Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1892-01-06
1 MERCHANTS COMPLAINT


card from leading merchant in this
city VINO seems to be getting weary
of the flock OF xe.rspapers that is
settling down in the town OF Car
son
There IS. some thing almost moons
prthehep~ib'e in the history of Car
son Journalistic. 1t has proven the
Potters field of more newspapers
than amy other town in the State;
yet wLel a person suddenly be-
lieves that lie has received "call'
from on high to start newspaper, he
makes a bee line for Carson with an
old PIE an handful Of type and
opens his office.
The APPEAL was the first paper
ever started in Carson. We believe
that it still survives A few years
later the Tribune was started as an
evening paper and 1t still survives
because there is room for two papers
in Carson.
Sine. the first number of the APP
PEAL was published, twelve neNspa
pers which have been launched with
the idea of killing one or the other
of the old papers, have been started
and gone to the bone yard
We do not believe that there are
five MEN in the city who can give
the names of over half of them.
Most of these papers have been starts
ed by 'cliques, who, having. some
grievance aga INST paper already
established, decided to put up few
thousand dollars and run it out.
After sinking their li,tie pots of
money, they realized the sad fact
that clique cannot support
newspaper and the vast army of pa>
irons who were aching so hard to
support a new paper, do not seem to
materialize after few months and
the publisher who expected to run
the politics Of the pla-e and reap a
harvest of dollars is obliged to give
up his venture, good deal lighter
in pocket, but considerably richer in
experience than he was when he
started.
There are three amateur journals
published in Carson: the Weekly, |
the Press and the News.
They are al edited with such de-
gree OF excellence that it would be
hard to say which was really the
best. They are newsy and bright
and amuse the people who read them
but they do not fill long felt want
and the business portion Of the CONS
-munity look upon them with fear
ard trembling AMI recognize in this
only the advance guard of an army
of amateur journals that is about to
come flocking into the city, to take a
peck at them.
A few crows in corn6eld do not
really amount to much but when
they bring in their train few thous-
and it makes the chills run down the
armer's back.
At the present writing two more
papers are talked Of in this city, and
ifPine Nut and the South End
mines come out all right there is a
man here who thinks Of starting a
mining journal.
In few months no block will be
complete without little newspaper
in one corner of it, each levying toll
upon the merchants of the city. The
town is SO full of newspaper writer's
that the property of holding an eds
torial convention in this city, atten-
led by Carson writer's and publishers
only, suggests itself.
This might also include the private
hackers of the various journalistic
ventures, who for reasons best known
to themselves do not seem to have
confidence in their progeny
to acknowledge their parentage.
We can only commend to our
readers the open capdor of young
Lee, who, when he flung his banner
to the breeze, said plainly to the
populacs that he did not think there
was any loud call for another paper
in Carson, and he was in the field be-
cause lie wanted the stuff.
There is an honest ring about this
youths declarations, that ought to
commend itsalf ~ Iba ,ororo1 ,,,,b