The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-05-22

A Pioneer in fact a. Well - in Name.
The March number of The Northwest
magazine gives some interesting facts in
connection with the growth and progress
of the Pioneer Press. It says:
The Pioneer Press establishment is
more than private enterprise-it is an
institution which has always been closely
identified with every phase of the rapid
ly developing civilization Of which it
wasin fact as well as in name, the'pioneer.
The Pioneer Press as a newspaper
stands forth as striking illustration of
the growth and prosperity, not alone of
the cities of st. Paul and Minneapolis,
but ofthe empire of states and territories
of which these cities are the centre and
type. With the first dawn of political
life in the northwest in 1S49. the st. Paul
Weekly Pioneer made it's appearance,
its founder being the famous James NJ.
Goodhue. and from that germ has grown
and b'ossomed.the Pioneer Press of to.
day. Other journals have come and
gone in endless procession, and their very
names are almost forgotten, but the
Pioneer Press has continued it's resistless
march.
The Pioneer Press traces its lineage
from the Pioneer, established April %,
lS49, and from the st. Paul Press, found
ed on the first of January. 1851. The
Pioneer displayed a.snap and vigor that
soon enabled it to outshine and absorb
all its Democratic rivals, and it grew into
a strong and self.sustainingjo journal. The
st. Paul Press, in turn, absorbed the
Republican papers that preceded it. and
this paper, under the management of the
present proprietos of the Pioneer Press,
soon commenced that career of marvellous
prosperity which is scarcely paralleled in
the history of journalism. For about
twenty-three wears it has never ceased to
grow in stature and strength, mot a single
year has passed that has not shown cir
culation and volume ofbusiness greater
than that of the year preceding There
has been no pause in its development,
and at no time has it ever taken step
backward.
In 1875 the Pioneer was taken 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 have been
in the direction of improvement and en-
largement as rapidly as means and oppor-
tunities presented themselves for meet
ing the increasing wants of its widening
circle of patrons. The Pioneer
Press is regularly sold by train agents
upon the more than $1,000 miles of the
eighteen lines of railroad which are direct.
ly tributary to the locality Of its publi-
cation. Four hundred and fifty
local news agents sell the Pioneer Press
at cities and villages on all these lines,
and it also has large subscription list
supplied by mail direct. It is one of the
not more than four newspapers in the
United States, publishing every day, in
its own columns, sworn statements of its
circulation.
The paper is printed from stereotype
plates, upon Hoe perfecting press, which
is marvel ofmechanicali ingenuity, with
a capacity of IL. 900 sheets per hour, every
sheet being cut from continuous roll of
paper, and coming from the press printed
and folded, ready for delivery