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Show STARTING A WESTERN PAPER. 233 who attempted to become a Colorado journalist before he had learned to write. " Arkins is fond of a joke," said another quill driver. "I have often heard him tell an experience of his, which, if you feel inclined to hear, I will relate." We expressed our willingness, and he proceeded. STARTING A WESTERN PAPER. " In 1878, when excitement ran high in Leadville, and fortunes were made with almost magical rapidity, Arkins, then foreman of the Denver Tribune, was struck, as he relates it, ',all of a heap,' with the idea of starting a paper in the Carbonate city. Friends advised him to let ' well enough' alone, and not go careering after the uncertainties of life. But he laughed at their arguments and ultimately invested every dollar he had in a printing press and shipped it to the great mining camp. " In those days the only railroad in that direction terminated at Webster, the rest of the journey being made in stages. "So great was the rush of travel, only those who were in favor with the management could obtain a seat in the stage unless ordered long in advance. But our journalist, having an eye single to comfort, took the necessary precaution and secured it. "While at Webster he saw the wagon trains heavily laden with bullion toiling on their way to the depot. He stepped around to see his freight safely transferred. The type had been packed in boxes, which of course were as 'heavy as lead.' A great, burly teamster, who seemed to possess Herculean strength, swooped down on a box, expecting to toss it with careless ease into the wagon, but |