The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 16, July 1912 - April, 1913 Page: 249
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The Question of the Eastern Boundary of California 249
range of mountains that separate said waters flowing into the Co-
lumbia river on the north from the waters flowing into the Great
Basin on the south, to the summit of the Wind river chain of
mountains; thence southeast and south by the dividing range of
mountains that separate the waters flowing into the Gulf of
Mexico from the waters flowing into the Gulf of California, to
the place of beginning, as set forth in the map drawn by Charles
Preuss, and published by the order of the United States in 1848.'
On the 5th of July, Almon Babbitt was elected delegate to
Congress and three days later a memorial asking for admission
into the Union as a state was adopted by both houses of the leg-
islature.2 On the 6th of September, by order of President Taylor,
General John Wilson, United States Indian agent, held a consulta-
tion with Brigham Young, Heber Kimball, Willard Richards and
other Mormons to see if some arrangements could be made for
temporarily uniting the whole of the California territory under.
one government for the purpose of keeping the slavery question out
of Congress.- At the beginning of 1851 the union was to, be dis-
solved and Deseret and California were to become separate states:
As a result of the conference5 John Wilson and Amasa Lyman were
sent as delegates to California. On the 8th of January, 1850, they
.addressed a communication from San Francisco to Governor Bur-
nett in which they informed him that they had been appointed by
the people of the Great Salt Lake Valley and Basin, as representa-
tives to any convention which might assemble in California, west
of the Sierra Nevada, to form a constitution.0 "Our constituents
will regret to learn that before their delegates did or could arrive
here, the Convention had met, concluded their labors, and ad-
journed, thereby closing all opportunity, for the time, for their
delegates to enter upon the discharge of their duty." They were
communicating with the governor, they said, and through him with
the legislature, to see if arrangements could be made for calling
another convention in which the delegates of Eastern California
'Journals of California Legislature, 1850, 1st Session, 443-444.
'Bancroft, Utah, 444.
'For an account of this conversation see Young's letter given above, page
244, note.
4Bancroft, Utah, 446.
5Ibid.
'Journals of the California Legislature, 1850, 1st Session, 436.
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