Southwest-Sentinel (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
195 issues from 1892 to 1896, published in Silver City, New Mexico, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Southwest Sentinel was published between March 10, 1883, and May 1896, in Silver City, New Mexico. It usually appeared weekly although it was published semiweekly between March 10, 1883, and December 29, 1885, and daily between September 1887 and June 1888. For the first eleven issues, the paper was called the South-west Sentinel. On July 5, 1892, the paper stated in the heading that it offered “First Class Job Work,” while the editorial page indicated that the Sentinel was the “official paper of Silver City.” A reader could get a subscription for one year for $3.00, six months for $1.75, or three months for $1.00. Advertising rates ran one inch for one issue for $1.00, one inch for one month for $2.00, or one inch for one year for $12.00.
The railroad’s arrival in Silver City and the inexpensive shipping it provided spurred the growth of mining activities in the region. The town’s population grew rapidly and included a number of journalists who founded eight newspapers between 1879 and 1883. The Mining Life was the first paper published at the mining camp in 1873. The Grant County Herald, a weekly established in 1877, experienced intense competition from a daily paper beginning in March 1880. It responded by publishing the Daily Southwest, although the latter was suspended six months later. The Grant County Herald changed its name to the New Southwest and Grant County Herald, and the paper was enlarged in April 1881 to compete with two short-lived challengers, the…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Silver City, New Mexico, 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