, 1878-09-05
our Authorized AGENTS.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER ). ISIS.
OUR PROGRESS.

AS Indicated lIl ou' i"oN 'o'"N,
new era is being entered upon by
the ARGUS this week. Having be-
come, in so short time, fully eman-
cipated from the disadvantages of a
prejudice inherent in the minds of
progressive people against pat
ent insides," few comments may
not be out of place.
For nearly year and a half we
have performed as best we could un
der the circumstances the duties OF
editor, business manager, local re-
porter, travelling agent, typo, office
5oy, press man, proof.reader and
book. keeper of this journal and the
business connected with or growing
out of it. AT times these multifari-
Gus duties have been irksome to the
extent of taxing our somewhat ro
bust powers of endurance to their
utmost capacity. But an honest pur
pose, a conscientious course and per-
sistent effort have won the battle,
and already we realize having made
landing on the bright, sunny shores
of prosperity. When we purchased
the ARGUS in April, ~, it was an
eight-page paper as you see it today,
but four of those pages we're each
week printed in San Francisco; now
it is printed entire in this office, or,
in other words, we dispense to our
readers just double the amount of
home news and original matter with
each issue that found weekly publ
cation from this office before the
change Of editors. However, it is
neither our province nor inclination
to make boastful comparisons-the
oily question is: ''Do you get your
moneys worth ?" We believe every
reader will answer this question in
the affirmative. We do not claim to
have published paper as valuable
in all respects as it might have been,
but we DO claim that we have gradu-
ally worked it up to a point where
none can gainsay its claim to marked
improvement over its past. In do
ing this, obstacles not wholly insig-
nifcant have been met and over
come. Lack of experience has many
times been sadly felt (though if we
we're NOT perfect, we at least knew
it); opposition Of the most unfair and
ilegitimate nature has been met and
squarely tested, so far as we were
concerned, on relative merits, with a
result that can best be judged of by
our readers. And then there was
that terrible bug-bear to amateur
journalists, Financial disability" to
be conquered. Considering the usury
to be paid on original investment,
rents, high wages, travelling expen-
ses, buying new material, &C., this
last would seem hopeless task; but
thanks to liberal patronage, kind
friends and frugal habits, we can
fairly discern our way "out of the
woods" should misfortune remain a
stranger.
To those who have so kindly lent
ms helping hand by wholesome ad.
vice as well as in more substantial
ways We will always be drawn in the
bonds of gratitude; and these brief
years Of toll incident to our earliest
substantial effort will doubtless, on
account of their hopeful nature, be
remembered in after life With pleas.
ure. Let it not be supposed that
we are yet satisfied, either with our
past imperfect efforts or with the
present healthy and prosperous con-
dition of the enterprise in which our
energies are enlisted-true ambition
is never satisfied with mediocrity;
and besides, higher aspirations may
be INDUCED without implying pre-,
sumption. The amount Of mcchan-