MEN OF ENTERPRISE! TAKE NOTICE! The SITKA POST Is the only Paper printed in Alaska. It is the best medium of Advertising. It circulates in Sitka, Wrangel, Stikeen, Kodiak; Portland, Oregon; San Francisco, Cal; Baltimore, Md, and Washington, D. C. Send your Advertisements to J. J. Daly Editor, Sitka Post, Sitka, A.
And there is a brief appeal at the end of the last page:
Wanted—More subscribers and contributors to this paper.
(Orders issued by the Military District of Alaska)
The Library of Congress file of the Post is in an old Library binding and extends from number 2 without break to the 14th and final number, dated June 5, 1877. The first page in the volume bears a Library date stamp of 1877. Also on the first page is the signature "M. Baker," preceded by the words "Purchased by" in a different hand. Thus the file was apparently assembled by Marcus Baker (1849-1903), a noted cartographer and writer on Alaska who was employed from 1873 to 1886 by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. Some issues are addressed in pencil to individual subscribers, three of whom can be positively identified from company muster rolls at the National Archives as members of the 4th Artillery, U.S. Army, stationed at Sitka. They are "Ord[nance] Serg[ean]t [George] Go[l]kell"; "H[enry] Train," a corporal in Company G; and "W[illiam] J. Welch," a bugler in Company G.
[142] See Valerian Lada-Mocarski, "Earliest Russian Printing in the United States," in Homage to a Bookman; Essays ... Written for Hans P. Kraus (Berlin, 1967), p. 231-233.
[143] See no. 3525 in The Celebrated Collection of Americana Formed by the Late Thomas Winthrop Streeter (New York, 1966-69), vol. 6.
[144] See ibid., no. 3531.