THE PINAL DRILL, Pinal City, Arizona Territory, Sept. 24, 1881 Not only a very rare title from this bona fide ghost town in Southern Arizona, but this is a volume two issue. And what a logical name for a mining town newspaper.
According to "ghosttowns.com": "Pinal's post office was established April 10, 1878 and was discontinued November 28, 1891. Pinal was the milling town for nearby Silver King, about five miles away.
Originally called "Pickett Post" after Picket Post Butte, Pinal grew to include over 2000 residents. Pinal had its own newspaper called the "Pinal Drill". Pinal had everything anyone could ever want, but when silver was devalued in the late 1800's the town quickly dwindled and in 1890, only ten people were left. Unbelievably, there is absolutely nothing left today."
The issue is filled with much local and regional news, with a good number of advertisements a would be expected from a mining town. Page 4 has; "Garfield Is Dead" with other related heads, and all columns on pgs. 4 & 5 are black bordered.
Complete in eight pages, never bound nor trimmed, mostly loose at the spine, some archival mends & minor margin tears. There is a small piece from the left margin of the front leaf., plus the 3rd leaf has a 2 1/4 by 4 1/2 inch ad clipped out.
An exceedingly rare newspaper of which we have only seen but a few issues in over 34 years.