| Show ANNEXATION Of O i NEVADA TO UTAH UTA I 1 AN N EASTERN PLAN Paper Proposes stern S lv fion i of St State le bV bij Joining It This jort Vote in ch state Would Wo e R Utah is bounded on the north by r Oregon Idaho an an 1 Wyoming on the east by Wyoming ng and Colorado on the south by y Arizona and California f on the west est by Calif Califor or- or nia ma That is s what hat school children will ill sonic some day clay be bo taught if a plan lately suggested in the east is ever adopted The Tile proposal is that Utah and Nevada be united as a single state or In more ore properly that Nevada be annexed to Utah An editorial in Colliers Collier's T Weekly headed The Th Case of N Nevada Can Nevada Can She Stand Alone or Does She Need Help At says en cwt II r z II THE ABANDONMENT OF THE PLAN TO UNITE ARIZONA ARIZON WITH NEW MEXICO BROUGHT OUT THE TIlE SUGGESTION THAT IT T SHOULD BE ATTACHED TO NEVADA AND THAT BROUGHT THE OLD QUESTION QUESTION QUES QUES- TION OF NEVADAS NEVADA'S I AGAIN BEFORE THE PUBLIC PUBLIC THE COLLAPSE OF EACH ES- ES SIVE MINING BOOM THIS TIllS QUES TION HAS BECOME ACUTE OR PR NEVADA HAS NEVER YET AT AT- ATTRACTED A fEriT POPULATION POPULATION LATION LARGE LAROE ENOUGH TO JUS JUS- THE MAINTENANCE l OF OF A A SEPARATE GOVERNMENT NINE STATES JE HAVE COME IE INTO THE UNION SINCE INCE HER SION AND OKLAHOMA WILL MAI MAKE THE TENTH II All All of them have for forged ed ahead while Nevada has stood still She h had d just lyp more people in 1870 1570 than she had h thirty years rears later Inter Her new mining camps are arc helping her just now but in time the they will wil go the wa way of Virginia City and Gold Hill Her hope of a set et tied p po population now rests upon tion Ther herA is pl plenty nt of or fertile soil in the state stat if it can can be watered and the thc reclamation service ma may maet yet et create a supporting self common commonwealth Tho The Rochester Union Advert vl her suggests that the tho proper deposition ds of Nevada adD would be to unite it to Utah I from which it is divided only by bv an nn ima imaginary inar line linc crossing the tho d desert sert This would make a compact state of reasonable size The only objection to the plan is that it would put the people people peo peo- pie of Nevada Nc into relations which the greater part of them would find un un- natural The Tho old oM minin mining region about the Comstock and tho the new camps of Goldfield Tonopah and Bullfrog have all their dealings with California They The would not like t to bo be tied up to a 11 Mormon Mor- Mor formon for for- mon majority several Ic hundred miles away across the thc d crt But there thero is no reason aJ apart art from sentiment why wiry N Nevada c should not be bo divided attaching attaching at at- taching the western part art to California and the eastern to Utah tali Under such an arrangement the tho enlar enlarged t California California California Califor Califor- nia would still be smaller than Texas and the enlarged ed Utah smaller than Montana l While Whilo annexation has never be been n- n seriously considered in the west west- the probable results of such a union are interesting to contemplate Utah now has a population po population of about That of Nevada e is probably Thus the tho two states state q if ii combined in in oneat one oneat oneat at the present time would have o a pop population pop population of ot These States Smaller The population exceed that mat 01 of of six other states Delaware with I Idaho aho with Montana with 29 North Dakota with as 84 Vermont with and Wyo Wyoming min ruing ming with It It would be pr practically c- c tica y equal to the tho population copulation of New Hampshire and of South Dakota each case of which has approximately according to the latest figures available Utah's area would be increased be-increased from square miles to or more than doubled In extent o of area it would exceed oven even California which has hns square miles Utah Utah's Is s gold old J production ro would be bemore bemore more than doubled The output of tho the gold old mines mine of the tho scent pm-scent state this year Car CarIS is estimated at 02 oun ounces ounces es- es while hilo that of Nevada is The gain nin in ill output of silver silver- w would uhl be a about out on one one- thir third The latest Utah fi figures aro are O and md those of N Nevada y Tho Tim Effect Politically How the thc political complexion of the state would ouM be affected ma may mav be estimated estimated estimated esti esti- mated b by hy an any man for himself b b. b comparing com eom- paring the election eJection returns in Utah and anel Nevada 1 Neva a at tho the last election If the thc c con con- n. n I I gressional districts as at present defined were kept intact Utah would have two representatives in congress instead of one wh while lo the United States senate would have two fewer members than at present In order to effect such an annexation annexation tion it would be necessary first for congress congress con con- gress to pass bass an act calling a special election in in the two interested st states tes Then it would be necessary for a a in ma majority ma- ma of the thc residents in each state to vote ote for union If Utah should give e a i majority in in favor of annexation and j N Nevada ala c a majority against it the proposition j I would fail lail even exen thou though h the total affirm o ti o o vote ate greatly exceeded the thel negative l c thc The sun same would bo be true truo if Nevada Ne favored ored and Utah opposed an an- An affirmative vote tote in each state s separately wOuld uld be he required |
