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Show TEN YEARS OLD. -Wi.h this Tasua Tho. Record -lie gins its eleventh year. It has been in the hands of its present publisher for eight or ten years of its existence, exist-ence, and he has passed through all the stages from sweeping the office, and spreading the ink, to sole proprietor, pro-prietor, in its service. He has also grown from youth to manhood during dur-ing the process. It is possible that ;if he was within reach of us, and I isaw this bit of personalty before it goes into print he would not allow it Itomeet the eyesol our readers, but pe is where he cannot interfere. U'he editor feels to congratulate the publisher on the improved character charac-ter of the Record since a year ago. The old army press with its concom itants, limited space and poor impressions has "passed." In itsplace we have a press capable of supplying the needs of this part of the state for years to come And the little gasoline gas-oline giant that propels it does the wdrk with an ease and willingness that is rest itself to the tired compositors com-positors and editor, who have been accostomed to grind out the weekly grist at the rate of a hundred copies per hour. Since the Record came, into existence the world has become aware to some extent of the treasures trea-sures of Iron County, and a little of the prosperity that many of the people peo-ple in the county have looked forward for-ward for has come about; but the reality has not anywhere near equaled equal-ed the cxpetations of people who ten years ago talked of the great prosperity pros-perity is store for this county "In the near future" Our experience in this respect is however no exception to the rule It is not often that the good time comes as soon as it expected by those who are waiting for it, and it frequently fails to be as good as they expected when it does come. The effort that is being made to give our county as good as a weekly paper as the average aver-age of the country weeklies in the state, is not being met with as np-peciative np-peciative a reception at the hands of our citizens as we think is its due, however. Some of our merchants realize the benefit of having a newspaper news-paper in the county and help us with their patronage, but others seem to feel thaj the paper is no special use and give us no encouragement encour-agement beyond tne price of their subscription. )ur subscription list is also not whatil ought to be; many of the citizens seeming to feel that in supporflii the home paper they are simptjr giving something away. If it wqre not for the revenue derived from' outside sources it would be impossible to publish a paper pa-per such as ihcRixoitD in thiscoun-ty thiscoun-ty at anything but a loss. If we do not rccieve better support. than we are doing tlikesenit is not at alUu'nl.)rxtlylMiini'y compelled compell-ed to eft her '"oe the plant to a more fertile field, or accept some of the propositions that we occasionally jrecieve for its plirchase. We shall 'take off our subscription this week list 50 subscribef's;who havcevidenlly become tired of6ur paper or are too poor to continue to take it. We have not enough ikjiv subscribers to fill the vacancy. This is not an entour-ageing entour-ageing state of health for a birthday occasion, but it is possible the Record Re-cord will outgrow it. Let us hope so at least. And now for Number i, Vol.11. |