Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-09-19

north. The upper part of the peninsC
above the lake is known in the state
as the Upper Peninsula. The lower
part is the Lower Peninsula.
Of course Michigan has been under
one Governor, but for very long time
the people of the upper peninsula nave
felt that they did not receive the same
attention and advantages as the people
on tn enorth. Lake Huron and Lake
of the lower peninsula. Besides that,
they claimed that they were further
north. and subject to different climatic
laws and that, therefore. they should
not be treated the sam cas- the lower
Michigan people.
To settle the dispute, there have been
negotiations pending for some time to
make this peninsula into different
State, and in order to give 1t proper
size. to cut a slice off Wisconsin, this
slice to be added to the peninsula.
Now to determine just what the
new State will be, draw line from
Green Bay westward and little down
ward. to the Mississippi river and then
take all that lies above it as far as
Lake Superior, and you will have the
new State Of Superior as correctly as
can De drawn now
OF al the States in the Union, this
State stands about the best chance OF
making its mark. It has Lake Super
Tor Michigan on the east, on the south
Wisconsin and Lake Michigan, and on
the west Minnesota, the MISSISSIPPI
river and little Of Lake Superior.
Besides this magnificent location the
State of Superior starts in with a pop
ulation of nearly one million people.
It's size will about correspond to that
Of Kentucky, which 1t also resembles
in shape 1t is well watered by many
small rivers and it contains sea coast
which is second to no other State.
Besides this, Superior has an mex
haustible mining supply. 1t contains
| iron and copper enough, were its out
put fully worked, to supply the whole
world, and its building stone is re-
marbable all across the country. Its
/ mining facilities make it a Klondike
I ia copper
Its cities, though not as large as
| those of the lower peninsula, are very
| flourishing, and West Superior, which
| will be the metropolis Of the new State,
! is considered finer in it's possibilities
( than any other city Of the Central
/ United States.
! The way in which Michigan came TO
/ have an upper peninsula and the man
/ ner in which it was divided is very in
! teresting. Michigan was the thirteenth
\ State admitted into the Union and
came in by act Of Congress in January
I 1897. 1t extended further south than
! ii now does and westward to the Mis-
souri, river, but owing to some political
| deal on its admission, a part Of its
! southern border was cut of and given
to Ohio. A strip had also been given
TO Indiana a few years before After
| Michigan became fully settled as a
State the Governor Of Michigan made
great fuss about these slices that had
been cut off and so. TO quiet him. whai
is now known as the Upper Peninsula
was granted 10 him. This made
| State that was separated b. a graai
body OF water. but Notwithstanding
this obstacle, Micigan has always ruled
both its upper and lower peninsulas al
| we'll.
OF late. however, the people of tn.
| Upper Peninsula have felt greatl,
sighted at times. They think that
with Lansing and Detroit in the Lowe
Peninsula, the laws Of the State wer
made more for the part containing tn
capital and metropolis than the part II
which they were living. They hav
pointed to their beautiful islands. th
| greatest Of which is the Isle OF Roya