150 Years 1887-1901 The Dalles THE DECADES OF HISTORY PART THREE OF THE DALLES CHRONICLE’S TEN-PART SERIES. April 27, 2007 Page 4 MOUNTAINEER CALLS IT QUITS SSUSPENSION OF DAILY TIMES-MOUNTAINEER – With last night’s issue, November 30th, the DAILY TIMES-MOUNTAINEER suspended publication until such time as the business and population of The Dalles shall, in the opinion of the publisher, justify resumption. Mr. Douthit gives as his reason for suspension the fact that for some years he has been running the daily at a loss. The announcement is no surprise to those who are in any measure familiar with the cost of getting out a daily paper in a town of four to five thousand inhabitants where the metropolitan papers are received a few hours after their publication and where the field is divided between two rivals. ¶ Were The Dalles situated a hundred or a hundred and fifty miles further from the metropolis the situation would be materially different, but even then two daily papers could only with great difficulty be made to pay. As it is, and has been during all the years of the existence of two daily papers in this city, neither of them could have kept its head above water for a month if it had been compelled to subsist on its won [sic] income.¶ Each had to draw its life-blood from the income of the weekly or job office, and not infrequently the necessities of the daily absorbed all that was derived from the two other sources. Even with the entire field left as it now is to the DAILY CHRONICLE, its circulation and income will have to increase materially before it can be considered an independent paying proposition. This is not said in any spirit of complaining but as justification of the wisdom of Mr. Douthit’s movement. One daily paper may be made to pay in The Dalles; two never could. ¶ The DAILY CHRONICLE will do its best to cover that part of the field that has been abandoned by the suspension of the DAILY TIMES-MOUNTAINEER. It will make no change in the generous treatment hitherto accorded to its patrons, and will take no undue advantage of its having the whole field to itself. December 1, 1890 Editor’s note: The MOUNTAINEER continued publication for five more years as a weekly, rather than daily newspaper. Incoming and Outgoing messages protected by Trend Micro PC-cillin program