Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-03-09
ruorraHrs ON NEW STATES.

THOUGHTS ON NE"
uow they promise to file in! Here is
Colorado. Nebraska is at the door.
Presently Montana. Idaho Washington,
aud .oon thereafter Dacotah and Arizona,
and. perhaps, Utah, will name stars in the
Grand constellation that adorns the azure
of our flag. Look upon the map of our
country. and mark the comparatively
.~uninhabited expanse" of territory be-
longing TO Uncle Samuel. And then maks
o fair calculation on the settlements, the
increase in population altogether, within
years to come; being mindful Of the
railroad facilities that are to be afforded
the people, from one side Of the continent
to the other, within the next decade. In
agina,ion is challenged unto confusion by
the Announcements promised at the very
outset Of estimates in the direction point
ed. Six new States in as many years
from now with the people thereof afford
ed convenient access to the trade centers
or marts Of the Union. The statement is
plain and indispusable-,he facts Of Or
ganization and facile inter-communication
will be so. Immigration for these States,
direct from foreign countries, is estimated,
by the various Boards of Immigrant Com.
missioners at New York, at no, less than
an average half-million a year for the nex'
ten years; and for the next five there are
four millions of Irish and German people
expected a, Atlantic ports, on through
intentions and tickets for the latest coined
Sovereigns Of the Republic. Up to thi:
astonishing belief with proportional
preparation in many official quarters-rur
the prophecies of those best qualified &c
know and speak in relation to such mat
tiers. ThoseSStates which lie Immediately
on the line Of the Central Railroad, trav,
ersing the western basis Of the continent
will first, and for a long outset time, ap'
preciate and enjoy the benefits Of the latter
day exodus from the old world, of which
we have recapi,ulsted an accoun II W,
have forgotten the prophecy of Professor
S~iliman-shat Nevada would turn ou'
$500, 900, 900 annually, in bullion-it will
be recalled to mind at no distant day by
yields transcending the seemingly prepos
ferrous assertion of the learned geolog,st
Nevada must necessarily possess, ant
gather of. the first fruits of that immigra
ton that dates from three years hence, anc
on to rs; the great railroad being 81
nearly completed in 1869 (if not quite
that our superior offers to labor and in
vestment of small capital will not be coun
.erbalsnced or impaired by more easily o
inexpensively reached sections of tn,
nation.
And speaking Of new States, We eoult
offer some fresh and queer advice to un,
acknowledged South Carolinians: lie
them go to Montana, in a body, and join
Prices army boys, as settlers in that MIN
winter-month region. Then they will b,
admitted! Blu, there the bracing colo
climate would thoroughly republican,,
them, and absolutely required work woult
lead them to respect labor and white
laboring men - they. themselves, being
forced into the catalogue. They would
probably. sooner come to Utah, and con-
join their irc.ea,ing politics with Brig
hams polygamic social notions. DEGREES
and practices. But, no danger ; the new
States will be spared such a wholesale or
overwhelming ataiction as has been sug-
gested.
Pioneer life is u life from the individual
into the health OF the nation. It changes
the relations Of men neutralizes the con.
~sanguini,y that is bred Of cramped
boundaries to home and speculative travel.
The sovereignties of States is to be all
the time manifested through the provin.
cialisms that spring from novel a~ssocia.
tons, and callings Of late adaptation to the
requirements of to-day found in mining
or agricultural regions. And SO it will bt
TO the end of the history of the United
States.
The year 1875 will surely see forty star:
on the shield; 1900 will see fifty member:
of our political planetary systcm-with
orbits on the same plane-moving in per-
feet harmony, by their concentrated ligh,
illuminating the world.