Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-06-14
ANOTHER FORWARD STRIDE.

Friends Of the Deseret News VIII DC
pleased 10 read the evidence Of its
prosperity contained in the announce
mens on another page The fact that
II has reached position whore new,
modern lightning press has become a
necessity and its ability TO give an
order for the first Hoe yet brought into
the lntermountain region, speak as
conyincingly 40 columns could do OF
The growth progress and present condi-
ton Of the institution The press Is
nsw being constructed in the New
ynk factory OF n. Hoe & Co.. and It
VIII be put in place in the basement Of
the new Deseret News building, where
It's marvels can be plainly viewed by
the public. Those who have stood on
Herald square, New York, and seen
the Hoe presses of the New York Her
aid at work, Will not need 90 be told
that the operations OF this wonderful
piece Of machinery viii form one Of
the most interesting sights imagln-
able. A complete description Of the
new Hoe with Illustrations. viii be
found on another page OF this issue.
The date makes this not an uniting
time to present such an evidence of the
News progress as that contained in
the foregoing paragraph
TIfty-two years ago tomorrow, on
'une l5 1850, the first number Of the
Deseret News was printed. The paper,
q facsimile Of the front page OF which
IL printed elsewhere, was a very mod
est affair, and In many respects crude, |
but the present generation can scarcely
realize with, what Jog and pride il was
greeted by the citizens OF Great salt
Lake CITY and welcomed by those VINO
had pushed out and settled In llm c0un.
ties adjacent A valuable feature Of |
the Deseret News establishment today
Is the bound volumes OF all It's igsues
since the FIRST and among the interest.
ing contents Of the first issue Is found
e prospectus headed with the motto
Truth and Liberty which has ever
since remained at the head Of the pa.
per; the proceedings In the United
States Senate. nearly three months
prior. are given In paragraph. Messrs
Seward, Hale and Chase being the
chief speakers. President Zachary
raylor's message to Congress. dated
Ian. 22, 1850, Is reproduced In full from
he New York Tribune; a brief MOTTO
" the death Of Oliver cowder, at
Richmond. Ray County Mo-. on March
|, 1850, Is given concert Is announced
n "the Bowery." and the editor prints
list of those who had arrived IN aed
departed from Salt Lake bound for IN
gold fields, aud who thought.
MY left behind a subscription order
Or the Deseret News
When the first number Of the Desoret
'ews was turned out 50 years aso Ia.
borrow. Salt Lake City was not quite
40 years old; II was 1000 miles to her
earest eastern neighbor She was i1- :
eed In the heart OF the wild and wool. +,
west, and Il may be Imagined that !
le setting up Of printing d
fess aud the issuance Of a q
aper IN such a region
as hailed as an event little short of O.
onderfui by the Pioneers of those !,
,ys.
When the flrst number OF the News "
as printed, Zachary Taylor was n
esident Of the United states. Vlcto- ~
had only been reigning In England 81
irteen years, slavery was flourish I,
institution In the United States C,
d apparently no one dreamed that
would be disturbed; the war be. NJ
cen the unhed states and Mexico in
q Just ended; Dickens. Thackeray. pr
q Bulwer were astounding the world IN
n the carnations OF their genius: ar
MEL Webster and Henry Clay were
their prime; telegraphy and rail- on
ding were in their Infancy: the sa
an cable was nnheard OF: the tele- Il,
'ne, the monograph, lighting by ad
'trcity--such things. n mooted, co
aid have been greeted as the yapor- yo
8 Of a crazy brain; Chicago was a m,
7 of'S0OOo inhabitants; San Francis be,
was just springlng up as the re- pa
Of the discovery Of gold two years by
ore; Denver. Omaha and Kansas am
: we're yet to be born, while the tia
II Iniermountain region, which now ref
ports millions Of souls. was a eoun- ma
unknown and unoxplored. looked tina
n as forbiidIng region. and one pro
ch even so eminent an authority bla
Daniel Webster had pronounced as and
ins UNDER the especial curse Of tina
lsdence or
'thing could have better illustrated gan
foresight and wisdom OF Presl- Lin
Brigham Young and his associ- the
as well as their determination But