Pioneer printers have taken a great deal of interest in regard to the antecedents of this old press. Mr. George H. Himes was an Olympia boy, who served his apprenticeship in the office of the _Washington Standard_ under John Miller Murphy. From there he went to Portland and in time "Himes the Printer" became a household word in Oregon and Washington. He has of late years been prominent in the pioneer and historical societies of Oregon. He has given much time to research regarding this old press, and as a result gives it as his opinion that it was first sent from New York to Mexico, thence to Monterey, California, in 1834, where it was used by the Spanish governor for a number of years in printing proclamations, etc., and on August 15, 1846, the _Californian_, the pioneer paper of California, was printed on it. Late in 1846 it was sent from Monterey to San Francisco and used in printing the _Star_, the first paper of that city, issued in January, 1847. These two papers were combined at a later date, and in the fall of 1848 the first number of the _Alta California_ was issued from it. From San Francisco it went to Portland and the first number of the _Oregonian_ was taken off it. In 1852 it and the old plant of the _Oregonian_ was bought by Thornton F. McElroy and J. W. Wiley, who brought it around on the schooner Mary Taylor to Olympia, where the first number of the _Columbian_ was printed on it. In 1863 J. R. Watson brought it to Seattle, and December 10th the first paper, the Seattle _Gazette_, was printed on it. Again in 1865 S. L. Maxwell used it to print the earlier numbers of the _Intelligencer_. There seems to be no doubt that it was used to print the first newspapers on the Pacific Coast, the first in Monterey, San Francisco, Portland, Olympia, Seattle. Although Seattle's first paper was of much more modest proportions than any of its predecessors or contemporaries, it had the honor of starting the first daily paper in the territory, which appeared April 23, 1866, and continued to August 11th of the same year. The Western Union Telegraph line was completed to Seattle October 26, 1864, and at 4 P. M. of that date the _Gazette_ issued its "Citizen's Dispatch," giving the first published dispatch coming by wire to this place. It gave the Eastern war news to October 24th, from Kansas City and from Chattanooga of the operations of Sherman against Hood in the Atlanta campaign. Occasionally telegraphic dispatches appeared in succeeding papers, but not until about July 1, 1872, when the _Puget Sound Dispatch_ was established by Larrabee & Co., Beriah Brown, editor, was any regular publication of the press dispatches undertaken here.