Arizona republican., 1921-04-13
EARLY DAY NEWSPAPERS OFF
 STATE A VITAL FACTOR IN THE. -DEvELO OPMENT OF ARIZONA.

 tive writing in your local dailies. Here is about the way the Prescott Miner would have handled such story back in 1883: Charlie Genung is in from Peoples valley to buy some bacon. The weather is cold in his locality and there is little of news. He says that he and His neighbors were an- noyed last week by a bunch of Yav- apais who came into the valley and run off couple of mules. Genung and several other ranchers pursued and killed some of the redskins. George Brown got bad arrow wound in the shoulder" That's all It told the story. didn't it? What more do you want? Yet the Miner wouldn't even have a head on the item and it followed star local' that told some merchant had just received new goods from the coast
 The Spaniards and Mexicans did not seem to run much to journalism. The first printing press was one brought in by the way of Panama and Guaymas early in 1859 for The Arizonian. a weekly paper published at Tubac. in the Santa Cruz valley. Its main mission was the advertise ment of Salerom mines, but it was a pretty good sort of a little sheet, well edited by Ed. Cross, later by Sylvester Mowry. and with able con- tributors, among them Charles D. Poston, the pioneer poet, Arizona's s first delegate in congress. Poston died in poverty in Phoenix. I have copy of the old Arizonian. It is to be noted that it claims to be published in "Ari- zona," showing that the designation was locally applied to the land be- fore its segregation as separate unit of government. This copy, sent by friend in Minneapolis. who found it in the papers of his father, is well printed and arranged, full of live advertisements and with both local and state news. Cross and Mowry fought a bloodless duel
 The next newspaper came with the territorial government. The Miner was first issued early in 1864 at Pos ties ranch. twenty miles north of Prescott, near the present railroad station of Del Rio. The material and press came from the states in the same caravan that brought Governor Goodwin. The editor was Tisdale A. Hand. and a contributor was the new territorial secretary, Dick McCor- mick. an experienced newspaper man. When the seat of territorial govern ment and the protecting force of sol- diery moved to Prescott, the Miner went along. of course. and the pres ent Prescott Journal Miner claims le- gitimate descent therefrom. Charlie Banta helped with the first issues. The Arizonian was of much shorter life, expiring at Tucson after a year or so under the ownership of the well known pioneer, Sidney R. DeLong. You know it was founded on Pete Kitchens famous road to Sonora, on which the stations were Tucson, Tu- f,oS can TnhA11
 In Tucson, October 15, 1870, was established the Weekly Citizen, ed- ited by John Wasson, an early sur veyor general. In March of 1877. the Daily Bulletin was started in Tucson by Fully and Hughes, the first of the dailies, though only four columns to each of its four pages. It prided itself upon taking telegraph serv- ice that came when the wires were not down over the government tele- graph line across the deserts from San Diego. That was a fearful and wonderful telegraph line. strung even on giant cactus, it's wires frequently being utilized by unfeeling teamsters for wagon repairs. But it was the only direct communication with civ ilization and we valued it.
 In month or so the Daily Bulletin was succeeded by the Tri-Weekly Star. the same which still wrinkles brightly. The late Governor l.. c. Hughes was editor of the Star then and for years thereafter, while Car los H. Fully, the editor of the at tached Spanish publication, Las Dos Republicas.'' The Star was the first Democratic journal in the territory In Tucson there is good backing for ] the ancient saw that the Hast Shal l be first and the first last" for the | Citizen and the Star still survive. 1 though it has been computed that nc I less than twelve daily and twelve weekly papers have been started ana have died in the old Pueblo. In 1881 [ was employed on one of these fleet
 ing publications, the Daily Journal
 the first seven day paper ever pub
 hshed in Arizona.
 The little Washington hand pres:
 of The Arizonian, first in the South west, was used to print the Star un- l til 1879, when it was taken to Tomb stone, just then opening, by A. E Fay, for printing the first paper Q the camp. The press went througl | the Tombstone fire. It later had presentation tp the Pioneer Historica society.
 The Yuma Sentinel lays claim t,
 being the oldest paper of continuou 1 publication within Arizona. Flor ence had the Citizen for a while abou 1877, when the land office was il l that Pinal county metropolis. Tn first newspaper in Phoenix was tn
 Weekly Salt River Valley Herald ! started in January of 1878, by m,
 brother, Charles E. McClintock. tn
 first daily Herald meterializing i
 September of 1880, joining in June o 1879. The Herald finally was ab-
 sorbe into The Republican. Globe first paper, the Silver Belt, wa moved there from New Mexico b Judge A. H. Hackney in 1879. I ed ited the Chronicle in the same cam after I left Tucson.
 The names of Arizona newspaper frequently have been given with
 keen appreciation of local condition! , For instance, the great mining in dustry readily could be celebrated i such journals as Our Mineral Wealt and the Mohave Miner of Kingma1 the Prescott Journal Miner, tn, Wickenburg Miner. the Globe Silve . Belt, the Tombstone Prospecto
 Buckley O'Neill's Prescott Pick an Drill, the old Pinal Drill and the Clif l ton Copper Era. The Sentinel . Yuma, the Videtta of Nogales and th 2 IIt ernationai of Douglas natural :, are on the border watching out. Th Tombstone Epitaph had the most or posite of titles. The Sun is not ol | of place at Yuma, though anotht | paper of the same name is publishe | at the less torrid Flagstaff. The Nc | gales Oasis surely is an agreeab | name in a desert land. The Ion | stilled Voice of Casa Grande migl
 have been likened to one crying ol