Boise news. (Bannock City, I.T. [Idaho City, Idaho]) 1863-1864, 1863-10-27

From the N. !. conespOnden5 Of the Sac. Unio


The Tribune appeared on MoBda
morning % nonpareil, for the first tim
y ten years. Its Typography is greatl
improved. The suit which it cast asid
had been III use nearly three years, AM
might have been worn another year I'm
der che ssefeotyping process, had il no
been for Horace, to whom smutiy
page ls an eye-sore Nearly FIVE years
ago, when Tom Rooker-all of his ole
boys call him Tom, although he is a.
s. gray as a rat, to which quadruped be
bears not The slightest resemblance 9th
erRise-when Rocker and Kfash com
menced experiments in stereotyping the
Tribune. George Bruce, who has cast
ell the Tribune type since the day when
he loaned Horace that now famous thou
sand dollars, laughed them to scorn.
Nevertheless they persOvered for more
than eighteen months before they cast a
perfect page. The difficulty was to
cool the metal evenly from edge to cen>
ter 50 that, in printing, every letter
might strike the cylinders Of the press.
g Monks aud friaFsp which the gem
eral reader will understand to mean
dark and light spots on the page-per>
picked them until they learned, BY casts
ing several dummy pages In the
mould, and thus beating it, and then
casting the live page therein, and
permitting it, to cool with the mould,
they could secure q perfect surface.
Eureka ] Thenceforward the Tribune
was stereotyped every morning. The
Herald and the Times at once intre-
duced sters0tgping ROOMS into their es-
tablishments, rStereotyping costs the
Tribune four thousand dollars q year
printed on ordinary copper-faced types,
its type-founder's bill could scarcely fall
short Of nine thousand dollars annually. |
Nor Is The money view all that is to be-
said about stereOtyping. Types squeezed
inteaa seraisweekly, Weeklya and daily
edition. and rHna through a quarter of
. million impressions on a Hoe light. /
ming press, always came tlierefrom baked I
together With ink and oil, so that the
compOsItors were unable TO separate /
the letters until the columns had been
separately soaked and broken in boilingE
ley and hot waters process which cost
every cotnpositOr nearly an hour daily. /
Z he saving Of six orsseven hours week
.for every one Of forty workmen, the
reader can readily perceive t6abe an In.
portant item but who shall say how !,
many emphatic oatbs have been unsaid +
that daily saluted the old oiI-soaked. (
ink-baked, jammed, broken and smashed &
types that were used by the Tribune, I,
Herald and Times before the Introduce L
tion Of .ssereotyping. ~ s-FrH
with. his new letter. Tom Brings out t
2 new case of bis own inYention.9 In
this case he throws aside the superauous !
boxes ID The old capital case, slightly /,
condenses 81 81, the boxes, deepeus tbe
lower case SO that it is about three I
inches deep, and has false bottoms there r
in5 which may be raised or lowered at
pleasuT one movement of leyer-lifting
or letting fall all Of the boxes simultaN !
neouslY. The case requires about two
thirds the space occupied by the old G
case, aud will hold much more type, Ev
While it materially lessons the number
Of miles which compositor's right hand y
travelssin a year. Rocker once told me
that he wished to feel; on leaving earthly a
affairs, that the art pfeservative " had II
not suffered because Of his having lived.
May be live long. enough to .beget ans a
other Ike himself if it requires the A
ago of Old Parr. Z
aDoN'r LIKE Us-NeYer make use Of Ia