Show NEW dakotah at the north and arizona at the south will present themselves to congress this winter the first by iwo delegates g tach each of whom a claims to be the choice of the people and will ask for recognition as territories of the un united ed states slates the president has specially recommended the organization of arizona some serious serious steps have ha e been taken to carve cane a new territory to be called superior out of michigan I 1 vis coasin and minnesota an application it has been said would be made to congress at this session session but this thid s is contradicted by the detroit free press what has really been done has bein been the assembling isse nibling of a coave convention anton i professing sing tu it present the people of the proposed territory and the passage of resolutions favorable to the project together with the appointment of a committee in attee to draft an address to the legislatures of tho the states interested it does not appear that popular sentiment in in superior is is unanimously in in favor OF of the project eject besides the territories named there has been a talk in in the newspapers of a territory to be framed out of western estern utah and part of california a sierra nevada te territory rr atory the latest conceit of the territory mongers bongers is is the proposition of a flighty genius who ho appears to think that pikes peak will have to be organized into into a territory of all these none probably will be considered by congress as having ha ing any weighty claims to the privileges asked for but arizona and dakotah of the latter not a great deal is is yet et known though thong b it i is s believed to possess resources which will one day make a respectable pec table state arizona has become very prominent its silver mines mines and auni enous trea treasures Fures attract unusual attention there is is no doubt of an abundance of silver sih er ore there and we trust the hopes hold held out by the recent reports 0 of f the gold old washings will vilf be realized copperas Cop copper perls is to be found in in immense quantities is is easily extracted and will pro babi bably pay a after shipment to Gu buyama guamas yama lead lea and iron are equally plentiful in short there is is probably no spot of earth of equal extent which i is s so rich in m mineral resources |