Sierra County Advocate (Kingston, N.M.)
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1,611 issues from 1885 to 1917, published in Kingston, New Mexico, digitised for Chronicling America.
Sierra County, New Mexico, was founded in 1884, the result of a boom in population after silver and gold were discovered. Several towns were founded along Percha Creek in the Black Range including Hillsboro (originally spelled Hillsborough) in 1877 and Kingston in 1882. Hillsboro, a gold mining town, became the county seat in 1884. The Kingston area was rich in silver. Newspaperman James E. Curren established weekly newspapers in both towns.
Curren, formerly proprietor of the Deming Headlight sought to establish a chain of small newspapers in the Percha country mining camps. The Sierra County Advocate, “Published in the Heart of the Percha Country; Richest Mining District in New Mexico,” was first produced in Kingston in 1884 with Curren serving as editor. The paper’s offices were relocated to Hillsboro in March 1885.
Shortly after the move, Curren left the management of the Sierra County Advocate to W. B. Hardwicke, although Curren continued in the newspaper business, establishing the Folsom Idea in 1888 and acquiring the Clayton Enterprise in 1890.
Focusing on mining, the Sierra County Advocate produced articles and news notes about mine production, ore quality, and smelting operations. Railroads were closely tied to the mining industry; therefore, the paper contained abundant coverage of railroad business. A regular column, “Territorial Gleanings,” contained brief news items from around New Mexico.
Political news, both national and state, was also important. In the…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Kingston, 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