Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-02-14
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New STATES BETWEEN Missouri AND CAL.
1FoRNIA.-The prediction of Col Benton, that
"the line of great States which now stretch
half way across our continent in the same at-
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., Ohio, Indiana, Illinois
and Missouri and California, is in rapid course
of fultillment, as shown in a very interesting
manner by Hon. Francis p. Blair, Jr., in his
recent lecture on the Destiny of the Races on
this Continent" Kansas, said Mr.. Blair, has
thrown off her slave letters, and is now ready
to take her place as a free State in the Union
Bentons second State, West Kansas or Colona,
and more recently Jefferson, as it is now pro-
posed to name it, is filling up with people a
round Pixies Peak, and other explorers familiar
with this region, speak with enthusiasm Of the
fertility Of its soil and the salubrity of its
climate The San Luis valley, drained by the
Rio del Norte lies between the thirty eighth
and thirty ninth parallel of latitude, and is at
once the largest and most beautiful of the
mountain parks.
The third State marked out by Benton is the
Mountain State, comprising a section of the
Rocky Mountains from the 37th to the 41st
parallel of latitude, nearly three hundred miles
north and south, and going down to the base on
either side, making two hundred miles or more
in breadth, and covering an area of 10000
square miles. No other section of the Rocky
Mountains is capable of cultivation sufficient
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State. 1t embraces three immense parks-the
South, the Middle, and the North Park, two
OF them thirty miles, the third sixty miles in
diameter, with an area of arabic land greater
than all Switzerland, while innumerable valleys
divided by rich, sloping hills, covered to the
summit with pasturage, open the way from the
parks through multitude of streams-north-
ward by the Platte to the Missouri, eastward
by the Arkansas to the Missouri southwark by
no IN do C,,lf \
and south-westwardly by the Colorado to the
Gulf of California. This concentration of the
head waters of the great rivers is one of the
most remarkable features of the continent.
This beautiful country, like Kentucky in its
former times, is sort of preserve for the
buffalo and game that feed the surrounding
Indian natons-a hunting and fighting ground
for the tribes, but the home of none. When
they come to hunt, they come, too, with all
their strength, to fight. This was witnessed by
Fremont during his explorations. The pion-
GERS, therefore, who covet this goodly land
must carry with them the rifle as well as the
spade, in order to protect themselves against
the Indians.
A fourth State will embrace the whole val
ley of the Colorado down to its head of navi-
CATION by steam in latitude Sc. Its width,
from the base of the Rocky Mountains to the
eastern base Of the Wasatch range is $50 miles;
Hs lengtn upwards OF oOO. The Colorado
opens to this Valley State the whole North
western section of Mexico, and the Gulf of
California. There is already a settlement of
several thousand white men at Los Vegas de
Santa Clara. The valley is bordered by the
Sierra de la Plata, or Silver Mountains, the
Cerro de Sal (Sault Mountain) is situated
among the western spurs of the Sierra, and
here are also found mountains of iron which
rival those of Missouri.
The Territory Of Utah in the Great Basin, in
Guiding Carson's Valley, forms the last of this
belt of States, and already has white popu-
lation of sixty thousand souls. Agriculture
1ourishes, coal mines are opened, iron works
are established, and industry in its various
forms is extending on every hand.
MIR. Blair expresses the opinion that before
five years shall have elapsed Benton's predic-
ton will be accomplished. Kansas and Utah
have already sufficient population to become
States Jefferson, through the golden treasures
around Pixies Peak, will secure during the
next season larger population than now is
possessed by Kansas and Utah together and
the Mountain State and the upper valley of the
great Colorado will soon be filed with tenn
ing busy people-their attractions surpass all
others, and in their gorges will be sought the
quartz whose washings have impregnated the
sands of the plains below.