Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1895 — A NEW STATE. [ARTICLE]

A NEW STATE.

The politicians of the great northwest have become impressed with the idea th at there are. not enough aftices to go around, and are casting tbout to find a remedy for the aggravating situation. They believe now that they have solved the prob em in a satisfactory way. In short they think there is plenty of "dirt" n that region out of which to construct’a new State without seriously .nterfering with the domestic economy or autonomy of the various commonwealths whose boundary lines are to be changed. The plan is said to be the “invention” of Capt. McDougalT, the inventor of the whaleback steamship. Three States are to be drawn upon—Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. The new State will be called “Superior,” or “the mineral State.” The proposed State would be founded on the north by Canada, on the west by the Mississippi river, on the south by a ine drawn from the Mississippi along the southern boundary of the northern tior of Wisconsin counties terminating at the extreme tip of the upper peninsula. The eastern boundary would be the lakes. The alleged aim of the projectors of the new commonwealth is to place the three great iron ranges—the Vermillion, Mesaba and Gogebic—in one State so that legislation in regard to the iron interests might be enacted that would not be conflicting. I’he new State would become the ’orty-fifth in the union. It is claimed hat the territory contiguous to Duuth and Superior is so isolated from noth Minnesota and Wisconsin as to aave no interests in common with lie southern parts of the States aamed, and the same rule governs the northern peninsula of Michigan. The project is by no means unreasonable or visionary. The new State would be one of the wealthiest in the anion. It would have 500 miles of water front. Agitation of the sublet will begin immediately throughout the three commonwealths interested. and the representatives in the several legislatures who come from ‘he territory immediately involved will, it is understood, begin “pipeaying” at once in order to bring ibout their purpose. The new State would be strongly Republican, a fact which will not injure the prospects if the enterprise in the minds of the present Congress.