p. 21 | From the Pacific Press by N. Z. T.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 14, 1911

From the Pacific Press

By N. Z. T.

From a private letter written by Brother C. H. Jones, manager of the Pacific Press Publishing Association, we extract the following items, which we are sure will be read with interest by all our brethren and sisters:—

“These have been busy days with us here at the Pacific Press. Never before have we been so crowded with work, and never in all my life have I seen so much work piled up ahead of us. We have just finished the following:—

Great Controversy, English . . . . . 10,000 Practical Guide to Health . . . . . . 10,000 Home and Health, Spanish . . . . . 5,000 Patriarchs and Prophets, English 5,000 Patriarchs and Prophets, Swedish 3,000 House We Live In . . . . . . . . 5,000 Those Bible Readings . . . . . . . 5,000 Last-Day Tokens . . . . . . . . . . 3,000 Christian Science . . . . . . . . . 5,000

“And we now have in hand the following:—

Great Controversy, German. Coming King, Spanish. Christian Education Reader, Nos. 5 and 6. God’s Advanced Guard — a 400-page book by Brother Howell. Acts of the Apostles, by Sister White, about 600 pages. Missions number of the Signs of the Times, 500,000 copies.

“All this in addition to our regular work, such as the Signs of the Times, Little Friend, Pacific Union Recorder, etc. During the first five months of this year, we shipped out over ten tons of books per month, and in July twenty-four tons; and in addition, between one and two tons of periodicals each month.

“We have been obliged to go back to the old standard of working ten hours a day in all departments, and some of our machines have been running from twelve to fifteen hours a day. This rush is not in any one department, but extends all through the institution from the type-room on down to the photoengraving department, electrotype foundry, press-room, folding-room, bindery and shipping department. We have been obliged to call in ten or fifteen employees, in order to keep up with the demand. It is wonderful the way the work is going.

“A day or two ago we received another order from South America for 1,100 copies of ‘Patriarchs and Prophets,’ Spanish, and 300 of ‘Coming King.’

“We have already printed over 300,000 copies of the first sixteen pages of the Missions number of the Signs of the Times. We will keep our contract to have 500,000 copies printed and bound ready for mailing by the first of October. Five cylinder presses are in constant operation, in addition to our Webb perfecting press, which is printing the Missions Signs at the rate of about 40,000 copies a day.”

N. Z. T.