In the same issue is a notice illustrating the production difficulties characteristic of a frontier press:
We have to apologize to the readers of the Arizonian, for the delay in issuing this our regular number; the detention has been unavoidably caused, by the indisposition of our printer. We hope it may not occur again, and will not as far as lays in our power to prevent it.
When examined as recently as 1932, a Library of Congress binding contained 10 issues of the Arizonian from the year 1859, beginning July 14; however, that early issue has been missing from the binding at least since 1948. One mark of provenance occurs among the remaining issues: an inscription on the issue of August 18, the upper half of which has been cut away but which unquestionably reads, "Gov Rencher." The recipient was Abraham Rencher (1798-1883), a distinguished North Carolinian who was serving as Governor of the Territory of New Mexico in 1859. By whatever route, these issues reached the Library early enough to be recorded in A Check List of American Newspapers in the Library of Congress (1901).
(Column from Arizonian)
[128] See Douglas C. McMurtrie, The Beginnings of Printing in Arizona (Chicago, 1937), p. 31, note 9.
[129] See Estelle Lutrell, Newspapers and Periodicals of Arizona 1859-1911 (Tucson, 1950), p. 7-8, 63-64. For more on Cross and Mowry, see Jo Ann Schmitt, Fighting Editors (San Antonio, 1958), p. 1-21.