The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-25

aunum. Advertising rates wore ono
dollar per line. set in brewer. It WINS
also the county and city official urg..n.
anu had the federal patronage in pru,s.
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, tho city council,
the town company, tho Ruzzledazzlc
club and the vigilance committee. On
Sundays we covered the press and cases
Win canvas tents und gave up the Of
flee for Sunday school. When the
hotel was ovcrcrowdcd 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 n mustang with
n bag full of papers for the post Office.
The mustang was IN unframed fiery
brute of the Ute breed and Immediate
~ began tho execution of u 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 lnail were once more
placed upon his back. The outfit was
then headed toward the east and
turned loose. In five minutes it had
disappeared from view up the winding
trail that led to Phillips pass. Woods
was three days i'll reaching Del Nortc.
Then it took him three DAYS to return
to Lake City. In the meantime l had
ground out enough matter for the sec
ond issue and a volunteer corps of com.
positors had put it III type. The forms
had been put to press and we were
just commencing to work them off.
The reading appeared to be all right,
only the title of the paper insisted on
coming out on the fourth page. |
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 ut the form ind exclaimed:
You're an elegant bloomin' lot of
buffers. Eff you'uns wor assaycd for
brains there wouldn't be trace"
We had made mp" the forms wrong
side foremost. 1t took Woods two
hours to shift the columns over into
proper position. and then he lifted out
an original article of mine on The
Mining Outlook" and wrote Il piece
about "A Newspaper Chump'' that re.
Elected on myself. 1t was Il highly
humorous article and Woods claimed
that it would increase the circulation.
Woods afterwards left the Office door
open one day while lie went up to
Arcade saloon to collect n bill and n
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 Jaclass."
but Woods wouldn't have it. made
up my mind that his sense of humor
was Sigh tly lopsidcd.
Within month after the first issue
appeared semi-wcclsly stage line and
Il post office were established and the
Silver World had plain rolling. We had
plenty of exchanges to clip from then,
and that gave us Inorc time for pros
pecting After working the paper off
we usually spent couple of days in
securing over the mountains and 10.
eating mining claims. Somehow or
other they didn't pan out and we would
resume the publication of the great
silver organ with q whole lot of accu-
mulated experience concerning lodes
dips, spurs, angles and adts. At one
time we had fourteen claims located.
but if steamboats, had been selling at
two cents dozen, we couldn't have
made the first payment on paddle
However, the hotels and various sd
looms advertised literally and we were