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California Mining Town Newspapers, 1850-1880 (1954) (112 pages)

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CALIFORNIA MINING TOWN NEWSPAPERS Free Press—Weekly, daily, 1879-1885. First distributed as a throw-away advertising paper. Morning News—Daily, March 1879-June 20, 1880. United with Bodie Standard to become Bodie StandardNews. BripcEport: Mono County. Chronicle-Union—See Bodie Chronicle. Cotoma: El Dorado County. El Dorado News—July 19-Dec. 6, 1851. Moved to Placerville and discontinued in 1853. T. A. Springer and F. H. Harman, publishers and editors. A Whig paper. Empire County Argus—1853-1857. John Conness and T. M. Reed, owners; N. W. Fuller, editor. Printed in Coloma on presses purchased from the Miner’s Advocate of Diamond Springs. It was Democratic in political view, favoring Senator David C. Broderick. D. P. Tallmage succeeded N. W. Fuller as editor. He held this post until the end of 1855 when W. J. Forbes and C. Woods took the paper over. They continued to publish until they failed, the last issue being November 1856. This left Coloma without a newspaper. The citizens took up a collection and made good the paper’s debts and publication was resumed until July 23, 1857, when H. S. Smith and Company purchased it and moved it to Placerville where [ 26 ]