| Show UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION Cripple Creek instead His crew and that of Merrick consequently became involved inrace accompanied by cheers of the onlooking miners to produce the territoryfirst paper By 20 minutes Byers Rocky Mountain News won out over MerrickCherry Creek Pioneer Not interested in competing Merrick sold his Ramage and instead went gold prospecting The press in turn printed two newspapers in the Denver area then the Canon City Times and finally was shipped to New Mexico where it continued to produce newspapers and other printed matter Printing one copy attime would obviously never satisfy the demand for news and in Europe steam-driven presses were being designed to utilize newly-conceived curved stereotype plates and eventually webs of newsprint in rolls Consequently mass production at surprising speed was already possible though still slowed by the antiquated process by which type was being set Still that system was in use until the Linotype came along When it did giant Hoe Goss and Duplex presses were already available to accelerate production Keeping pace Stephen Tucker invented in 1875 folding machine which operated at surprisingly high speed The actual printing of many small newspapers though was still on hand presses as late as 1905 when Elisha Warner first watchedpaper come off the press The press on which the paper was printed wassmall flat-bed affair called an Army press One man must handle an ink roller and ink the type form while the other man from the opposite side of the press put on the sheets rolled them under the cylinder by means ofhand crank and took them off at the other end he wrote Gradually more sophisticated presses powered by steam Opposite page THIS COTTRELL PRESS had been producing the Helper Journal for more than three decades when publisher Joe Tullius and his wife Ethel retired it in 1966 Its life-span pre-dated 1936 bywide margin though for it was printing the paper when Tullius first arrived in Helper 216 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
