Show SENATOR STEWART AND UTAH it la is possible but not at all likely that the scheme devised by senator stewart for the annexation of utah to nevada may get through tout abut the time seems much too brief to admit of any such measures measured being even brought up during the present resent session As aa we look at it J failure to accomplish such work now would mean failure allure for years to come if not altogether for political reasons alone though there might be others after the eth of march the democrats will as at present have a strong majority in the house of representatives and as it is not at present a majority in the senate undoubtedly they will look to the strengthening of their hands and there will as heretofore be more or less political legislation they have nothing to hope for from nevada and it la is not at all likely that they would care to jeopardize utah with its ita present democratic preponderance in that or any other manner so we feel safe in saying that nothing will come of the project senator stew arts motives in trying to got get the annexation measure through at this time may be and doubtless are roper proper enough from his standpoint Us he sees in hit his state a monger meager population becoming smaller as time passes along and with no attractions worth naming to induce immigration from any quarter it has a good sized debt not as large as some make it nor so small that it could be paid readily afat if at all in the prevailing financial and industrial condition there at the rate and in the way things are going there the state government must sooner or later inevitably collapse for the lack of people and wealth to keep it up As the senator is in devoted to his own soil and what to ie left of his bis constituency he naturally seeks to avert the impending crisis and sees s no 0 other way to accomplish his bis laudable d design than man by annexing some neighboring territory which already has the requisite population and wealth arizona borders it on the south to some extent but arizona for miles beyond its ite northern line is ie mostly as barren and forbidding as nevada itself so nothing would be gained by dismembering dismember ing that territory for the purpose named utah lies alongside and a union with un would make the state as 88 newly constructed moro more shapely sud and compact and the addition would be equivalent in all respects to the transfusion of new and life giving blood into the veins of the tottering commonwealth besides mr stewart pt ewart is a republican and in his hill minds igind ve eye he doubtless sees his bartys in nevada of a couple of thousand or thereabout there about overcoming the democratic plurality here especially after the liberals ahall have divided on national lines and making the oon con so soli dated sovereignty as ai reliably republican as the nevada portion ot of it now la is these theae may be his views and alms and they way may not we are speak peaking from the standpoint of probability as it seems to be upheld and borne out by accomplished facts and attendant circumstances there to is a sentimental feature in the case that will not of course amount to anything but it might as well be mentioned so that the whole case will be presented the annexation of utah to nevada would be not so much a consolidation strictly speaking as a reunion until the national scalpel was applied and nevada was out away from this territory to become sovereign and independent we were one and the same territorial community nevada was then 1862 in the full flush and heyday of a great mining boom which not only enriched thousands who had clustered about the comstock but poured i to lo the war fund an all but ceaseless stream of gold and silver treasure speculation ran high and it seemed as if the era of wealth for the million had bad come through the gorges and fissures of the mountains which had bad been taken take n from us utah was left to her flocks ke and herds her fields and her workshops plodding along while her divorced fraction was waa sailing giddily along on the flood tilde tide of a glittering prosperity P then there came a the comstock Com could no longer respond as freely as aa at first to the constant demands upon it and this was the first premonition of an inevitable breakdown all along the line fluctuation followed the downward trend would now and then be arrested for short periods and then go on toward the bottom which must be about reached the great lode is 18 now but a skeletal etOL from wh whose se bones little if anything to Is being I 1 plucked lucked and all the large enterprises and interests which it called into existence and maintained have dwindled into Iti significance or died outright but the beginning of decadence of mining in nevada was the commencement of that interest here and it il has grown with a steady growth because of our agricultural advantages we have been able to make it more profitable than it otherwise would have been and today etab mines alone are worth more than nevadas ever were even during the brightest days of the comstock and her wealth generally as compared with that of tier her western neighbor is that of an hundred to one now I 1 is it that utah who was not good enough t 11 go into the union with its ite other half and too poor to keep company with the greater wealth ot the Sier called upon to prevent threatened decadence aud and decrepitude to the part pare once so highly favored anti and so eo grandly prosperous I 1 Is this one of times rimes rime s revenges or is it merely the working out ofa of a forecast destiny the NEWS was published I 1 loi g belore the separation took place before what to is now nevada contained any population at all and it has been pu blied continuously ever since it began it is therefore something of a i historian historia nm M to this pard particular oular subject and knows know whereof it speaks regard ing it it did not oppose dismemberment but it does now oppose re restoration oot not bemuse of anything that 1 to herein contained but bat for the sole and sufficient reason that utah is ia too far advanced in the scale of eligibility for the boon of statehood to be made a side aide show for the benefit of any of its ifa neighbors it is entitled to sovereignty on its own account and because of khz alone we hope she will got get it or not at all |