Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1892-03-02

and everything went The sheet first
OF the press was bought BY the owner
of the sawmill for fifty dollars. The
money was spent in buying pony with
which to carry the mail edition 10 the
post office, eighty-five miles away.
The Silver World was six-column
folio set in long primer, and the sub
scription price was three dollars per
annum- Advertising rates were one
dollar per line, set in BREWER. II was
also the county and city official organ.
and had the federal patronage in print.
ing notices of applications for mining
patents Altogether the Silver World
was bowling success The office was
the headquarters of the board OF trade,
the mining exchange, the city council.
the town company. the Razzledazzle
club and the vigilance committee. On
Sundays we covered the press and cases
with canvas tents and gave mp the Of
fee for n Sunday school. When the
hotel was overcrowded travellers were
welcome to sleep on the floor Hav-
ing no exchanges for several weeks
every line of matter was original. Some
of IT peculiarly so.
When the first issue appeared Pub
Usher Woods mounted a mustang with
bag full of papers for the post office.
The mustang was an untamed fiery
brute of the Ute breed and immediate
ly began the execution of "A war dance
which landed Woods in the street with
the mail bag on top of him. The pony
was then held by several miners until
the rider and mail were once moro
placed upon his back. The outfit was
then headed toward the east and
turned loose. In five minutes Il had
disappeared from view up the winding
trail that led TO Phillips pass. Woods
was three days in reaching Del Norta.
Then it took him three DAYS TO return
TO Lake City. In the meantime | had
ground ont enough matter for the sec
ond issue and n volunteer corps OF com.
positors had put it IN type. The forms
had been put 70 press and we were
just commencing TO work them off
The reading appeared 10 be all right,
only the title of the paper insisted ON
coming out on the fourth page. j
couldn't entirely understand it, and we
were just on the point of turning the
press around with the tympan sheet
pointing the other way when Woods en-
tered the office, tired and dusty with
his eighty-five mile ride. He gave one
look at the form and exclaimed:
You're an elegant bloomin lot oil
buffers. Ef you'uns wor aSsayed foi
brains there wouldn't be a trace"
We had made up" the forms wrong
side foremost 1t took Woods two
proper position, and then he lifted out
a.sfNt
Mining Outlook" and wrote piece
about "a Newspaper Chump" that re-
Elected on myself. 1t was highly
humorous article and Woods clnimed
that il would increase the circulation.
Woods afterwards left the Office door
open one day while he went up 70
Arcade saloon TO collect bill and a
Mexican jackass walked in and ate up
half the issue that had been printed.
/ wanted to write "A humorous article on
the subject, "a Newspaper Jackass, -
but Woods wouldn't have IT. / made
up my mind that his sense of humor
was Sigh tly lopsided.
Within n month after the first issue
appeared n semi-weelSly stage line and
n post office were established and the
Silver World had plain rolling. We had
plenty of exchanges TO clip from then
and that gave us more time for pros
pecting After working the paper of
we usually spent couple of days in
securing over the mountains and To-
eating mining claims. Somehow OF
other they didn't pan out and we would
resume the publication of the great
silver organ with n whole lot of accu-
INFLATED eNperience concerning lodes
dips, spurs, angles and adits. At one
time we had fourteen claims located,
but If steamboats, had been selling at
two cents a dozen, we couldn't have
made the first payment on paddle.
However, the hotels and various sa-
looms advertised literally and we were