The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-25
ITS RECORD OF A COUPLE OF DECADES.
The Men who Founded it, and who Have Been
Identified with it Since that Time.
THE new TEN THOUSAND DOLLAR PERFECTING PRESS.
How Our Present Issue Compares with the First
in and Around The Herald Building.

first occupied by THE HERALD were in the
Old Constitution Building, on Main street,
and the entire ''office" did not cover the
same area as is now used by the editorial
force alone. Here printers, editors and
pressmen all worked together. September
l, 1874, Hon. John T. Game was added to
the firm, and assumed the position of man
aging editor. The success achieved
| by THE HERALD during the first
! few months of its existence was much
greater than had been anticipated, and
increasing business necessitated more
room. This was found September 2, 1870
in the eastern portion of the old Deseret
Bank building, then located on the corner
where the elegant block of the same insti-
tuition now stands. These quarters gave
sufficient room for time, but increased
patronage again necessitated a removal,
and on September 5, 1875, we again
pulled up stakes,'' and settled in the
building on Main street, an old land mark
which is reproduced on this page aid since
razed to give room for the elegant Ed
redge block. There we remained until the
completion of THE HERALD block into
which we moved on March 81, 1884, and in
which the paper has ever since been pub
lished.
InJuly, 1874, THE HERALD Printing and
Publishing company was incorporated, and
the shares distributed somewhat, although
the three original proprietors-Caine, Sloan
and Dunloar-held large proportion of The
stock. On January l, 1886, new erganiza
ton, THE HERALD Company of to-day, as
sumed charge, having bought out THE HER
AID Printing and Publishing company
the present officers of THE HERALD COM
pany are as followsl
John T. Caine, president.
Heber j. Grant, vice-president
Direotors-Francis Armstrong, w. E.
Rowe, w. w. Ritter S. P Teasdel, Junius
F. Wells, Heber NJ. Wells, Richard w
Young, e. G. Woolley, Charles S. Burton,
James Sharp, Elias A. Smith.
THE HERALD OF TO-DAY.
Although familiar enough to most of
THE HERALD's daily readers, there are
many thousands of the readers of THE
CHRISTMAS HERALD to whom brief de-
scription of a modern newspaper office,
DulJ 1OT Jue special ueeuS Oh newspaper
work, will not be without interest.
THE HERALD bought its present corner,
80 by 100 feet, in 1888, of Messrs. Lawrence
and Hampton for the sum of $4,000, and
erected its brick buildi lg, three stories
and basement, in the same winter on 80 by
100 feet of its ground. leaving 20 feet by
100 to grow with the boom, which it has
done in a very gratifying manner. In 1884, |
when the new premises were first occupied, |
two rooms sufficed for the editorial force |
and half the upper floor was all that was !
needed by the corps of printers. With the |
growth of the paper, however, room,
room,n became the cry and the editorial |
quarters were shifted to more |
commodious rooms on the top |
floor, the counting room was in
creased in size, and the composing room
had onet third added to it's length, so that
the entire hundred feet on top is now in
active use, and at night time the long row
of lights stands like a beacon for miles
away, and looks like the port holes of some
Illuminated vessel: On the ground floor
only the corner rooms are used for the
business department and the private office
Of the business manager, the remaining
four desirable stores being occupied by the
insurance firm of Heber J. Grant & Co.,
the Contributor company, Collier & Co.'s
book agency, and the Union Coffee COM