| Show UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION June 19 1898 during which its recently-occupied plant was completely destroyed along with newly-installed equipment Notwithstanding the Record didnmisssingle publication thanks to what its publisher termed little help from its friends The Salt Lake Herald offered the use of its plant gift in Dad words gladly accepted He editorially explained The free use of any and all departments of this mammoth daily was placed at our disposal The fire was one of Park Cityall-time major stories It virtually eliminated the mining townbusiness district and even in reporting the blaze and its aftermath the Record operated fromtent It also published under Raddondirec tion through two major depressions more thanfew economic slumps in the mining industry and three wars Ben Mortensen paid this tribute to the Record in compiling the history of the paper In looking back over the many years the Park Record has served well the town of Park City It has lived through depressions fires fierce competition and everything that the town itself has survived It offersvivid picture of two-fisted journalism in the days of the early west and mining days in Utah and how it had to fight for survival Today the people of Park City look to the Record as their source of news To these people the Raddon family was is and always will be the Park Record The paper continues today assymbol of the changes in journalism and howpaper under fine leadership can survive those changes Certainly Mr Mortensen captured the spirit of both Sam Raddon and the Record His goal was to produce the best paper possible and so far as financial means permitted he did so On October 20 1888 he unveiled an 8-column folio with all four pages home print In the time of boiler-plate in Western journalism -copy produced and printed elsewhere which was used to augment news and advertising locally-developed -having an entirely home-produced paper was no small achievement Nor did the Record fail to thoroughly cover the news of its community An April 30 1892 shooting resulted in 600 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
