Weekly Trinity journal., 1878-07-13

good old times in which it played no un-
important part. 1t was used on the first
paper printed in Trinity and has issued
TWO other papers since. After many
years Of disuse it has gone to Scott Val
ley, Siskiyou county, where new paper
is about to be started. A brief resume
OF its operations while its lever lived and
moved and had being in our midst may
not lack interest to those who have been
co-resident with it.
The press is hand power of the old
"Smith pattern, now about obsolete.
1t was bought here and first used bv
Chas. I. Cutler and Edwin A. Rowe.
who issued the initial number of the pio-
ncer paper, the Trinity Times, on the
9Th day of December 1854, the firm being
Rowe " Cutler, with Edwin A. Rowe as
editor. The partnership was Of short du-
ration, as in the third number of the pa
per, Dec 23d, 1854, we find that Cutters
connection severed, Rowe became sole
proprietor and DR.. Edward Trask, editor
On the Sth of September, 1886, DR.. Traslx
being about to visit the Atlantic States
laid down the quill and scissors and was
succeeded by John Caspar Crowninshield.
On the 23rd of February, 1856, Edward
Pollock assumed control as Editor and
Publisher and had about killed the paper
by June of that year, when it was sold to
John j. Conmy. Up to that time the
TfRtty Times had been an Independent
newspaper, but the Democracy thought
they must have an organ and Conmy
made II a Democratic sheet. OF course
that killed it outright. AT least it sue
cumbed March l4th, 1857, and Conmy in
card published in the Journal of the
following week accused the Democracy
of having starved him out. The press
and material used on the Times we're sold
to Seaman & Gordon, founders of the
TRINITY Journal which had then been
running since January Goth, 1856.
The old Press was then stored and did
not again see the light until 1861. At
that time our neighboriig town of Doug
las City was Aourishing village, con-
tanning many business houses and sur.
rounded with a numerous mining popu-
lation. principally engaged in river
mining. T. 4. Jones, our present Coun-
ty Judge, a practical printer and an edi-
tor of no small ability, purchased the
Times press and material and in May,
1861, commenced the publication of the
DOH9tdS city Gazette. The flood of '6l-2
cleaned Trinity River and the Washoe
excitement carried away many of the
men who were residents in this county
and had been devastated by the Hood
On completing the First Volume the
future prospects ofa paper at Douglas
City We're not promising and the Gazette
was discontinued. Again the press was
stored, this time the property of Mr..
Jones and at Douglas City. There it re-
mained till 1870, when the Democracy
again thought they should have a paper
of Their own.
On the llth of October, 1870, the Trim
itV Press was issued in Weaverville,
Vincent A. Ryan, practical printer and
thorough newspaper man at the helm,
and the old press was again brought into
requisition. The TRINITY Press run until
December, 1871, when after precarious
existence Of II months it,died and the
press, types, ETC., were purchased by
Lovcjoy & Feter, then pruprietors of the
Journal. Since that time the old press
has been stored in this town and has been
part and parcel of the Journal estab-
lishment, though never used in this Of
fee.
Thus it will be seen that of the three
papers worked on this press in Trinity,
none were successful. Perhaps its re-
moval to another county may, in miners
phrase Change its luck" Scott Valley
is a 6ourishing agricultural and mining
section and it has long been matter of
wonder to us that weekly paper was not
started there. The new paper will be
started at Fort jones and we learn that
it will haze the countenance and support
Of the solid citizens OF that section. If
the people there look to their own interests
the Scott Valley Git hasn't been christen-
ed yeti will be a success.