The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-08
THE CHRISTMAS HERALD.
Some of the Features Of the Coming Big
Holiday Edition.

The presses are now at work on the
CHRISTMAS HERALD, and are turning them
out at the rate Of four pages every three
days. The $4,000 autographed covers, the
front of which contains engravings of the
Board of Trade building, the Temple and
the HERALD building, were shipped from
| Topeka Kan, on the 4th.
| Nearly twenty Thousand copies of the
| CHRISTMAS HERALD had been sold to bona
tide purchasers up to last night, the last
big order coming from the Union Pacific
railroad for 5000 copies; this lot alone will
receive circulation throughout the west
which will make the issue an invaluable
paper will be furnished each
daily subscriber free. Among the
| towns which have already sent
in large orders are Logan, Nephi, Pleasant
Green, Tooele and St. George, and can
vassers are now at work in Ogden, Provo
and Park city. The indications are that
there will hardly be more than enough
copies left to supply the news boys, who
| have already begun to fill orders through
their protective union.
The contents of the issue are not yet
completed, but it illjinclude almost every
| thing calculated to furnish an index to the
commercial progress of the city, especially
in 1889. President Geo. Q. Cannon will
contribute an article. The illustrations
will be numerous. There will be thirty to
forty pages, handsomely printed, and the
contents will be indexed. Other features
which by no means comprise the whole
are as follows:
The business outlook of Salt Lake cit
by Henry w. Lawrence, president of
chamber of commerce.
Real estate features of 1899.
Building improvements in each ward for
1889.
Business of the year.
Horse and cattle industry.
Utah's coal interests.
Utah's iron interests.
Park city's boom-Review Of her mines
and mining interests.
Bingham-Progress made by "the old re-
Iiable''
Tintic-Features of her mining boom.
Idaho-Her history and progress.
Prize story No. l: 1.-THE Hero of Gren-
Prize story No 2: 1.-THE Laurel Branch"
by Miss Emma Mccormick.
Prize poem No. l: "Christ and the
Mother" by Allen M. Karr.
Prize poem No. 9: SIN Many Fanes,"
by Miss Josephine Spencer.
OUtah scenery, by Alfred Lambourne.
illustrations of the notable buildings
erected in Salt Lake during 1899.
Christmas customs and Christmas
chimes, by Judge William Gill Mills.
Christmas in Constantinople, by James
Glove.
Recent home literature, by Susie Young
Gates.
Ogden, Provo, Logan and Nephi-
Sketches of their progress, commerce and
real estate developments during 1889.
The advertisers in the issue will in
clude some of the heaviest concerns in the
west. Two pages has been spoken for by
the Union Pacific railroad, two by z. C.
M. l., one by the Deseret National bank,
one by the Coop Wagon and Machine com
pany, one by the Grant Bros. transfer
company, one by the Salt Lake and Fort
Douglas railroad, one by the Home Fire
and Home Life Insurance companies, while
flow of smaller advertisements from the
city and Ogden, Provo, Nephi and Logan
will be included and properly classified.
Twenty-Five thousand editions, illus
trated, and with Autographed covers, are
not everyday occurrences in Utah, and ad-
vertisers, big and little, are not slow to
recognize the fact.