| Show UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION suburban community for which it was named The Herald was minimally successful until June 1961 when LaMar Busath and Fred Bittner became its owners through default of its printing costs They brought it to an end on November 17 1961 companion paper initiated by Green the Granite Park Press experiencedsimilar life-span before vanishing into newspaperdomvalhalla second attempt to createSouth Salt Lake City paper this one the News was begun in May 1968 by Earl Alsop It ceased publication upon his death June 18 1970 Though history gives it scant credibility the most ambitious newspaper undertaking in the Salt Lake and Davis county suburbs of Salt Lake City was begun -and ended -in 1898 Braxton from his Utah Publishing Company offices at 60 Richards Street undertook to furnish no less than dozen suburban communities newspaper of their own Only one of them had experiencedweekly publication before -that Centerville where the Call operated in 1897 and early 1898 under the direction of Carroll and Melvie Smith Carroll had originally owned Utah Publishing and in 1897 had started and ended the Western Observer Before his journalistic tracks were obliterated he would also appear briefly at the helm of the turn-of-the-century Lehi Banner Smith had no other in-state newspapering ties Braxton picked up where Carroll and Smith had ended in Centerville and added these mastheads to his combine Draper Dial Farmington Flashlight Hooper Herald Kaysville Kinetoscope Layton Lancet Riverton Review Syracuse Standard Taylorsville Telephone Union Times West Jordan Journal and Woods Cross Watchman Perhaps the bad luck addition of13th publication consigned the venture to failure when the Fort Douglas Gazette was initiated and the house of cards tumbled There is similarity in the plan Braxton conceived and that of the so-called syndicate publishers of 1911-1915 who produced local newspapers in Salt Lake City for distribution in various out-state communities At its height this practice 130 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
