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Show THAT ABIZONA STRIP. Efforts of Commissioners Lund and Woolley at. Phoenix. Utah people are of course greatly interested in the mission of Messrs. 'Woolley and .Lund, who are now in .Arizona as comissioners to have a ;portion of that territory added to 'this state. A special from Phoenix to the Denver Republican comments )n their visit as follows: Present in Phoenix. are two commissioners com-missioners with powers unique in the history of the-nation delegated by a state of the Union to treat with a neighbcnring .political government govern-ment for the cession of a portion of Lund and Edwin D. Woolley, respectively re-spectively of St. George and Kanab, southern Utah. The former is the chairman of the Utah board of equalization and has -several times' been a member of the legislature. Their mission, as they outline it,' is to get from the Arizona legislature legisla-ture an indorsement of a bill intro-! duced in congress "for the cession sought by Utah. This they hope' to get, though they appear to believe be-lieve congress in any event will' grant their prayed. They state that the region is a very no-man's-land, in which cattle and horse thieves find safety. It is not populous enough to be made into- a seperate county,, and will, if added to Utah, be made part of the counties of Kane and Washington. how Arizona legislators r tliL, Members of the Arizona legislature, legisla-ture, interviewed on the subject, express ex-press generally their opposition to the cession, basing their opposition, upon the ground that the great Col-! orado canyon would then cease to be wholly within Arizona. Several however, stated that they would not be unfavorable to the scheme if Utah were willing to pay a substantial'"' substant-ial'"' cash consideration into the treasury of Arizona. The Utah comissioners appeared today before the legislature and presented their credentials. A short address in' favor of the proposed annexation an-nexation of the Grand canyon region re-gion was made by Commissioner" Lund, after which a joint committee of eight was authorized to confer with the Utah delegates on the subject. sub-ject. Salt Lake Herald. 'the latters territory. The applicant appli-cant is the state of Utah and the territory ter-ritory involved is that lying within Arizona, north of the grand canyon of the Colorado. The region sought embraces about ,000 square miles of area. The population is shifting, for the most part, perhaps 250 of the residents :being permanent. The valuation of '.the property embraced, as found by the Arizona assessors, is about $100,-oo, $100,-oo, mainly in cattle. As the region, re-gion, is gashed by many and great lbxxx ccuyoi"irS,''T,rater is scarce and -ranches are far apart. THE ONLY SETTLEMENT. Tn Kanab Wash, which flows one of the few tributaries of the Colorado nvithin Arizona, is a Mormon settlement settle-ment of 23 families, favored with a vpostoffice and rejoicing in the only school district and the only justice of the peace in the isolated region. TThis-setUerirent known as Fredonia, as only three miles from the Utah line. Near here is the only farming farm-ing district, embracing several hundred hun-dred acres- of alfalfa, fruit, etc., farmed after the usual Mormon methods. No mines are worked,-though worked,-though Indians sometimes bring out rom the canyon's depths specimens of rich gold and copper ore, and John D. Lee, of Mountain Meadow Mead-ow infamy, is known to have found, when lie was in hiding in the town' below Lee's ferry, a large quantity jf coarse gold, NOT OFTEN VISITED. '.The country sought to be added to 'Utah is wholly within the counties count-ies of Coconino and Mohave and is visited by one of the officials of either county perhaps once a year. The assessment is done by a deputy and the taxes are paid promptly, though the people have never availed avail-ed themselves of the privilege of voting vot-ing for Arizona officials, and get no protectionvwhatever from the Arizona Ari-zona .laws. To arrest and -try a criminal '-ill the northern part of either county would entail an expense ex-pense of at 'least $1,000, however r:'mple the offense. t The two comissioners appointed iGibehafoof Utah are Robert C. |