day to talk with Hinton, of which conversation the latter
says:

" Mr. George was talking of going East to settle. I
had read his pamphlet, 'Our Land and Land Policy,'
and was taken with it, believing its author showed
marked ability. In talking with him about it and other
things, I asked him why he did not start a newspaper.
He replied that he had no money; to which I said that
anybody could start one with money, but that the diffi-
cult and commendable achievement was to start one
without it. I had no thought about entering upon such
an enterprise myself, as I was getting a good living out
of the job-printing establishment of Mahan & Co., of
which firm I was a partner. I made the suggestion
to Mr. George simply because at the time he had no
employment. Yet as a result of this casual conversa-
tion, the idea catching fire in his mind, I found myself
before long getting into the thing, though even then I
purposed to stay only until it should be set on its feet,
planning then to withdraw. Three of us entered into
an equal partnership -- George, who was to be editor;
myself, who was to superintend the printing; and A. H.
Rapp, a member of my job-printing firm; who was to
be business manager. We got together about $1,800
and this and some more that we got in by the sale in
advance of delivery routes, constituted all the capital
we had with which to start a daily newspaper. We lost
no time, and on Monday, December 4, 1871, the first
copy of the 'Daily Evening Post' appeared, with Hin-
ton, Rapp & Co. as publishers, and Henry George as
editor. Our office was at 605 Montgomery Street, west
side, a few doors north of Clay."

Following the example of very successful newspapers in
the East, the price was set at one cent a copy, it being
the first penny paper west of the Rocky Mountains. In-
deed, the cent piece was not in commercial use on the
Pacific Coast, so that it had to be introduced specially;

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