Show NEV NEVADA ARIZONA UNION POSSIBLE E EW S W WASHINGTON ASHIl Sept 5 According to gossip Jo In Washington 1 a a. t suggestion has b been cm made mads presumably to tho the tion iOn that tb the embarrassment caused b by th the refusal of or ton congress o to approve o Pr President l. l dt dent n Roosevelt's efforts to have hn the terri tern torl tories of ot Arizona and New ew Mexico taken Into tho the union as ns one ona state tate nUl may be bo ob ob- a as far as 15 Arizona is conc concerned b by Joining joInIng- that territory to Nevada Nes thus providing pro pro- viding hung n a state with a n population of or more than J A According to th the last c census tho the population tion of Nevada ada was wa only but bul since Hie th hc gold discoveries In the GoI and Tonopah districts the assertion has haft been ben made mad that Nevada le has hap within hT r borders bonier The Tho gossip 1 arises arbes out of ot the re reC recent re- re C cent announcement ent that the president would not make an any further effort to ob obtain oh- oh tam tain Joint statehood for Cor Arizona and New Mexico |