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234 numbers of El Crepusculo were issued and these were on paper the size of foolscap. The paper failed to pay expenses and was suspended after the four issues.

The first newspaper, however, to be printed in English, either in whole or in part, was The Santa Fé Republican. This paper was a four-page weekly in two parts—two in Spanish and two in English—and made its appearance in Santa Fé on September 4, 1847. Its publishers were Hovey and Da vies and its editor, G. R. Gibson.

The New Mexican was started at Santa Fé on December 1, 1849, by Davies and Hones. This paper, however, is not to be confused with the present New Mexican, started by Charles Leiv on January 22, 1863.

The first paper in Iowa was The Dubuque Visitor, brought out at the Dubuque Lead Mines, at that time in Wisconsin Territory, by John King on May 11, 1836. He had founded the Dubuque Lead Mine in 1834 and was satisfied that the little village would grow and become a prosperous city. Having purchased in Cincinnati a hand-press, some type, and material sufficient to issue a small weekly paper, he returned to Dubuque. William Carey Jones, a young printer from Chillicothe, accompanied King to take charge of the mechanical side of the paper. On June 3, 1837, a new owner changed the title to The Iowa News, and the name of the paper was again changed on August 1, 1841, to The Miner's Express. When on April 19, 1851, a new publication, The Dubuque Herald, appeared, The Miner's Express made preparation to bring out a daily paper. On August 19 of that year it published the first daily paper north of St. Louis or west of the Mississippi. The Herald met this move by also changing to a daily paper and the competition became so keen between the two that a merger became necessary and on October 26, 1854, the two papers united under the title, The Daily Express and Herald— later changed to The Daily Herald. On August 27, 1901, the paper absorbed The Dubuque Daily Telegraph. The paper is now continued as The Telegraph and Herald.