Mohave County Miner (Mineral Park, A.T. [Ariz.])
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,801 issues from 1882 to 1918, published in Mineral Park, Arizona, digitised for Chronicling America.
Anson H. Smith published the first issue of the weekly Mohave County Miner in the back of Hyde’s Drug Store in Mineral Park, the county seat, on November 5, 1882. Edited by druggist James J. Hyde, the seven-column newspaper was printed on one of the first Chicago stop-cylinder presses ever manufactured. Charles W. Beach, publisher of Prescott’s Weekly Arizona Miner had arranged the purchase for Smith in Phoenix. Because Smith had originally come to Arizona as a miner, the Mohave County Miner initially focused more on mining than politics. Mohave was a Republican county, so Smith, although himself a Democrat, announced in his first editorial that the paper would be “devoted to the interests of the Republican Party,” adding, however, that “but a very small portion of our columns will be devoted to political discussion.”
One year to the day from the first issue of the Mohave County Miner, Smith married Nellie Hughes, the daughter of his mining partner. The couple had 10 children and 19 grandchildren and lived to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. Smith, who liked to play faro, won enough money from Kingman’s “Judge” James Reed Russell to erect a building on Beale Street for his publication. It was said that Smith returned to the game whenever he needed more money to finance construction and that he reveled when Judge Russell walked by the newspaper’s office and said, “I helped Anse put up that building.”
After relocating in 1885 to Kingman, a burgeoning town along the…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Mineral Park, Arizona, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
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- 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.
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- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
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- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
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- Library of Congress