Show THE IJTJU YEYADA PROJECT Some of the Nevada papers ara fairly trembling in their shoes at the prospect of Utah being annexed to the sagebrush state The Gazette says the scheme is being be-ing worked up by longheaded careful manipulators and will be consummated before the rank and file know of it unless the people wake up Senator Stewart is said tb be in favor of the annexation and Senator Jones is reported to have I said that if the people > of Nevada thought so it would probably be to their advantage I advan-tage to consolidate The Journal is of the opinion that the people of western Nevada might prefer annexation to California with the eastern east-ern counties ot which they have much in common to becoming the tail end of a state with the capital at Salt Lake ISo ISo I-So far as Utah is concerned Nevada I need not feel at all alarmed The prosperous pros-perous and enterprising people inhabiting inhabit-ing this territory have no desire we take it to be hitched to the squeezed lemon JJ called Nevada They will never become so anxious for the possession of statehood state-hood as to willingly consent to burden themselves with the debts and other encumbrances en-cumbrances that are worrying our neighbor neigh-bor on the west Look upon this picture Utah has an area of 84970 miles and in 1890 had a population of 207905an increase in-crease of 63492 in ten years Then on this Nevada has an area of 110700 square miles and it had a population of 45761 in 1890a decrease of 16405 in ten years The annexation of Utah to Nevada I would in the minds of many here be like mating a dove to a coyote or a I healthy wealthy and beautiful maiden with an old decrepit and wornoutspend thrift This may be an extreme way of putting it but it means we want no Nevada rada in ours and we dont want to be in I Nevada I |