Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1892-04-01

buuuul' advertising fapeS were one
dollar per line, set in BREWER. 1t 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 committed On
Sundays we covered the press and cases
with canvas tents and gave up the of.
fee for a 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 mustang with
a 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 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 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 in reaching Del Norte.
Then it took him three days to return
to Lake City. In the meantime | had
ground out enough matter for the sec
ond issue and volunteer corps of com.
positors had put it In 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-fve mile ride. He gave one
look at the form and exclaimed
you're an elegant bloomin' lot OF
buffers. Eff you'uns wor assayed for
brains there wouldn't be trace"
We had made up 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 a piece
about "A Newspaper Chump' that re.
Elected on myself. 1t was highly
humorous article and Woods claimed
that it would increase the circulation.
Woods afterwards left the office door
open one day while he went up tc
Arcade saloon to collect a bill and a
Mexican jackass walked in and ate up
half the issue that had been printed.
/ wanted to write humorous article on
the subject, "a Newspaper Jackass, "
but Woods wouldn't have ii. I made
up my mind that his sense Of humor
was Sigh tly lopsided.
Within month after the first issue
appeared semi-weekly stage line and
q post Office were established and the
ESilver 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 10.
eating mining claims. Somehow OF
other they didn't pan out and we would
resume the publication of the great
silver organ with whole lot of accu
mulated experience concerning lodes,
dips, spurs, angles and adits. 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 sa.
looms advertised literally and we were