Naturally, grave difficulties were encountered in publishing a paper under the conditions just outlined. Currency was scarce, but The News accepted "flour, wheat, corn meal, butter, tea, tallow, and pork" in exchange for subscriptions. For years it made its own supply of paper from rags gathered in the early settlements of Utah. Most of its foreign news was obtained from Eastern papers brought by chance visitors on their way to the California gold fields. Not infrequently it apologized for absence of such items with a note like the following: "From all the immigrants we were not able to obtain one whole paper: they were all wet, damaged or destroyed on the way." In local news it was more fortunate, for at the same time that Brigham Young established The News he founded a university, a theatrical association, and an instrumental and vocal society which flourished and spread and from which grew the University of Utah, the famous Salt Lake Theater, and the noted Tabernacle Choir of the present time. The doings of these enterprises filled many a column of The News.
The News has been continually printed at Salt Lake City, except during "The Utah War" of 1857-58 when the Governor sent an expedition to that Territory to quell the so-called "Mormon Insurrection." The Mormons moved a second time before the advance of the army, but they always took their newspaper plant with them. The press was installed in a special wagon and wherever the company camped there appeared The News. Its longest temporary stop was at Fillmore City, where the first issue dated at that place appeared on May 5, 1858. The News was printed as a weekly and later as a semi-weekly until 1867, when it came out daily. The News to-day presents a striking contrast to the little pamphlet sheet issued in 1850.
The Daily Telegraph was started in Salt Lake City on July 4, 1864. Five years later it was moved to Ogden, but was discontinued the same year (1869).
When the Pony Express reached Salt Lake City, journalism took a jump. The Mountaineer of that city on February 2, 1861, said: "We are favored by the Pony Club of this city with a copy of their telegraphic dispatches bringing dates from New York and Washington up to the 22nd ult."
