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Show . f That Piece of Arizona, From Th Southern Censor. Lying between the Grand Canyon of the Colorado and the southern boundary of Utah there lies a tract of barren country, cut deep with hollows, . covered with sand, rocks and brush. Occasionally there is a, spring of water which is owned by a! Utah cattle man; who has takentip the land to obtain the water There are but two. settlements on the entire en-tire tract and they are Utah people, with all interests in Utah. There are but two places where the Colorado Colo-rado river can be forded by the officials of Arizona, and these are so far out of the way that the officials of that territor have never been able to give any protection to the stock: men who have, interests in there; and were it not for the protection private parties erive themselves, it would prove a den for the secretion of cattle thieves and other lawbreakers. law-breakers. Two years ago this winter, a mem- berot the Arizona Legislature intro-j duced a resolution into the lower house of that body, favoring the an-1 nexation ofHhe tract to Utah, but the resolution did not passaUhough a resolution opposing it was also voted 4 down . Members V of the legislature of : the - territory - ontHe south said at the time that they did care for the country, as it would be a needless expense to them if they were forced to protect those who held property on it. The question then is this," why does Delegate Murphy of Arizona, oppose Representative Repre-sentative Allen's bill to annex.the tract to our State? ' There has always al-ways been a great deal pf lawlessness lawless-ness going on there, and southern Utah has suffered from 'it, while Mohave and Coconino counties have never been able to exercise any control con-trol over it. They seem to believe that there are rich minerals in the deep canyons, but 11 there is anything any-thing in either mineral, grazing or agricultural wealth it will be developed devel-oped by Utah industry; it is cut off by every means of communication from the territory it now belongs to, and there is a natural boundary which should be the legal one between be-tween the two commonwealths and Utah should have the land ... |