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Cataloger writes:I can't remember now if the titles were connected in the existing OCLC
records. But in any case, I decided to connect Ranch (North Yakima, Wash.)
(.b57920357) to Ranche and range (.b57920503) because:
1) The issues for June 10, 1897- were called new ser. v. 1, no. 10- and also
old ser. v. 3 , no. 43-. I was puzzled by the double numbering, but then I
counted things out on calendars for 1894-1897 and saw that yes, the June 10,
1897 issue would indeed have been v. 3, no. 43 of Ranch. I put a note in
the bib record about the double numbering in a 515 field.
2) They were both published in North Yakima.
3) Ranch (Seattle, Wash.) (.b4083895x), which is most definitely the title
that continues Ranche and range, has the very same slogan that appears on
Ranch (North Yakima, Wash.): "A journal of the land and the home in the New
West."
The double numbering:
The last known issue of the old "Ranch" 1894-08-18, vol 1 issue 31. Using a
In the 1897-05-27 issue of Ranch and Range (2 issues before the parallel numbering starts) a publisher's announcement appears: "The Times-Argus subscription list has been sold to Miller Freeman...and he is hearby authorized to collect all delinquent subscriptions due the Times Argus up to May 21, 1897 and hereby agrees to carry out all unexpired subscriptions to said newspaper" Later in the same issue: "by absorption of the Yakima Times-Argus, Ranche and Range has added eight hundred new names to its list this week." I have not found any bibliographic records for the Yakima Times-Argus, but a single issue of the Yakima Argus has survived. This issue is dated 1896-04-02 vol 2 no 25. If Times-Argus continued with the Argus numbering after the merger, and assuming that the paper produced one issue per week and 52 issues per volume, the 1897-06-10 issue of the Times-Argus would have been vol 3 no 35. On this date the Ranche and Range indicates that the "old series" number was vol 3 no 43. This is not the same number, but it is closer than the old "Ranch" number would have been, plus there is a clear motive for including this parallel numbering system. Freeman was under a financial obligation to carry out the unexpired subscriptions to the Times-Argus. By printing the old series alongside the new numbers Freeman could keep track of when the old subscriptions ran out and also clearly communicate that information to the old subscribers. The parallel numbering system was suspended at the end of 1897.
