The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1921-07-16
WOULD CREATE NEW
STATES ON COAST

A movement Is now on foot to Gre
ate three new states out of west coast
territory. The new commonwealths
will be Lincoln. Jefferson and Column
bis. II the movement succeeds.
The plan to create three new po-
litical divisions of the United States
has its inception In demand for
more representation for the great
west and Its tremendously developed
resources. Eastern Washington leg
islators are uniting with those Of
northern Idaho to create the new
state Of Lincoln. A convention Is to
be called In Spokane In September
to promote the enterprise and is to
be attended by state and federal rep
resentatives.
A great mining and stock-raising
country is being carved out of west
ern Colorado. eastern Utah and a
slice OF southern Wyoming. Another
new state IL to be built along the
Pacific ocean out of southwestern
Oregon and northern California. In
the order named these new states are
to be named Lincoln. Jefferson and
Columbia. II the plan is successful.
Other talk OF political subdivision
adjustments Is being INDUCED In In
other quarters. according to the Spo
kane Spokesman Review. which has
the following to say on the subject:
The political division known as
forming new states has had an Amer
lean revival during the past few
months. Idaho and Washington are
not the only commonwealths in the
United States where there has been
talk Of political divorces and second
marriages. New York has mentioned
making the metropolis into the state
OF Manhattan. Before this year Cali
fornia. Illinois. Michigan, Montana.
Oklahoma, Oregon. Texas and West
Virginia have had division under dis
cussion. We're the separatist or Sc
ceding fever to reach the grand eli
max there would be neaaer sixty
than forty eight states.
New York State and New York
City have long had difhculty In get
ting along together. and there are
more than q few good reasons why
dependent existence and government
would prove beneficial to both. North
srn Californians and Southern Cali
fornians have little community Of In
terest and sentiment for dividing the
state In two has long existed. The
peninsula of Michigan and the portion
OF Michigan along Lake Superior do
not belong together. and the northern
half ought to have been made a part
OF Wisconsin. Eastern Montana is
agricultural. but western Montana is
devoted to mining and numbering. SO
that many Montanans believe that the
state will eventually split In the mid
die. Some Oklahomans desire to
have the Indian territory of old set
up again, the sentiment being racial
and existing among Indians as well
as the whites. Texas has the right by
It's enabling act to become Ave states
II II should ever desire to do so. West
virginia's northern neck is 80 anti
prohibitionist. whereas the southern
portion Is prohibitionist. like eastern
Texas and western Texas. respec-
lively. that the panhandle offered to
assume the states debt of $4,000. 900
II western Virginia would only con-
sent TO the separation.
Congress has been led to believe
from the spread Of the movements
for new commonwealth that the time
Ia near when several, II not all. OF
these proposed secessions will sue
coed. But the rich and populous
states OF the east can hardly be ex-
pected to smile on the possibility OF
sparsely peopied states in the west
having increased power in the ma
tional Senate through the formation
Of other states. The practical argu-
ment against making Ave states from
Texas is the political argument that
Republicans could not endure the ap-
pearance Of eight additional senators
who in all human probability would
permanently align with the Demo-
tu