Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-08-01
THERE are many persons in this commit

THERE are many persons in this commu-
nifty. as we have found in every other COM
ncgaity, who evidently think it does not cost
anything to run ne newspaper. Wewish right
here to dIsahuse the minds of such persons
of their erroneous impressions. And in or
der to do so we will call to mind the incon-
trovertlble fact that since the settlement OF
this Territory, and the establishment Of the
several newspapers now living in the Terri
81, yyi1iltr uaIes Dach Ju an taIIy usly, 1iiaI
Jr5lr rrovTietors are notat this time, better
aEed financially than when they commenced,
ard no set of men have lahored more faith
fully nor harder than they to stem the cur
rent Of commercial life. Besides at least SIX
pa2sis Eaye met with an early death in their
Struggles to attain paying basis. How dif-
iareDt has il been in other enterprises. The
merchants of Montana, laboring less than
haii tha number of hours that are devoted by
the publisher to his business. and being COM
paratiyely freed from the innumerable yexa-
tions which surround the latter. have attained
wealth sufficient for many of them to retire
upon. The same may be said OF those en-
gagged in almost every legitimate business in
the Territory since its organization, where
they have devoted any care and attention to
their various enterprises. But the publishers
of Montana have struggled hard and faith
fully, early and late, and still there are no
Rothchilds in the fraternity, nor even one of
them in what may be termed s'easy circum-
Stances Still there are those in our midst
whoI complain of the high price OF adyertis-
ing, &c. We will remind the merchants and
business men OF Montana of this fact, that
there is scarcely an article sold by them here
for less amount than double its cost in New
York, and that the. prices charged by New
York papers for advertising are more than
five times greater than those charged by
Montana papers. This of course refers to the
papers of New York City, and our business
friends may say that their extensive circula-
tions make the difference. Taking into con-
sideration the objects aimed at by advertisers,
the circulation of Montaua papers is greater.
Because they are either taken or read by al
most every one in the Territory. They sub
serve the ends aimed at by local advertisers
better than the papers alluded to above.
While the prices OF interior Eastern papers
are much less, we will say that an ordinary
Eastern weekly can be run at an annual ex-
pense of from six hundred to thousand dol
lars, and that there is not probably paperin
Montana that is published at less expense
than six thousand dollars per year, and cash
is required to meet that expense.
These remarks have been brought out by
the fact that our second volume is drawing to
a close, and many of those who encouraged
us from the start by subscribing for the paper,
have meyer Yetreeognized the tact thatmoney
was necessary to insure the success OF our
enterprise, and are still indebted for their
subscription. We INDUCED our subscribers
when times were good, and now they take
advantage of hard times to plead exsenua-
ton. There is no one probably in this county
who feels the effects of the present hard
times more sensibly than ourself, and we find
ii necessary to earnestly ask all indebted to-
as to come forward and settle.