| Show SOME SUCCEEDED MANY MORE DIDN papers were laboriously handset in 1893 but that system was much better than handwriting since reproductions could be made from the type whereassecond copy of manuscript publication was created in the same way as the original brighter future was on the horizon though for in that year the Tribune was first utilizing Ottmar Mergenthalerremarkable invention the Linotype which had been introduced to the printing industry only seven years earlier It was mixed bag for typesetters found themselves out ofjob even though speed of production increased dramatically Our Dixie Times in St George began publication at the outset of 1868 It was handset and printed onpress and in understandable pride its editor Joseph Johnson wrote The establishment ofa printing press in St George is the inauguration ofnew era to establish the printing press so far inland and in settlements so new and destitute of means to sustain it has not been small or light Re-named the Rio Virgin Times the paper struggled until November 24 1868 then like numerous similar printing ventures it ceased publication More about St George newspapers from the Times first successors to the most recent publications will be found later in this chapter No resume of Utahearliest papers would be complete without noting another begun in 1868 -on October 30th to be precise It was the first Utah-dated Frontier Index which came off the press at Bear River City volume could be written about this newspaper on wheels published by Legh Freeman It had followed construction of the Union Pacific Railroad for hundreds of miles from Ft Kearny in central Nebraska to the end of track-laying Though the Index soon disappeared Freeman and his wife Ada would later launch and publish the Ogden Freeman from June 18 1875 until its demise in 1879 Utah Territory experiencedveritable eruption of publications prior to the turn of the century most of which expired almost as quickly as theybegun Alphabetically by the communities in which they appeared they were 55 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
