The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-25
THE CHRISTMAS HERALD.

The publishers and editors are both
pleased and proud of The CHRISTMAS
HERALD which goes to the world this
morning on mission for good. We have
pride in the quantity and quality OF the
contents. and pleasure in the financial sup
port which its pages show. Those who are
at all familiar with the publishing in
dustry in the interior west will under
stand. when they see the paper, how
great was the undertaking to get out such
a notification with the limited facilities to
be found hereabouts; and newspaper men
everywhere will appreciate the labor in
volved in collecting, arranging and printing
the matter presented in the holiday edition.
Outside of California and possibly Colorado
in none of the far western states or terri
tories has there been publication which
in any sense compares with THE CHRISTMAS
HERALD. Holiday papers have been issued
but they have usually been small affairs COM
pared with this one, and where they have
pretended to anything like greatness the
mechanical and the artistic work has been
done elsewhere. TIE CHRISTMAS HERALD
is Utah production. With the exception
of the front cover page Autograph, it was
printed in this office; with very few excep-
tions-and they are not the most meritOr-
ious-the illustrations are by Utah artists {;
the matter is largely from Utah pens, and
the financial patronage which has made
the issue possible comes almost exclusively
from Utah people. Is there not in all
these facts something 10 be proud Of! We
think there is, and so do the people of Utah
generally. They are proud of the literary
talent which is found in the pages of the
paper OF the poetic genius there displayed,
of the grand showing which the city and
territory make, of the liberality and saga
city of our business men, of the circum
stance that there is printing Office here
which can get out such paper and Of the
courage and enterprise of the publishers
who have undertaken such a work.
The HERALD does not speak thus in a
Boosting sense as regards itself, but of
Utah and her grand and progressive PEG
pie 1t is they who have done this, and we
are proud and pleased, because in doing it
they have given tc the world striking
illustration and irrefutable evidence of
their ability, their enterprise, their pros
prosperity and their progressiveness.
The attention Of all our aders, both near
and far, is directed to The CHRISTMAS
HERALD In its pages you will find a
truthful pen picture of Utah as it exists to
day, and from that you will be able to
opine as to the future. The aim has been
to state only facts, and to make the presen-
tation in way that will be most acceptable
to the average reader and have the best i'm
preston on his mind. Whenever posi-
BILE dry tables and wsarying statistics have
been avoided the facts being given in a
more presentable form.
That THE CHRISTMAS HERALD will do
much good all will concede. An edition of
q, 600 copies has been printed, and they
will go TO every continent and every coun-
try Of the civilized globe. For days past
orders have been coming in from the differ
ent states and territories OF the union, and
for Europe, and as was the case a year ago
individuals are assisting the Office in send
ing the issue to every known land. The
harvest may be confidently looked for, and
it will surpass in bounteousness and excel
lence the expectations of the sanguine.