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Show I First Issue Copy 01 Deseret News Presented to CSU A copy of the first issue of the Deseret News has been presented to College of Southern South-ern Utah by Mrs. Florence S. Higbee, Cedar City, and her sister, Mrs. J. Hayes, of Salt Lake City. The newspaper has boon in Mrs. Hayes' possession for a number of years. It was originally orig-inally the property of Phinoas Richards, father of Mrs. Hayes and Mrs. Higbee. Mr. Richards was a brothor of Willard Richards, Rich-ards, first editor and publisher pub-lisher of the Deseret News. 1859 Edition The newspaper was printed on June 15, 1859 and featured on its iront page a statement of tlto editorial philosophy, an account of activity in the United States Senate, and a story of the San Francisco fire of Dec. 21, 18-19. Inside contents included a message from President Zach-arias Zach-arias Taylor to the House of representatives on the State of the Union. This was quoted from the Jan. 21, 1850 issue of the New York Tribune. Other Oth-er news covered the death of Oliver Cowdery and the recounting re-counting of a riivam of John C. Canhoun in connection with his signing, of the Declaration Dec-laration of Dissolution. The early Deseret News was published weekly and distributed dis-tributed to some 300 subscribers. subscrib-ers. Terms of payment stated that $2.50 was to be paid 'for each six month subscription, "invariably in advance." Single Sin-gle copies were 15 cents, with travelers and emigrants paying pay-ing 25 cents a copy. This included in-cluded the "insertion of their names, place of residence, time or arrival and leaving." Companies of 20 and upwards were "entered at once" for 20 cents each. Advertising sold for "1.50 per square lines, and 1 50 each succeeding insertion. $1.00 for half square, or eight lines." Single Sheet The newspaper was one large sheet 21 by 15 inches, folded to eight pages IV-i by 10 ',4 inches each. The pages were not cut to facilitate binding. bind-ing. In the words of the editor, edit-or, "A paper that is worth printing, is worth preserving; if worth preserving, it is worth binding; for this purpose pur-pose we issue in pamphlet form; and if every subscriber shall preserve each copy of ! the "News", and bind it at the close of the volume, their children's children may read ' the doings oi' their fathers, J which otherwise might have been forgotten; ages to come." ;' : ?'.-'; : -. -v '.',' f "':'.;!' 4 & t. 'tsi ,:",( ;v'ti;c, J .ft tii,. ' i'i:. 1 VI J j, t .!' ;. ' ;-: ' , h-",iV '-...-"":.";;".? f.;iyt:'ti:f;:i;''f:l;4:,;!!l; .. t'r'i ivN-'-H y'k ' ' 1 . : i'i. WlU.ill.il-n.u;iiHW , , llh uJ ( .i.,.H...n. . . ,1. ( i l IprTjil j'l m J::B , ;v-;JI; PRESENTS TO COLLEGE. Mrs. Florence Flor-ence Higbee presents copy of the first Deseret News to be published to rep resentative of the College of Southern South-ern Utah, Mrs. Inez Cooper, left and A. T. Challis, right |