Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-07-28

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NESA%ESS> eiSn states of the
SA0 Union, each having;
two able-bodied Unit
ed States Senator's and one Representative
in the popular branch of Congress to start
with. The admission of Utah for which the
enabling act was approved by the President
the other day, is already foregone conclu-
sion, and will be consummated. no doubt,
in November of next year On the LIST of
August proclamation will issue for an cleo
ton of delegates in November to a terri
torial convention to be held in March next,
and If the constitution and other ma
chnery then adopted is ratified by the peo-
pie in November next year, the President
will promulgate his proclamation admitting
Utah into the sisterhood of states.
As for Arizona and New Mexico the
enabling acts for their admission passed the
House of Representatives on December Il
last and June Is respectively, and both
acts are now receiving favorable conside-a-
ton In the Senate and being made to con-
form as respects their provisions and dates
for holding elections and constitutional con-
ventions with the terms of the Utah act
No doubt is entertained that IL they do not
get through before the adjournment of the
present session of Congress, they will at
session. The most recent experiments in state
building, preceding the present efforts. were
conducted by our national lawmakers in
1880, when Idaho md Wyoming were ad-
mitted. and just before that. in 1889, when
Montana, Washington, North Dakota and
South Dakota were received into fun MEN,
bership in the Union BY the triple admission
of Utah, Arizona and New Mexico a domain
OF 3O.6IO square miles, equal to all the
thirteen tai
cut, and nearly as great California Ore
gon and Washington togethe-, or as great
as the area of Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky,
Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas and half of
Louisiana, will be added to the area OF the
United States proper. Utah alone covers
I,9IO square miles, Arizona ll3,O2u and
New Mexico, IT,, $50.
Utah DcbatnbIe Ground
If it had not been for the institution of
polygamy Utah would have become "a state
years ago. She had been knocking urgently
and GENEROUSLY for admission into the
Union for a number of Congresses back
but each time until now she was met at
the threshold with the declaration of our
statesmen, when you conform to the laws
of the Union, and do as other people do,
then We will consider your applica ton"
But in September, iSt0 the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-Day Saints published a
manifesto diSavowing and renouncins
polygamy, and year later petitioned Presi-
gent Harrison for ann esty Tor past offenses
in that regard The desired amnesty was
granted in January, 1S9', and the People
or Mormon Church party was disbanIed
Both the republican and democratic ter
ritorial conventions of 1892 resolved for
statehood, and the last national democratic
platform, drawn at Chicago as well as the
last national republican platform, at Mime
apols, declared in favor of Ctahs early adj
mission. Both political parties believe the
or xyfn hA lAl.a IL,
thus all these consideration served TO re-
move the obstacles that had hitherto barred
the way.
The population of Utah is much greater
than is needed for mere admission as q
state, and now numbers 30 eco souls nearly
20 per cent of whom are native-born Ameri-
cans. Utahs wealth and material develop
n.ent also are much farther advanced than
most people think. The value of real and
personal property in the territory amounts
10 S20,OW,WO. The annual value of her
agricultural products is about so, 700 900
These include all the cereals potatoes hay
fruits, vegetables, alfalfa. cotton, wool
dairy products, honey. sorghum sugar
wine and cider. Besides. in 1891 the ter
ritory produced $SWO,WO worth of silver
s2,JOOO00 of lead, sI25, 900 of gold, and $780,
600 of copper.
Great Natural Resources.
In addition to these metals Utah ebounds
in iron, coal. sulphur, salt, slate, onyx.
HidipIS, BTdliIle ana sandstone. Moreover,
Utah already has 1900 miles of irrigating
canals constructed. owned by communities
and operated for agricultural purposes
She has 2,3C0 miles of railrC ads within her
borders-besides Is miles of street railways
in Salt Lake City. Ogden and Provo and
she has siD3.W0 invested in public school
property Considering the vast natural re-
sources of the territory. and the thrifty
and Industrious character of the people 1t
HkPlV vii TO
the front with surprising rapidity.
Neither Arizona nor New Mexico has
achieved the degree of progress equal with
Utah, but both are declared to he we'll fit
ted for statehood. Marcus Aurelius Smith.
delegate from Arizona and member of the
House committee on territories. prepared
the report upon which the House acted in
passing the enabling act for that territory
Mr.. Smith is q great wdg, despite the an
parent seriousness and even solennity of
his official demeanOr and in his report he
has piled pe1ion on Ossa in a deliciously
humorous and innocent way, to the in
creased advantage and celebrity of his
constituency. ~
Arizona I'm the SupcrIative.
II is refreshingly rare to encounter SO
much quaint drollery in a formal congress
sional report as his report presents. In
reading 1t one can picture Mr.. Smith stand
Ing on the lecture platform, pointer In hand,
before stereopticon view. explaining in
rapturous language the merits and beauties
of the subject delineated on the screen
Every thing he says of Arizona is superIa-
tive. Arizona has more fresh air more good
LAND, more mineral wealth. more varied
products. more of natures gifts, more of
everything-eNcept water and people--than
can be found elsewhere in the world She
is capable, lie says, ''of producing every va
riety Of fruit, vegetable and cereal known to
the temperate zones: She has mines of gold
silver, copper, iron and coal ineXhaustjbIc
in extent; lakes OF salt, springs % petro-
leum, and forests CT pine, cedar, spruce
juniper, ASH ana oak OF as great extent as
any state or territory of the Union That
Part lying south OF the thirty fourth Parallel
is destined to become the most IamousIy
productive portion OF the 2iutc. There the
date, the olive. the Zig, the grape, the lime
the lemon and the Grange grow in rrodgai
prOGCsion. Arizona carries within herself
more OF all the resources of Il great COM
morwsalth than any other state or Terri.
tory. Arizona IS the natural home of the
olive, the fig, the orange The apricot the