Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1876-06-02

lished and which serves the public
dsmands - we'll - could Be ezpested
has received many practical tests oil
over the country. II all the failures
that have resulted from such efforts
were recorded in one place and kept
before persons longing to become
publishers II might be a benefit and
save many small fortunes. There Is
no branch Of business on the coast
| that is so much overdone as the news
paper business. In every corner oil
the country where few houses are
collected together and a limited
number Of stores are trying to make
| q showing Of business you will find
the weekly paper 0patent outside,
albeit and the half starved editor,
deluded with the notion that he was
by nature fitted for no other calling
| and that his publication is altogether
| an affair quite important to the peo-
pie. At every county seat, nearly,
the printing press performs its duty
in promulgating legal advertisements
and stale information. In the great
metropolis are many daily issues that
reflect credit upon the intelligence
of the people who support them. and
compare favorably with the large
dailies OF the Eastern cities. These
papers, sustained by immense capital
and conducted at wonderful expense,
are q standing illustration of OAR
wins theory of Natural Selection,
on the survival Of the tittest. They
crowd out all the smaller ones on
the line of any railway leading from
San Francisco, for the reason that
they are delivered before the ink on
them is dry, and are complete in ali
their departments of news. Journal-
ism now in California, except at
points atless, twenty-four hours from
the chief city. is just about as I'M
profitable an undertaking as one
could engage in. The city papers do
ali the business, The San Francisco
Chronicle circulates more copies in
Stockton and San Jose than the home
papers do, and has as large circula-
ton here on the Comstock IS any of
our own meritorious publications ex-
cept one The whole coast, in short,
is supplied with general news by
the press of San Francisco. There
fore i, is like moving against gravity
to attempt to make any great success
in an interior place. Virginia City
and Sacramento are the only interior
cities tina, have real good newspapers.
All the others are mere local affairs,
Nevertheless, in view of this plain
state of things, persons are found
now and then who have more money
than foresight, and who believe they
can create q sensation and make
profit 10y publishing little news
paper where the people are already
gluttcd with news, and where there
is no reasonable prospect Tor COM
Portable existence. 0ftcntimes such
persons are not prompted so much
by desire to make money As to in
jure some concern already estab-
lished, and thereby ven, a miserable.
unmanly spleen. When this is the
case, the experienced observer counts
on failure from the first, and is sell
dom disappointed.
We have AN illustration of recent
occurrence aud near at hand. 1t is
the unfortunate Mining Reporter.
Its founder was for long time en-
ployed on tins paper, and in the
course Of events the proprietor
found II suitable to himself TO make
such $ change as left the gentleman
open 10 engagement elsewhere.
Straightwsy the discharged man set
about bis own ruin. He must have
paper of his own and crowd out
The TINES. His experience should
have taught him that the same would
he wearying task, 1t did knock at
the door of his understanding many
times, no doubt, but be was blinded
with revengeful feelings, and went
ahead. A failure overlook him in a
short while, and now he is bankrupt
and in the hands Of an officer-all
from his wild endeavor to overcome
An old established newspaper. After
Q few weeks of trial he Was no doubt
convinced OF his folly. and, in 8 mo-
ment of desperation, Illuminated a
base charge against some respectable