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Title info
   Digitization plan
   History
   Essay Draft
      Essay Notes
   Research
Reel
   Notes
   Evaluation
      Totals



Title info

1902-01-09

1902-01-09

  • Ayer Annual1 Not listed
    • Publish day: Thursdays
    • Content: Agriculture
    • Established: 1894
    • Pages: 16-20
    • Size: 11 x 13 in
    • Editor:
    • Publisher:
  • Frequency: weekly, then semi-monthly
  • Coverage
    • Region: South Cascades, Statewide
    • County: Yakima
  • Unique ids
    • LCCN: 2007252175; 2007252185; sn98047754; sn98047755
    • OCLC: 226861055

Digitization plan

2008-2009 grant
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History


Essay Draft

According to his memoirs, Miller Freeman had only $3.00 and a bicycle when he decided to start his own newspaper in 1897. At the age of twenty-one, Miller was the last of his siblings to leave the shadow of his father, Legh Freeman, who had published numerous small papers while moving the family westward. Miller had learned printing while working on the Frontier Index FORMATTER ERROR (":" and "&" not supported in Page Names) (also known as the "Press on Wheels") and most recently the Washington Farmer FORMATTER ERROR (":" and "&" not supported in Page Names). When Legh refused to pay Miller for his continued work on the papers, Miller decided to leave the family enterprise and start his own.

Though the Washington Farmer was ostensibly an agricultural journal, Legh Freeman had employed it as a political organ supporting William Jennings Bryant. Young Miller, who had witnessed the struggle to found the state agricultural college, saw that there was a need for a publication devoted to the scientific advancement of agricultural practice. He also decided to make his new venture apolitical. He arranged to print his Ranche and RangeFORMATTER ERROR (":" and "&" not supported in Page Names) on the printing press of the Yakima Republic FORMATTER ERROR (":" and "&" not supported in Page Names) when it was idle. His paper soon made a profit and he promptly moved from North Yakima, Washington to Seattle.

Not long after moving to Seattle in 1897, Miller Freeman changed the name of his publication to the Ranch. In 1903 he founded Pacific Fisherman FORMATTER ERROR (":" and "&" not supported in Page Names). He sold the Ranch for a brief period between 1908-1910 to Leonard Fowler of Wenatchee. A discussion with a business colleague led him to reconsider his decision and to entertain the idea of starting a regional agricultural paper franchise. He bought back the the Ranch and renamed it the Washington FarmerFORMATTER ERROR (":" and "&" not supported in Page Names). He also purchased the Oregon Agriculturalist and Gem State Rural, renaming them the Oregon Farmer and Idaho Farmer. During this period he also started Pacific Motorboat. The management of the three agricultural papers became very onerous and Freeman found that his true interest was in the industrial papers. In 1915 Freeman sold the three agricultural papers to the publisher of the Spokesman Review of Spokane, Washington.

note to Ralph: This Washington Farmer is the The Washington farmer. (Yakima, Wash.) 1884-1899, but due to an error in the LC database I was unable to look up the number.There does seem to be a record for it, though! It should not be confused with the later Washington Farmer

Essay Notes

Heuterman p 32: Yakima Publishing company (CP Wilcox, EH Libby, WH Wilcox, George N Tuesley) published the Yakima Republic and the Ranch, which "first came off the Herald press January 18, 1894."
  • There is a lot about the history of this paper in Heuterman's thesis.
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Research

  1. Heuterman. A history of newspapering in Yakima, Washington. 1961 masters thesis.
  2. Freeman, Miller. The memoirs of Miller Freeman 1875-1955. 1956 The founder of the Ranche and Range/The Ranch.

  1. N.W. Ayer & Son's American newspaper annual -- fill in year -- fill in page
  2. NDNP Candidate Title List (Appendix A1.2)
  3. Chronicling America record (LOC) - The ranch. (North Yakima, Wash.) 1894-189?
  4. Chronicling America record (LOC) - Ranche and range. : (North Yakima, Wash.) 1897-1902 )
  5. Chronicling America record (LOC) - The ranch. (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914
  6. Chronicling America record (LOC) - The Washington Farmer (1914-1971)
  7. WorldCat record - Ranch
  8. UW record - Ranch

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Reel

  • Filmed by: UW
  • Positives held by: UW
  • Negatives held by: UW
  • Holdings list:

Notes

newspaper-like, covers the farming industry across the state with backfiles for 1894, and 1897-1914 on 8 reels for a total of 5,050 pages (if I'm reading the paperwork on it correctly). Published in Seattle on a biweekly-then-weekly basis, on newsprint, excellent clarity, tabloid size - gpearson, 2008/09/30 16:01

Evaluation

See Ranch eval spreadsheets (Google)

Totals



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