Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1921-02-17
I'D COUNTIES
INCLUDED IN
N0RTH'S PLAN
Resolution Introduced in Ida
no Senate Asking for Com
plete Divorce from South
Measure Calls for Constitu-
tional Convention to Meet
in Moscow on Goth of June

Northern Idaho on Tuesday asked
permission of the Sixteenth Idaho
legislature to secede. A resolu-
tion was introduced in the SEN
ate of which Senators Christensen,
Featherstone, johnson, Rehberg,
Jones, Fisher, Kerrick, HALEY, King
and Porter are the joint authors, call
ing for the holding of a convention
in the administration building at the
University of Idaho, Moscow, June 20,
1921, of delegates from the various
counties included in the proposed new
state for the purpose of adopting
constitution to be submitted to the
electors of the new state, for their
adoption or rejection.
The boundary lines of the new state
as outlined in the resolution include
the ten northern Idaho counties. This
territory claims population of $780,
600 people, an area of $4,000 square
miles and property valuations of $780,
100000.
TEXT OF RESOLUTION
The resolution, as introduced in the
senate with reference to permission of
northern Idaho to secede, is in part
as follows:
"Be it resolved by the senate of the
state of Idaho, the house cOncurring,
that consent is hereby granted for
the congress of the United States to
create a new state out of all that ter
ritory no a part of the state of Idaho
described as follows, to-wit: Com
mencing at point in the center of
the channel of the Snake river at the
intersectio of said channel with the
south line of section 2, township %
north, range west, Boise meridian,
when the said line is surveyed, said
line being the northern boundary of
Adams county, thence east along said
line as surveyed or to be surveyed, to
the intersection of said line and the
center of the channel of Little Salmon
river, thence up the center of Little
Salmon river to it's intersection with
the line between township 20 north
and township 81 north of the Boise
base line, thence east along said town
ship line to its intersection to the top
of the divide separating the water
shed of the Salmon river from the
watershed of the Snake river, thence
following the top of said divide to its
intersection with the line between the
states of Montana and Idaho, thence
following the boundary line between
said states in a northwesterly and
northerly direction to point where it
intersects the national boundary,
thence west following the national
boundary to the boundary line be-
tween the states of Idaho and Wash
ington, thence in a southerly direc-
ton following the boundary line be-
tween the states of Idaho and Wash
ngton and Idaho and Oregon to the
point of beginning.
TO FORM CONSTITUTION
Authority is hereby granted to the
citizens of the territory hereby pro-
posed to be formed into q state to
hold q constitutional convention to
be convened at the administration
building at the university of Idaho, at
the city of Moscow on the goth day
of June A. D. 1921, at II o'clock noon
of said day, for the purpose of formu-
lating and submitting to the qualified
electors resident of such territory for
their rejection or approval, a consti-
tuition for such proposed state, and
with that end in veiw to select dele
gates to such convention to be APP
portioned among the counties com
prising that territory, as hereinafter
provided. Such delegates shall be
chosen in such manner as the county
commissioners of their counties, re-
spectively, shall determine; provided
that neither the expense of holding
o,,r o1ao+ion for the nurDOse of select