Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1885-08-12
CARSON NEWSPAPERS.

It is to be regretted that there is
not in Carson one daily to give the
telegraphic dispatches it is a
source of humiliation that the four
papers of Carson cannot supply Its
citizens with newspaper reading
matter; it is to be deplored that
Messrs. Cagwin & Noteware and ).
G. Fox, to the detriment OF home
industry, are called upon daily to
distribute about $50 copies OF the
Virginia Chronicle and Virginia
Enterprise, papers published In a
town but twenty-one miles distant
and in addition, 250 copies OF the
various San Francisco papers. This
immense circulation of foreign pa
pers, let it be remembered, is ex-
elusive Of the numerous outside
coast dailies and weeklies. BY
these foreign dailies alone there IS
taken from the pockets of our cltl-
zens not less than $525 per month,
or Sc 300 per year. This $1,000 per
year would pay for all the tele-
graphic dispatches taken by the
largest paper, and probably by the
two largest papers on the Pacific
Coast.-Free Lance
The above is strictly true. The
cause of the failure of any Carson
newspaper to take telegraph dis
patches is mainly because the peo-
pie of the city had rather send
abroad for the dispatches and get
them six or seven hours late, than
have them served by a Carson pa
per. This has long been pecul-
iarity of Carson. Its citizens buy
nothing at home that they can get
abroad even if they have to pay
more for it. Thousands of dollars
70 away from here every month to
purchase goods in San Francisco
and the East. When the postage,
express charges and freight bills
are all settled up, the goods cost
lust as much as if purchased here.
Most of the people who do this
sort Of business get postal order
for ten cents, so that the local bank
can have no chance to make cent.
This constant drain upon the finan-
cial resources Of the city keeps the
town poor. Business men say that
women are among the chief people
who send away for everything. 1t
is safe to say that eight women out
of ten in Carson send abroad for
what they want. Nothing in the
stores seem good enough for them.
The result is soon manifest. Mon
ey gets tight, business dull, and
then husbands cannot collect the
money due, and as a result their
wives have good deal less money
to purchase their fnery with, 1t
is clear case of retributive justice.
In the matter of newspapers the
same thing holds. If one half the
money sent abroad for papers was
used in Carson, she could publish
one good newspaper with the tele-
graphic dispatches. People are
gradually beginning to understand
that there are too many papers IN
Carson. As news journals the four
papers published here arc a dis
grace to journalism, and standing
reproach to the city, Every copy
that goes abroad advertises to the
world that the capital city OF Ne
vada cannot support q paper that
can take the telegraph dispatches.
Any paper would be foolish to take
these dispatches and also take the
chances on public patronage in this
city. No paper could afford to do
it without first getting a guarantee
from the business men and citi-
zers that in the event of the dis
patches being published they
would increase their patronage Of
the paper. The Free Lance says
that $500 a month goes out of the
city for papers. Half that sum
would furnish good Associated
Press reports. If the citizens will
pledge themselves to $3.50 the AP-
PEAL will take the dispatches and
take the chances on the other 800.
Governor Adams appears to be