Show roil JOn Tl Senator Smoot has offered a as an nn amendment ment to the statehood bill hi a a resolution which if Ir adopted will wi add dd Jan many square miles ll to lo the lie area of I Utah He asks for the cession from Arizona portion of or the present pres pres- i ent pt territory bickes north of or the Pt Colordo Colorado river an and separated j from the rest iest of Arizona by an almost Imp Impassable h barrier but hu Is naturally a portion of or the tho Utah Ulah region It H Is a count country of or possibilities rather than of present wealth But nut it Is a land that with the extension of or tho the Irrigation plans pians of oC the government government will wi become as productive as asen even en the best in iii Utah Ulah The region asked ed for is about ml miles In length with an nn average I breadth of oC perhaps fifty miles mies It I Is watered w b by a number of streams stream and andi andis J i is capable of or irrigation at small ex ex- Pease pense Senator Smoots Smoot's plan lilan contemplates th the willing yielding h by the t territory r lor and a formal acceptance by Utah Ulah It ItIs Itis I I Is to to be hoped the plan ma may prove pro e successful The fhe Interests of or Utah to toda today today to- to da day would he be greatly aided by the thea a acquisition I o of this gr great at territory and the Utah of of the future is certa certain n to tobe tobe toh h be immensely enriched In money value alue and vast vastly increased as to pop pop- Certainly e c every one In this state stale should hould give gho his earnest support Los to Lo s Senator measure and II It I Is lo to tl hoped bo-hoped 1 time Iho l end of or tiLe the present session of congress this extension of or e the states slates frontiers will vIlI wJ become an an accomplished fact |