The Placer herald., 1860-05-19
..,.,4;c News per Pony Express.

AMo Nav TERR1roR1Es.-The Wash
TIE FIVE lloarr,esnondent Of the New York
ugton .,uder u date of May I'd, says
Times, INES, % sor the organization of five new Ter
,i,ias Di''s were agreed upon by the Committee
rsCT,v, CTT"rr;,ories to day. The names OF these
on 1Tarritories are Chippewa, Arizona, Me-
new idobo. or the Gem of the Mountains,
gsd'i gsd'nioaotah. ," The limits of these new Ter
sao ',ories are as follows:
r'0r1;1 %h;0rawa is bounded by British America
ou'Pp pporth. forty-sixth parallel of north lat
on WV the South, Minnesota on the east
''ua' a% washington Va Territory on the west, thus
s"u s"'mnc new Territory out OF the northern
,O'@SFN s'f "f Nebraska and Dacotah, with an ex-
."n, "", Of 1876 900 square miles,
'eu' D., The contemplated arrangement the
r..,;torv u of Arizona will have the following
lenn',ar;es: le', Utah Territory on the north,
pou:o pt.;oo IN the South, Virginia river and
n,;so,,;s Meassu on the west, and the one hundred
oa'" a;ahth meridian on the east. The pro-
"r "ortions of the area OF Territory will be-,
S"w Mexico about 40 square miles and the
n s"w Territory nearly 200 square miles.
p'T rho houndaries Of Nevada will be on the
.,,,b bv Oregon and the forty-third paral-
,, nJ',o 70 Green river, and thence by Green riv-
~ ~, ~ =, the northern boundary of Utah to the
hundred and fourteenth meridian of
v', ve,t longitude; thence by the one hundred
.nd fourteenth meridian and Virgin river to
%olfornia. "|I This Territory will contain
% shont It's, 900 square miles. The bounda
rH r;es on the east approach within one hun
arsa irs miles of Salt Lake City and the Nor
@ mon settlements. Washington Territory is
tbus derived of about fifteen thousand
snuare ~ miles OF land small corner is also
cnt off from the Territory of New Mexico.
The boundaries of Idaho, or, "The Gem of
,he Mountains" are as follows: North by
the torty.thrd parallel Of north latitude, east
bv one hundred and second meridian of
west longitude, and west by Green river
This Territory comprises 10000 square
miles. One half cf this is taken from Utah,
small portion from Nebraska and New
Mexico. the remainder from Kansas.
The Committee have agreed that the bal
ance of Utah east of the Green river, about
10000 square miles, shall be attached to
Nebraska This will reduce Utah to about
100000 square miles, which will be surroun-
ded by the new Territorial Governments of
Arizona, Nevada, Idaho, and that portion of
the old Territory of Oregon which WAS at
.ached to Washington last Congress. If this
does not bring the Mormons nearer to civil
imtion and good government, it will bring
civilization and good government nearer to
them.
Dacotah is TO be composed of part of
the present Territory of that name and a
portion of Nebraska, and bounded as follows:
The forty sixth meridian of north latitude on
the north; Minnesota and Iowa, to the mouth
ofthe Big Sioux, on the east; on the South, fol-
lowing tie Missouri river. from the mouth of
the Big Sioux to the mouth of the Niobra-
rah, ard along the Niobrarah to the one
hundred and second meridian of west long-
tude along the one hundred and second me-
rilian to the forty third parallel Of north lat
ude; thence along the fortythrd parallel
to the crest of the Rocky Mountains and on
the west by Washington Territory. This
Territory will consist of about $4,000
square miles. This does not include or in
lerfere with any of The settled portions of
Nebraska.