Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-07-07
The "kansas CITY Journal"

6s az present organized, wss formed in
1919, ana was then the OutgrOwth or several
papers bearing different names, but all
LAYING successfully occupied the same
neid. The establishment of the Journal
oates from 1854, when what is now the
best advertised City in America was a mere
village. The present able editor-in-chief
and Member OF Congress from that Dis
Iic1 HON. ROBERT T. VANHoRN, was the
us editor or that paper, and has main
salne0 ms connection down to the pres 3nt
time. Up to 1873 the Journal rented its
put In that year the Journal Company
bought the site, and in the following year
erected 1.-THE Journal Building.n
Inc Journal, an eightpage paper. Is
published every day In the year. It has
Two other editions during the week-viz:
me trt-toeekly and aUeekly. The circula-
ZION OF the Journal exceeds daily aver
age OF (10,O00) ten thousand copies, and
us sunday edition often excseds (15,0O0)
aIteen thousand copies. The force REQUIRED
20 accomplish the work necessary for the
production OF such q paper as the JOurncJ
Is quite beyond the expectation OF the pub
lie. An edit0r-in-chief, two associate edi-
tors, managing editor, commercial editor,
telegraph editor, city editor, i've local re-
porterS, and moro than one hundred cor
respondents residing all over the South
ives, are taxed TO their utmost to furnish
matter. Besides these, the Journal pub
fishes two Associated Press services. CIV
ing an average of Is 600 words per diem.
and q special in Washington who adds to
tnese as the case may require. More
IMAM forty men are required to It up
ms vast amount of matter, and from
ten 10 fifteen men are constantly re-
CURED in the press room, STEREOTYPE de.
partment and engineers room. The BUSH
ness office taxes the best efforts of the bust
ness manager, the secretary of the Com
pany and chief bookkeeper, two aavertis-
ing clerks, three mailing clerks, two adj
vertiSing solicitors, and four men who
are constantly on the road. The circula.
t0r hnds it necessary to employ three as
slstantS and fifteen carriers, and to provide
sixteen horses, fully equipped, for the va
rlous departments connected with the cir
culation of the JG,LrnoL. The regular an
nual expenses OF the Journal exceed
$125, 900 per annum.
In 1880 the Journal Company, finding
that Its circulation had increased beyond
the capacity OF an Old-fashioned cylinder
press, purchased Of G. Potter, Jr. & Co, of
New York, one Of Walter SCOTS new per-
fectlng presses, capable OF printing, cut
ting, pasting and folding fifteen thousand
completed papers an hour. The expense
attending this change was about S25 COZ.
The local field OF circulatiOn-the City of
Kansas, with its immediate suburban
towns, and the two counties of Jackson
and Clay-had population Of 97,943 at
the last census, which will now exceed
126 600 inhabitants. The legitimate field
In which the daily Journal has no great
Republican competitor comprises Western
Missouri, Southern Iowa and Nebra ska.
Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico. Northern
Texas, western Arkansas, and several
Territories. Within this territory the
Journal is sold on more than 400 mules
Of railroad.