEWS PLANT The history of ot the News plant begins begins be be- gins gln In 1816 1546 and It Is one ono of oC those chapterS chapters chap chap- tern which shows the foresight with which Brigham Young Toung planned this western movement Knowing his In inT In- In T 7 to establish his people here he planned to lo have a n paper Japer published among mong them on their arrival and he ol ordered ered W W. W Phelps In the winter of oC 1846 1546 and to go from Winter Quarters Quarters Quarters to Philadelphia and to return with such Ruch a printing outfit as he ho thought would serve sene the purpose of getting out outa a small news flews bulletin ln In n the we western tern valleys a where the Church planned to togO togo togo go next nest spring I Tho printing press s arrived In Winter inter Quarters before spring and was packed hacked away y among the pioneer wagons wagon when the they began hegan their westward journey at atthe atthe atthe the breaking of winter Intel The press preas was a Ji small wrought Iron affair known as a Ramage press hand and the quantity of or typo which ac accompanied ae- ae companied It was aas very small In the thel l spring of 1550 tho first move was made to putting it Into commission I IN S SMALL fALI ADOBE BUILDING B By that time tune a 0 small building ha had been erected on South Temple street just east of ot Main and here was o the papers paper's fir first t home Tho The press was set up here In the spring of oC 1850 1550 and anden anden en cn June 15 the first issue came forth It was a small page eight-page affair each page measuring three columns By present day people the thc welcome this paper received cd can hardly be Imagined Salt Lake was Isolated not by miles but lut by months and In winter b by a whole season OI When hen George Hales finished operating the hand press th the people began to receive a little paper paver j which should carry carr Items of or Interest to them In ua their isolation distribute news new that could could be of the outer world and nd whatever happened hap hap- h here re pf of pressing Interest Associated As As- with Mr 1 hales In this were Horace K Ii Whitney who 10 sot set et the typo type an and Brigham II H Young who superintended superintended tended the press work BABBITT PRESS IN IS 1852 After that the thc papers paper's history was wa continuous In 1852 1352 n a larger hugel press arrived arrived ar ar- rived and the same year car Almon W. W Babbitt brought a a. complete printing plant here which he sold to the Deseret Deseret Deseret Des Des- eret News and which made Its outfit somewhat elaborate with three presses and a large supply of ot type ESTABLISHED A AT FILL FILLMORE In the News removed remo to the third story of the old News ns c building on the northeast corner of Main and anet South Temple streets Two years later It U went vent to the Council house Geo hales going with Ith It In each move In another move was necessary early In Inthe Inthe Inthe the spring and when tho the plant was wa es established e- e at Fillmore Mr fr Hales was with whit It again These were precarious times for 01 Johnstons Johnston's army watt was approaching approaching approaching ap ap- with plans OR of which no one knew the exact character The plant was divided part being In one southern south south- ern rn town and part In another so o that Its location might better Metter be kept a se secret se- se c- c cret The Tho News wa was I Issued alternately alternately alter alter- from from- the two townsand towns to and distributed dill dis wherever cr there were settlers In 1563 the paper settled down to a no nolon lon long period of or activity In the tho old News building but with this period o of development Mr 11 Hales Halos was wag connected connect connect- ed d only onh for tor a n. short period In the latter seventies as above stated He Is the thelast thelast last of ot those connected with the papers paper's founding to pas pap pass s to other fields field of labor |