Arizona Weekly Enterprise (Florence, Pinal County, Arizona Territory)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
244 issues from 1881 to 1890, published in Florence, Arizona, digitised for Chronicling America.
According to Estelle Lutrell’s Newspapers and Periodicals of Arizona 1859-1911, the Arizona Weekly Enterprise was founded in Florence, Arizona, in April of 1881 with George B. Taylor as editor and business manager. The paper quickly passed into the hands of editor and manager Thomas F. Weedin, a member of the territorial legislature. Weedin would guide the paper through a long stable period, eventually selling it for $3,000, according to Those Old Yellow Dog Days: Frontier Journalism in Arizona 1859-1912. Its author William H. Lyon states that the arrival of the Enterprise in Florence indicated the paper’s importance for farming and ranching. The same could be said for the nearby town of St. John, whose paper and prosperity dried up much faster than Florence’s.
Weedin was an important figure in Arizona’s newspaper industry. In addition to serving in the territorial legislature (on the printing committee) and as the first mayor of Florence, he was also the clerk of the U.S. Court and held a number of other official positions. As editor of the Arizona Weekly Enterprise and a politician, Weedin was deeply embroiled in a printing scandal. John Marion, who established the Prescott Courier was bombarded with so much of the printing business from the territorial government that he had to subcontract out to other printers. Weedin received a substantial amount of money from Marion, some $2,500, causing the attorney general to sue, and even threaten prison, for Weedin. Despite all…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Florence, 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