Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1899-11-28
MOVING WESTWARD.
As Locality "Hest. Travels Each
Year Further Towards the
Setting Sun.

The query, where is the west ?"-
the west as a locality and not as a Lint
of the compass for several rea-
sons. acquired new interest in recent
times. In the political nomenclai rrc
q the latter part of the da. when
slavery was in existence kentuci :,
Tennessee and Missouri were classeo
with the south, although in the earlier
tires all three Of these states wcrt
considered, and rightly so. part of the
west. 1t was as western states th-.
Kentucky and Tennessee, under Spc
CT tlsy, OF the former state. turned .ac
seale i, favor of war against Englan.
IN 1872. and coereed the beacc-lo, III
Madison, against the counsel OF III
Other nan of peace. Jefferson into tht
adoption o9 a war policy. II was as !;
western state that the northern mem
hera Of congress in 1Sl0-'20 sought 10
shut slavery ont ef Missouri.
graphically speaking, it was in
i.es haf The west began to have local
Ia .t.,iion and name. That was IT,,
yeaF n which the colony OF Manass,
NaileT, samuel Parsons and Rufus Put
LIN iaid hs foundations OF Ohio III.
pioneers of Kentucky and Tenrcsse
lad planted settlements in their local
tics earlisr than this, but ktntuci,
WAS then regarded merely as an exten.
sion OF Virginia. and Tennessee IN
eloneal ION Of North Carolina. Ohio, OF
he Other land, rs we'll as the rest OF ths
states of til old northwest territory
were considered from the outset to b,
embryo eomnlonNealths Ii was ar
ranged FROM he beginning Of their ex
issenee that these were TO be separate
STATES, which were TO have all the "oM
ers and to be subject to all the obliga.
tions of the original ID members OF III
National sisterhoed. As ccncrct,
geographical faet the west as localit'
lad - he"innin" ON that Arril day il
liss when fufnam's and Parsons May
tlowes, with its LOAD Of pioneers iIol
New i.n Hand. sailed down he Ohio an,
planted &. Il settlement at the moutl
Of he Ma; l.ingum.
Is i geo Eraphical mark the wesi
WIS continually receding line fror
the beginning Of the government Oh
ward until few years ago, hen III
Pacific slope started to- become wite
settled j hundred years ago ''O,.
Nesi meant anywhere from Rocheste
or haiaiG .oulh 10 Gordonvlle, Va, o,
tireeas borough. \. {. The line move,
sloHi8 Fer the neNi few years. bui aftt.
the Introduction Of steaiate..ta on II
rivers wssi OF The .Alleghenies and IL
advance of he VERGE Of the settled ares
to the prairie country the march lel
eeniibly Quielsened. When Daiie
Boone died IA ise0 the western verge
the ssltiad area of the United State
had sehed him IN Missouri. Kit Car
son saae il cross tie Rocky mountain!
and "a years go, when the state {.
Washington WIS admitted. the vesteri
.ina occupied the Pacific shore from IL
Me4se.in boundary to Canada. The Oh.
classiiieations OF the states has become
obsolete.
lhe Mississippi and not the ALE.
giiaaies should be considered the divid
Jig lie between the east aud the west.
While ihe population center has not ye.
reached the Mississippi, the geograph
ieallg center, exclusive of Alaska ant
the recent acquisitions of territory, i
in Smith county, Kan. As Pixies Sc
called American Sahara. which is il
reality among the most fertile regions
Of The country. fills upwith inhabtani,
the population center will approach ii
geographical center and render /
change IN the old political classification
of fne states even more necessary than
IT IS nov. Historically, socially, gee
graphically, and politically the west i
an exceedingly interesting part of III.
country, but il becomes constantly
more and more difficult to answer the
question: "Where is the west ?"-St.
Iouis t,lohp. DprsOprat