Arizona Silver Belt (Globe City, Pinal County, Ariz.) 1878-19??
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,361 issues from 1878 to 1907, published in Miami, Arizona, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Globe Arizona Silver Belt was first published on May 2, 1878. The weekly paper quickly became the dominant voice for community growth and improvement. The town of Globe emerged as an outgrowth of silver mining claims in the area beginning in 1873. First named Globe City, it was surveyed in 1876 and officially incorporated on May 1, 1878. An isolated mining camp in rugged terrain, Globe struggled to build connections to the outside world. The Arizona Silver Belt’s founding editor, Aaron H. Hackney (“the conscience” of Globe), led the fight.
As the community’s only newspaper, the Arizona Silver Belt reported on the struggles of the mining camp and was the voice for civic improvement. As such, it became an early advocate for telegraph and railroad connections, better roads, improved mail delivery, and civilizing institutions. Until the end of the Indian wars in the mid-1880s, problems with Apaches on the nearby San Carlos reservation frequently appeared in the paper. A year after the newspaper’s creation, Hackney donated the lot for Globe’s first church. The newspaper office burned down in 1884, not an uncommon occurrence in territorial Arizona, but was quickly rebuilt.
Mining, as the dominant economic activity in Globe and much of the territory, occupied a prominent place in the newspaper. Nevertheless, the Arizona Silver Belt was both comprehensive and balanced. Hackney’s comments on miners’ efforts to unionize in 1896 epitomized his unbiased approach to the news: “It…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Miami, Arizona, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress