The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-09-03

working order the work undertaken
would have been as follows:
The Republican4News1Buliet
would have been issued as q daily
in the morning and laid on peoples
doorsteps in time for breakfast. The
papers mailed out would have been
taken promptly on the merning train
and the rural routes. Nearly all
avenues of carrying mail leaving
Blackfoot in the morning, rather
than in the afternoon and evening,
at the time the papers have hereto
fore been published, so there would
be a gain of twelve or fifteen hours
over the present methods of connect
ing between the presses and the
readers. The management in the
new enterprise would have remained
very much the same as it has been
for the past year or two in The Re-
publican office, cooperative affair
in which all the workers had a voice
in planning the business and a
share in the net profits. Mr.. Knight,
the former editor and manager Of
The Daily News, was to have been
the telegraph editor for the new
undertaking, Mr.. McVicar, the man
ager of The Evening Bulletin, was
to have his choice of work in the
mechanical department and each Of
them was to have voice in the man
agement of the business. The en-
ployes, whom they desired to trans
fer to the new enterprise, were to
have positions selected according to
their qualifications. The new morn
ing daily was to have been launched
on the day after the closing of the
other two papers. The linotypes in
The News and The Bulletin offices
were to have been installed in The
Republican office, along with some
more of the equipment that would
improve the working force at The
Republican building. The rest of the
equipment in The News office and
the Bulletin office was to be placed
on sale and 200 newspaper publish
ers in the intermountain country
were to be notified of the particular
kinds and the amounts of equipment
offered in the sale so they might
come and buy. The money received
from the sale was to be applied in
any way that the owners desired,
either in the payment of debts or to
be invested as part of the capital
in the new venture. By closing the
other two offices, the owners of those
enterprises were enabled to invest
| their capital at par in the new un-
dertaking, against Mr.. Trego's cap
ital- invested ten and fifteen years
ago, which has increased in valupe
up to the present time. This would
recompense the owners for closing
their places of business. They would
be permitted to invest their capital
in an undertaking that was expected
to pay good dividends from the
start, because of the great reduction
in the operating expenses of the
three plants operated in one was
smaller capital and more efficient
equipment there would be a great
saving in rent. The Daily News has
been paying rental of $50 a
month, and The Evening Bulletin
has been paying. rental of about
$4,000 month, varying according
to the amount of sub-leases that
we're in effect. That would make a
direct saving of 5000 a month in
rentals. Then there would be very
large saving amounting to several
hundred dollars in the cost of labor,
putting out one daily paper as COM
pared with the duplication of ex-
pense for labor, getting out two
dailies and one tri-weekly, all tell
ing in some measure the same news.
There would be large saving in the |
cost Of print paper, printing one
paper instead Of three, duplicating |
the same news. Then there would |
be savings Of thirty-six other items |
of expense listed as follows: Light,
heat, water, jaintor, bookkeeping,
reporting, typesetting, proof-reading,
makeup, press work, folding papers,
mailing papers, delivery boys, post
age, ink, machinery, furniture. taxes,
fire insurance, accident insurance,
power, telephone, telegraph, type
writer's, advertising solicitors, REIN
ing and purifying metal every week,
freight, express, charity, donations,
dues to Commercial club, metal,
labor, editing, buying country cor
respondence and typewriting country
making a total of
thirty-nine kinds of savings, by pay
ing thirty-nine kinds of bills once
instead Of paying them three times,
every month. Some of the parties
considering the matter of going into
this combination hesitated because
they did not know whether the pub
lie would approve of the consolida-
ton. They thought it might look
like an attempt to form monopoly
and encouragement might be given
to some one else to start a compe-
titive newspaper, that would split
the revenues of the business between
this new enterprise and It's competi-
torr and thorohv rnako II inenOasih1o