The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-06-10

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and Improved. The enlargement in itself
constitutes I very material improvement
since the increased space devoted to reading
matter enables us to give a much wider range
and extent to the contents Of our news coli
umns and make the MINER much more of .
newspaper than was possible with our former
limited proportions. But thisi is by no means
the only Improvements TO be observed. Ever
since the paper was enlarged and changed to
the quarto form we have been laboring under
difficulties whose effects were only toe often
visible on its pages. The hand press in use
until this week was too small for the paper
printed on it; hence the crumpled sheets, the
vague impression at the foot Of the columns,
and numerous other defects which we have
always found highly annoying but Of which
we said nothing so long as they could not
very well be remedied. But all such defects,
annoying and vexatious to reader and pub
Usher alike, are happily passed, and to-day
we can but express our thanks to onr indul
gent subscribers who put up with such imper-
~fections and patiently bore with us during our
early struggles until such time as we could
offer them a better paper. That time has
come. 1t now becomes our pleasant duty to
make it manifest hat the kindly indulgence
of our readers has not been unappIeciated.
By way of SO doing we present them with a
larger paper than it would be necessary for
us to publish if we were merely DESTROYS of
deserving their support by keeping abreast of
the Territorial press.
Our new power press works like a charm,
hut since the greatly improved appearance Of
the MINER speaks quite distinctly for itself
W. may proceed to state that other imp owe
ments will shortly be introduced. The in
voice of paper lately ordered from the east is
whittier ard Of a much finer quality than that
upon WI ich this issue is printed within two
months, or as soon as the machine designed
for the purpose can be procured, the paper
will be got out in a form far superior to its
present shape and more convenient for the
reader, and besides this an addressing ma
chine will be used to stamp the number at
which the subscription expires upon each
copy together with the subscribers name and
address. This last will be no slight improve
ment of itself, since it will prevent any loss
of sleep through torturing doubts as to
whether or not anything is due the newspa-
per man. At present our conscience makes
us no end of reproaches owing to the amount
of suffering necessarily entailed by the primi-
tive style Of addressing employed. Of a still
greater Improvement than N of those above
enumerated we can speak only conditionally,
since it depends not on ourselves but on our
patrons to say whether or not it is to be in
troduced. By this we refer to the publica-
ton Of a daily edition Of the MINER, for as
soon as our daily is started a very large pro-
portion of our advertising will be transferred
to its columns from the weekly, leaving the
latter to he filed with late telegraph news or
other interesting reading matter. Now,
chases, paper, Steam press and everything
else required in the publication of q daily
have been provided. We await only the
coming of the telegraph and the assurance of
adequate support to issue the first number of
the daily at any time at a days notice. As
far as the telegraph is concerned the wire for
the Deer Lodge branch came in last week,
and before the end of the month dispatches
will be received at the Butte office, so the
matter depends upon what encouragement
We receive. A common expression made use
of in founding a paper is the declaration that
it was started "to fill a long felt want" and
whoever wishes to avoid bankruptcy while in
the business will do well to see that there is
a want before undertaking to supply it. This
is what we propose to do. We issue a good
weekly paper because we have received libe-
raj support and it will be the same with the
daily. The publication of a daily will in
volve a large increase in the number of office
employees and many additional expenses. II
remains altogether with the public to say
whether those expenses are to be provided.
1t may be supposed that we ought to be i'm
PEELED through sanitary considerations to the
wider field Of daily journalism, owing to the
insufficient exercise afforded by a weekly;
or that an investment ofthe kind should be
necessary to rescue from the danger of break
ing banks the funds with which members Of
the craft are usually inundated. This idea is
a mistake. Yes, it is the saddest kind of a
sad mistake. In the first place We are
blessed with constitutions capable of support
ing without any risk whatever even a little
more repose than is to be enjoyed about the
office of a large weekly paper, and then as
for the funds, we can find secure and highly
desirable employment for them in paying our
debts; so, dear public, don't for a moment
imagine that we are going to infiict upon
you a daily newspaper If you don't want it.
Some tine before the telegraph gets in op-
Grafton a thorough canvass of Butte and
vicinity will be made for subscriptions and
advertising for the daily. From the en-