Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-12-05
SIX NEW STATES.
Something About the Late Adj
ditions to the Union.
The Line of States Now Reaches
From Ocean To Ocean.

Tho limo of States of the Union now
extends unbroken from tho Atlantic
to the Pacific Ocean. Tho admission
of Wyoming and Idaho on the Fourth
of July made the number of States
forty-tour, and it completed the chain
across the continent, SO that one may
now pass from ocean to ocean without
being at any time beyond the limits of
some State.
Tho territory of idaho wns establish
ed in 1868. All of its present area
was before that time included in the
Territory of Washington. AS origi-
naly organized, however, it embraced
the whole of Montana and n part of
Wyoming. 1t was divided in 1868,
and the boundaries have not since been
changed. Its area is about ninety-onc
thousand square miles, or almost ex-
actly twice that of Pennsylvania.
For more than twenty years after its
organization its growth in population
was slow, but recently it has increased
very rapidly.
Wyoming was formed in 1868 from
parts of Dakota, Idaho and Montana.
Its limits have never been changed and
its area is one hundred and six thou
sand square mics. Notwithstanding
its immense size there arc six larger
states i'll the union. Like; Idaho its
growth in population is recent. In
1870 it contained but about nine thou
sand whites and in 1880 only twenty
thousand. Wyoming is distinguished
MS the first state in the union to admit
women to all the privileges of citizen
ship.
1t is an interesting fact that the area
over which the six States exercise jur-
isdlction, which were admitted during
the year ended OH the Fourth of July,
is almost exactly two-thirds of mil
lion square miles, and is moro than
half as large again us the whole area
included i'll the thirteen original States
Of the Union.
Indeed it lacks but n few thousand
square miles of the area of the Union
after Mississippi was admitted in the
year 1917, and Mississippi was the
twentieth State.
Not only is the admission of six new
States within single twelvcmonfh
unprecedented in the history of the
country, but it is fact that only once
before have three States come into the
Union in so short time. Florida,
Iowa and Texas were. all admitted
during the year 1915. No President
before General Harrison has been per.
mitted to proclaim the admission of
more than y |, tthsee States, not even one
Of. Of 7tlhoss Presid dents whose term has.
extended to- eightsyears. Y.
The material forsnew States al
mostSexhausted. The only Territory
not now under the governmentSg6f
some State is the District of Columbia,
the Indian Territory, including Okla
homa, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah
and Alaska. Not more than four
States will be formed out of these
Territories, at least for long time 10
come.
The new sisters have moved still
further westward the seat of empire.
There arc now twenty-five States east
of the Mississippi River, and nineteen
west of that great stream. While the
population of the newer States does
not give them great representation
in the House of Representatives, they
are nearly n half of the Senate. and
when the other Territories are admit
ted The Mississippi River will divide
the Union almost exactly in two, SO
far as the number of States is con-
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