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Show Swallowixg Cttah. When the Herald, it asked the Virginia, Xev., Enterprise for an exchange, the Enterprise Enter-prise sat upon a high stool, looked down upon the Herald and declined. To-day we wouldn't accept it as an exchange. ex-change. We have several from Nevada Nev-ada that discount it badly. " The Enterprise En-terprise is very anxious that Nevada should gobble up L tah; not a doubt of it. We presume all Nevada is slightly slight-ly inclined thU way. "Mary Jane Simpson" we were alway3 partial to Mary Jaaes, in a late correspondence from Virginia, Nev., to the San Francisco Fran-cisco Chronicle, says, on this Utah annexation an-nexation question : The Stale Refisler (Democratic onran at Carson) discusses the subject without exactly favoring it. The Enterprise, En-terprise, of this city, favors it strongly, and assumes that the Register docs likewise. The population of Utah is lixed by the Repittcr at 120,000, and by the Enterprise at 80,000. I do not know which is right. Nevada has now about 42,000 population. Utah has been run economically, and owes . nothing. Nevada, both as Territory and State, has been managed extravagantly, extrava-gantly, and is largely in debt. The taxable property of Utah is much larger than that of Nevada. The ad- ' vantage offered to us is that of saddling sadd-ling some of our debt upon our neighbors, neigh-bors, while to Utah the inducement held out is that of a State Government. |