The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1885-04-04
L. II. I.T.T,
Clerk Of The Bourd OF Go. Commissioners.

Clerk Of The Bcurd of Go. Commissioners.
A Pioneer in Fact as Well as in Name.
The March number of The Northwest
gives some interesting facts in connection
! with the growth and progress of the Pioneer
Press 1t SAYS
The Pioneer Press establishment is more
than private cnterprse-it is all institu-
| ton which has always been closely identi.
| fled with every phase Of the rapidly devel-
opins civilization Of which it was in fact as
well as in name, the pioneer. e
"THE PIONEER PRESS AS A NEWSPAPER
stands forth as a striking illustration Of
the growth and prosperity, not alone of the
cities of st. Paul and Minneapolis, but Of
the empire of states and territories of which
these cities are tile centre and type. With
the first dawn of political life in the North.
west in lsl9, the St Pa:.i Weekly Pioneer
made its appearance, its founder being the
famous James NJ. Goodhue, and from! tfiat
germ has grown and blOssomed the Pioneg.
Press Of to-day. Other journals have
come and gone in endless procession, and
their very names are a most forgotten. but
the Pioneer Press has continued its resist
less march.
"The Pioneer Press traces its lineage from
the Pioneer, established April %, 1910, and
from the ST. Paul Press, founded on the lat
Of January, 1861. The Pioneer displayed a
snap and yigor that soon enabled it to out
shine and absorb all its Democratic rivals,
and it grew into a strong and self-sustain-
ing journal. The St, Paul Press. in turn.
absorbed the Republican papers that pre-
ceded it, and chis paper, under the manage
ment of the present proprietors Of the
Pioneer Press. soon commenced that career
Of marvellous prosperity which is scarcely
paralleled in the history Of journalism.
For about % years it has never ceased to
year has passed that has not shown q cir.
culation and volume of business greater
than that Of the year preceding. There
has been no pause III its development, and
at no time has it ever taken step back.
ward.
''In 1875 the Pioneer was ta.:on into the
embrace of the Press, the consolidated
paper being the Pioneer Press, and from
that time to the present. as its readers will
cheerfully testify, the only changes in its
character and personnel haye been in the
direction Of improvement and enlargement
as rapidly as means and opportunities pre-
sented themselves for meeting the increas-
Ing wants of its widening circle of patrons
3 s II The Pioneer Press is regularly
sold by train agents upon the more than
10000 miles Of thu eighteen lines of rail-
road which are directly tributary to t. e
locality of its publication. 3 Four
hundred and fifty local news agents sell the
Pioneer Press at cite; and villages on ALI
these lines, and it also has large subscrip-
ton list supplied by mail direct. 1t is one
of the not more than four newspapers in
the United States. publishing every day, in
it's own columns, sworn statements Of Its
circulation.
THE paper is printed from stereotype
plates, upon Hoe perfectin. press, which
is marvel of mechanical ingenuity, with
a capacity of 1900 sheets per hour, every
sheet being cut from a continuous roll Of
paper, and coming from the press printed
and folded ready for delivery