The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-08
COULDN'T KEEP STILL.


company launched a newspaper il
Blackfoot, promising to conduct the
business on such principles that the cir
culation of the paper would build III
within twelve months to equal the circu
lation of itstwo local competitors com
bined.
In this particular it made good in the
nineth month. The circulation was still
farther increased on the sample and
circular plan till it exceeded 1900 but
necessarily many of these last ones who
were on the mailing list could not be
counted bona tide subscribers, and a
house to house canvass was made to de-
termine just who were the Indifferent
fellows who would accept the paper at
the post office but would object to pay
ing for it. All such names were prompt
ly stricken from the mailing list as soon
as discovered. The country was can
yassed from Goshen to Ross Fork and
from Otis to Woodvile in the Snake
River Valley. Also a careful canvass was
made of the Lost River country, and in
all this territory every man or woman
who would put up money or promise or
note for the paper was placed on the
list. A ii others were left off When
we speak of our circulation or our mail
ing list, we refer to those people who have
arranged to receive the paper and pay
for it.
Our contemporary, the Southern Ida
no Mail, has been making and publish
ing statements to the effect that it has
the largest circulation in the county,
and advertisers are asking if this is true.
So many inquiries have come to this
office and so many pert locals have been
published in the Mail, which the public
interpret as casting reflections on the
methods of handling the printing of the
Republican, that indifference to its mis-
statements and ignoring it's damaging
iiiAcicHCtS ccdSeS w De virtue. we
want to say that those who wish infor-
nation as to how and where we print.
are invited to visit the Office Thursdays
and Fridays to be shown, and at the
same time they may watch the opera
tons Of our mailing machine. Those
who wish may take copies of the whole |
mailing list home with them. We keep
a copy hung in the window which we
reprint once a week to keep it correct
with the week additions or changes.
The list this week. as printed from
last fridays mailing, has total of 1858
names, and we print about 30 copies
more each week than enough to supply
this list Since the manager of the
Mail has gone to the advertisers with SO
many big stories about his unequalIed
circulation we feel justified in asking I
ust how many papers he prints f none
If his sheets of paper get torn before
getting through the press does he print
Isl copies? His circulation has not
gained in the past five months, but it s
ought to for he is improving the paper
The Bingham County Democrat has I
lso been "shying pebbles" at the Re v
publican, but we rather like the free ad-
ertising they gave us, and we will
ot tell the public what their circulation
5, because we printed their paper for
everal weeks last summer, and "business
5 business so we keep theirsecrets. We .
now what their circulation is however.
The average reader does not care
'hether publisher prints thousand ;,
+ million copies. but the advertisers
'ho buy space and circulation for their E.
are entitled to know !,
hat they are getting and whether the
aper is forced on to people or whether =
1ey buy it because they prize it. '
For the information of those who are .,
lterested we will state that 341 copies
the Republican are delivered by the
ty carrier and through the Blackfoot
ost Office, 1872 by the rural carriers. 1899
re distributed from the surrounding OF
ices, few 60 to Boise. Salt Lake and
her places whose trade is not tribu "
Try to Backfoot, and the rest 90 out to p
WINS along the Mackay Branch and its a
ibutary stage lines. fe
If the Mail wants more information h
)out it's own business methods, it can
IT it by calling at this Office or by nag IN
ng us just once with one line local. III
AFFIDAVIT. ~
Byrd Trego, first being duly sworn, cl
poses and says that he is publisher of nj
he Idaho Republican, and that the 10
ma hde circulation of the paper as +b
own by the books and mailing ma III
line on Friday December LIST. 1905. was fo
ne Thousand and Fifty Three Il .OA},. v1
d that this number of copies was ~,
allied and delivered IN the regular way h,
patrons. The total number of copies th
lnted during the year from December