Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1897-04-27
LOSING Its GRIP.
Reno BeginninF to Part With its
Cid Reputation


home Industry. But of late the peo-
pie who always pulled together have
fallen out and each faction is sending
its money ont of town 50 that the Other
faction will not get hold Of it The
CARTE has the following to cay about
the way the people treat their county
papers:
1t would seem but right that when
the county officers, city fathers, or
business men generally, had any pat
rOnage 20 be5tOw, they wOnid make
one hand wash the other, so to speak,
by living the county papers The pat
ronage instead of sending to San
Francisco, and in many instances as
far as Oregon to get their bill and
letter heads. We remember year OIL
SO ago that the county officers gave a
travelling man from Oregon an order
for printing, and when the box came
there was a lot Of material, letter
heads, bill heads and envelopes in it
for merchants and hotel men. Such
short sighted business policy will
sooner or later tell on the town, and
we think that it is beginning TO show
itself already. Merchants are not
doing the business that the location
and environments warrants, and it is
barely possible that the farmers are
sending to Oregon for many Of their
supplies. Then again there is to
much jealousy among business men,
and the town is by the ears half the
time on some short bit transaction.
In the meantime We will remind
them that the newspapers in San
Francisco and Oregon are not lying
awake nights thinking up something
t 0 write about that will benefit Reno
and the State of Nevada.
The journal continues 10 the same
strain:
The Gazette's editorial last evening
is timely and if read and considered
carefully there isn't a person in Reno
but what will admit the argument
therein. If the two papers here were
~ SoLip oho w TX ooh1S iNoij L
iniure men in business that some
business men use in iniurlng the two
papers, there would be several doors
closed inside of thirty days. 1t is true
ard neither paper attempts to deny it,
that in certain instances there are
someskinds Of printing that a be
procured cheaper at San Francisco,
Kansas City, or Portland Oregon.
than in Reno. The same might be
said regarding wearing apparel,
boots and shoes, and groceries as well
az many other necessaries. House
and store rent, taxes, and fire insur-
ance is about the only thing that can
not be obtained abroad at less cost
but if the press of the town is frozen
out, even these will fall far below the
present standard.
year ago where a man came here
from a certain city c~anvassiDg fol-
job work and from the time OF his ar
rival in the morning until the next
way at LOOH liz IoCh Vtto "OLlu VI
orders III town, taking a SIS order
from One business man in Reno whC
owe both local offices and who de-
clines to pay his bills on the ground
Of hard times. Is this a proper spirit:
There isn't a piece Of job work needed
q the town but what one Office or the
other could get out. or to use a bank
ing expression. our correspondents
could be consulted" and a slight com
mission made on the transaction.
Suppose thai the two papers would
start in and quote San Francisco and
Sacramento prices per mail orders OF
in quantity in any line. wouldn't
there be a howl throughout the town.
1t is anticipat d that some will say
this a bluff aud that We are squealing
but admitting this, truth is a hard
thing down and there is 40 abundance
Of truth in the first part Of ll.Is article
worth consideration on tie part OF
our tO~wnspeople.
The Journal hits the Dail on the
head in the last paragraph when il
talks of quoting San Francisco prices.
Reno has two excellent newspapers
and they have brought people there &c
invest and the town has been the
gamer by it. TIE newspapers Of a
town are the best index of its business
and good live newspapers bring bust
ness to a town.
People Of Carson complain OF the
somewhat Indifferent quality Of its
newspapers. No one will claim that
the papers published here are as good