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Rh Bureau News, a monthly agricultural journal of eight pages at $1 a year, which was established in 1920. It ran for two years.

The Herald and the Tribune have been jointly owned since September, 1938. The partners are H. A. Young, Marian Young (Mrs. Alton), Grimes, both of the Herald, and William McKnight of the Tribune, recent purchaser from the Kesters.

Lakeview.—The first newspaper published in southern Oregon east of the Cascade mountains was the State Line Herald, established in 1878 at Lakeview for the publication of land office notices from the newly established United States land office in that town. James H. Evans was the first register of the office, and George Conn the first receiver. C. B. Watson, who helped get the Tidings, first paper at Ashland, started eight years before, was the first editor of the State Line Herald, so named because Lakeview is only 15 miles from the California border. (128)

The plant, costing $1,000, was purchased second-hand at Camp Bidwell, California. It was a four-page six-column paper, for which the subscriber paid $3 a year.

The best story handled by the Herald, in the opinion of Mr. Watson, was the first description of Crater Lake ever published. The Oregon Historical Society has a copy of the issue containing this article, and part of it was reprinted in Walling's History of Southern Oregon. Mr. Watson did not remain long in journalism but rounded out an active and useful career as a public official in Oregon. Mr. Watson served as district attorney for the first judicial district, then made up of Josephine, Jackson, Klamath, and Lake counties. Retiring from office, he practiced law in Ashland. W. W. Watson, later employed by the Oregonian, was a member of the Herald's staff for some time. Mary E. Watson (later Mrs. Fuller Snelling), a member of the Herald staff, was Lake county's first newspaper woman. She worked as a typesetter on the paper for some time.

The State Line Herald building was destroyed by fire, in July, 1880, with all the files. There is a copy of the first issue in the state library at Salem.

The Lake County Examiner, established in 1879 by C. A. Cogs well and Stephen P. Moss, with Frank Coffin as editor, was similar in size and format to the Herald. Its early files also were burned in a fire which destroyed the plant in 190o, but a few copies of the early numbers are still in existence. Snelling & Cogswell are listed in the 1884 Ayer's as editors and publishers.

Both papers were printed in small type, not larger than non-