Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1919-02-15
NO PART OF MOHAVE COUNTY
 FOR SALEOR TRADE TO UTAH
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 would builG roads through the Dixie country is nonsense. Utah has no roads through any part of it's do- main, and it would be improbable that
 ths purchase of these new lands would change the policy of the state in re- gard to road building. Washington county, Utah, to which the strip would be annexed, has a big area of country and practically no roads. It has only small amount of taxable property; it's schools either run five months a year or are kept up by popular subscription; its county offic- CTS are underpaid, and it's teachers are among the poorest paid workers in the country. It would be impos- sible for Washington county to build roads anywhere and the people of our strip would be burdened by heavier tax and get less for it than under present conditions. And as for the formation of a new county, which has been suggested by our alfalfa friends of the Salt River valley, we would say that in that line there will be nothing doing. The people of our strip are satisfied with present con- ditions and so is the south part of the county. When the time comes Mohave County will willingly re- linquish the strip to new county government, but for the present com munities are too far apart and the taxable property is too small to maintain county government. From Littlefield, the westernmost town in the strip, to Short Creek, in the east part, the distance is more than 100 miles, with no intervening towns and only a few ranches. The trip would have to be made by way of St. George, which is 65 miles east erly of Littlefield, and then through a portion of Utah to the settlement on one of the branches of the Vir- gin .river, approximately the same distance. Utah has some country on the west side of the Virgin noun tains, why would it not be we'll for Nevada to lay claim to these lands because they are in an open area and adjoining the level lands of that state. Utah has some inaccessible lands of her own, but she is not giv- ing them away to other states for that reason, and Arizona is not ped ding any of her lands because a neighboring state has covetous eyes upon them.
 The main reasons why Utah wants our strip is the lumber that may be taken from the great plateaus, its grazing lands, it's vast mineral wealth, its picturesque scenery, and lastly it's possibility for one of the greatest irrigation schemes in the country, the big dam on the Virgin near Litlefield, which is said by en- gineers to make possible the recla- mation of fully 300,000 acres of lands on Mesquite flats, more than 100000 acres of which lie in Mohave county, the balance being in Utah and Ne vada. These lands are among the richest in the county and would make that section one of the rich est agricultural divisions of the three states. We know that our state officers know nothing of the riches of this country, or even of any portion of the nortfL because they are too deeply absorbed in the boosting of their own games in other quarters of the state.
 Governor Campbell appeared to grasp the situation regarding the strip when he stated:
 "The visit of the Utah dele