| Show THE UTAH NEWSPAPER HALL OF FAME ings conventions and entertainments were visited M politely worked his way into many agricultural organizations The Bee Keepers the Utah Horticultural Society the Sugar Beet Growers and the Canning Crops Poultry and Livestock groups And then into the Utah State Farm Bureau where he became secretary helping in that position to organize the American Farm Bureau He succeeded in getting many of these groups to name the Farmer their official organ and when this was accomplished their membership lists were added to his circulation By then M had let printerink get into his blood and decided to stake his future on his publications -the Farmer and the newspapers The Banner along the way had picked uppair of fellow travelers the American Fork Citizen and the Pleasant Grove Review Mmercantile store was closed and in succession all his other interests were sold or closed He began spending full time in the printing and publishing field The Farmer became the apple of Kirkhameye and he felt he had to findway to make more time for this publication So in 1914 he sold Alpine Publishing Company which was the printing plant and the local papers to the Lorenzo Gaisford family of American Fork From that time until the Farmer was moved to Salt Lake it was printed by the Gaisfords ascommercial job Circulation of the Farmer kept coming in much faster than the advertising necessary to justify it SoM took off to the home offices of logical advertisers and their advertising agencies regardless of where they were located in the United States Armed with facts pictures and charts he made trips to both the east and west coasts to sell Utah and the Deseret Farmer Predictably the trips began to pay off Schedules increased in frequency and in size Halves pages and center spreads made their appearance This called for additional help in all departments of the paper The increased revenue made it possible for the older of his nine children to attend college or go on missions all at the same time 575 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
