After The Territorial Enterprise was moved from Carson City to Virginia City its place was almost immediately taken by The Silver Age. The new venture was successful almost from the start because it was favored by the Legislature in the matter of public printing.
The third paper in Carson City was started by W. W. Ross on July 27, 1863. It was called The Daily Independent and expired on October 11, 1864.
H. W. Johnson & Company had started The Daily Evening Post of Carson City on August 27, 1864. Its appearance had undoubtedly something to do with the death of The Daily Independent, because when the latter paper suspended publication The Evening Post became a morning paper. In January, 1865, it, too, suspended publication. The following December John C. Lewis, who had been editor of the morning edition of The Post, took the plant to Wasshoe City, where he started The Eastern Slope. Unsuccessful here, he moved the plant to Reno in July, 1868, where he printed The Crescent until 1875. He then sold the paper to J. C. Dow, who commenced The Daily Nevada Democrat, which later became The Reno Daily Record.
ARRIVAL IN ARIZONA
The first paper in Arizona, The Weekly Arizonian, was started at Tubac by Sylvester Moury in all probability on or near March 3, 1859. Number 20 of Volume I, the earliest known issue of this paper, was dated July 14 of that year. The press on which the paper was printed came around the Horn in 1858 and was brought from Guaymas to Tubac by wagon. In 1860 the paper was removed to Tucson where it was published by Jack Simms and George Smithson. It suspended publication in 1861. In advertising the sale of its plant, it included among the office equipment two derringers. This mention, brief as it is, showed a necessary adjunct, along with "shooting-irons," in the office of many of the Western papers. As a matter of fact, one reason for the suspension of the paper was the fact that its publishers were charged with a stage robbery and in resisting arrest one of them was killed.
In 1867 the paper was revived under its old name by W. S.
