The Arizona Copper Camp (Ray, Ariz.)
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274 issues from 1915 to 1920, published in Ray, Arizona, digitised for Chronicling America.
Walter Lyon and Frank Lovett started the Arizona Copper Camp in Ray, Arizona in February 1910, as reported by the Daily Arizona Silver Belt. Ray, Arizona was a company town of the Ray Consolidated Copper Company. In 1913, the Arizona Republican, which sometimes reprinted news items from the Copper Camp, described it as a “small but interesting paper.” By 1915, the newspaper was published by the Ray Publishing Company. No editor or editorial staff was named, but T.S. Jacobs, who had worked for Ray Consolidated, was listed as “Local Representative.” Over the next five years, five other men served as local representatives, with Jacobs returning in late 1919 and staying on until the newspaper ceased at the end of 1920.
The newspaper mainly covered mining news from around the state and functioned as a booster for the industry and the town. The article “Whoop ‘er Up For Ray” boasted that “Ray is the best mining camp in the state of Arizona to live in. There is not a miner who is familiar with conditions in Ray and in other camps of Arizona who will not say that such is the case.” For a few years, the slogan of the newspaper, posted above the title, was: “In the Heart of the Mining District—The Second Largest Proven Body of Copper Ore in the World.” This changed at the end of 1916 to: “In the Heart of the Great Superior—Ray—Christmas Mineral Belt.” News about the local baseball teams and the Tri-Copper League also dominated the headlines; detailed reporting of the games was…
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- Ray, Arizona, United States
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- English
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- Chronicling America
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