CHICAGO, March 6.
To Papers taking Reports: An arrangement has been entered into with the Associated Press, whereby we secure the making up of a report by their agent here with the especial regard to the wants of the Western papers, and which will be sent to Western papers exclusively. This report will be made up from the reports of their agents at St. Louis, Cairo, and other points of interest as the army proceeds South. All the news in the Chicago evening papers, which these reports have not sent, will also be sent the same night as soon as published. Also all news in the morning papers, specials which the Associated Press have not sent, will be furnished in the morning reports. It is believed that the news form the western reporters, which will be sent you for publication the same morning such news is published here, together with what the agent here will be able to collect, will be all the Western papers can ask or desire. These reports will commence on Monday next, when the special dispatches we now send in full from the Chicago papers will be stopped, as also the special rates charged for sending them. Any paper wishing to increase their news facilities beyond this, by telegraph, will have to do it through reporters of their own – on which dispatches a liberal reduction will be made in proportion to the number of words sent per month.
Hoping this will be satisfactory I remain respectfully,
Yours,
E. D. L. SWEET, Supt.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, March 7, 1862, p. 1
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