Year: 1873

The Daily Arizona Miner appeared De-

 cember l, as per announcement-the ma

 terial points of which we copy into THE

 CITIZEN. The paper presents good ap-

 pesrance, as all printing by that office

 does; and whether the proprietors be-

 lleve it or not, we hope they may be able

 to make the daily success. We have no

 faith that there is sufficient patronage in

 Arizona to properly maintain a daily

 paper. We don't think any weekly has

 enriched its proprietors, nor are the pros

 poets bright that they will very soon; nor

 can it be said that the weeklies are not

 creditable according to the circumstances.

 The Miner and CITIZEN have no superiors

 as weeklies on the frontiers, nor can any

 of the old States show two as neat and

 well-flled papers. We only state fact

 known to every printer and editor who

 see TIE CITIZEN, that it is now mechan

 ically model, and in its attention to Ari-

 zona interests, can hardly be eXcelled. It

 prints more matter in the same space

 than any paper ever did in Arizona, and

 not one within our knowledge equals

 it in this respect. In these statements,

 there are no bids for patronage. The

 proprietor of this paper is independently

 poor and always expects to be. He has

 never sought patronage by trimming to

 anybody or measure and would only de-

 test himself if he ever should. Excepting

 E. D. Wood, our merchants get their

 cards and bill-heads printed in San Fran

 cisco or New York, and we find no fault.

 On this basis, they will mainly patronize newspapers from abroad If The Daily

 Miner could be got here in advance of the San Diego dailies, we presume it

 would be preferred if its news continues

 of sufficient interest. At present we do

 not see that The Daily Miner can hope for

 many subscribers south of the Gila, for

 the reasons that its price is S20 per year

 and it cannot be received any quicker

 than the San Diego dailies at half the

 price. Our people talk it this way. Busi-

 ness is business, says everybody, and

 many here now say that San Francisco is playing a hog game in sales to our mer- chants, and the trade to considerable extent is going to the eastern cities. It may be said local pride should make men support their local paper. Admit it should, and it must also be admitted that 1t don't. A few feel and act upon local pride, but the masses always have and al ways will act upon cold -blooded figuring of how and where to get the most for the least money. Gush as we may now and then under the inspiration of some i'm portant local event, it will usually be found that just as the eXhilerating effects of the champagne die away, so does all local pride which costs money to main- tain-and headache comes on. Speculate and figure and crate as we may, the mass of men-especially those who come with in the class called "business "-make a l Practice of spending cash for the quickest tangible returns. Everyone is pleased when some one else spends money fer the future, and nearly all laugh at such an one when he fails. "He meant well but any " fool might have known better," say the exact business class. Valueless sympa- thizers say "what pity so liberal tel- low has so little sense."

 Again we sincerely say that we hope The Daily Miner will be a success We also | say to the gentlemen of Arizona, that when we give them paper so costly that it will break us down in health or means, | or both, we shall expect no sympathy and would only despise the kind that would be rendered; and we further say that in all our newspaper experience, we never have had better support-comparatively speaking-or more prompt and willing payment of dues, than in Arizona. Mur- dered and plundered by Apaches as they have been, and business unsettled by trifing military commanders and heartless and demoralizing peace commissioners, the only wonder is that any thing not an absolute necessity to existence has been built up. THE CITIZEN has tried to be good and true to Arizona interests and often too when it was the judgment of