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Show Tho Record is in recipl of a circular request from tho chairman of tho -Democratic, Republican and Progressive partiosi and of tho board of county commissioners of Wasatch county, asking that the voters of Iron county be requested to voto for the Amendment t( Section 1, Article 11 of tho Constitution. This a mendment is primarily intended to enablo Wasatcl county to bo divided, creating two counties out t tho present county. Tho residents of tho county are unanimously in favor of the amend ment. A range of mountains create during tho winter an almost impassible barrier of ice and snow between tho eastern and western portions of tho coupty. In order to reach the county sent,' which is now at Hebor. tho people of tho eastern half of tho county, which includes tho Uinta reservation, must risk their lives in crossing the mountains, and it is to relievo this condition that tho voters of tho state aro asked to approve tho proposed amendment. |