Show SENATOR CLARK GIVES HOPEFUL VIEW OF FUTURE Business Interests Expect Im Improvement Improvement Improvement provement Without Vio Violent Violent Violent lent Upturn TERRITORY DEVELOPING ALONG SALT LAKE ROUTE PERMANENT WEALTH OF NE NEVADA NEVADA NEVADA VADA CAMPS IS GOOD FOR SALT LAKE Former r Senator W A Clark of ot Mon Monr Montana Ion tana accompanied by b Charles Chal s W IV Clark his son arrived In yes yesterday yesterday In his private Far ear car after arter trIP of Inspection over the San edro Los Angeles Salt Lake road and ana its branches He re business Im Improving improving proving on the road with every 4 cation of continued betterment due to the development of Nevadas mines and the Increase In through traffic millie following ij j the gradual return to normal condi condl conditions u in mercantile and manufacturing lines fruit crop this year Is another promising feature of tile the U e traffic outlook and th the situation gen generally emIly as affecting the railroad is most l encouraging Asked what he thought about the re result r suIt sult of ot the election the senator se ator smiled a Democratic smile and remarked That hat I he had been beaten often otten enough to take his hll medicine cheerfully when he had to I 1 was sorry som to see Bee the Demo Democrats Democrats lose he said but the odds were against UP us and too heavy heay to be over overcome o overcome er come I believe Mr Ir Taft will be con conservative cont conservative t and give a good administration tion I know him personally er and re regard regard regard gard hint as an all able man Whether he heIs heis Is Js controlled by b Roosevelt or not will have haye much to do with the good or evil his administration may ma do and in the th east it Is IR believed he will be much less l i radical than his predecessor I Business Interests Confident In ln any an event fent continued the sen senator senator senator ator Tie le business interests of ot the country have confidence in the future fure of the country they the have haye got over Dyer the uncertainty that always prevails In n the excitement of a prudential presidential Ir nUal election and they the will begin to branch out Into new nev undertakings with more confidence Merchandise stocks the country over oer have hae been allowed to get below require requirements requirements ments and I look to see more activity In the way wa of new lie orders to replenish stocks Altogether the outlook Is Cheerful though J am not n t p tiffS arty Immediate and dt t u nurn Inin Jn financial affairs suejo as IS of ot some the tho J politicians predicted would follow tollo In Incase l case ease of Tafts election electon The stock mar ket hot has been supported for tor a a while by large financial interests ts but they are likely now fl to let the market take Ill t natural course without any my stimulus Recovery to be permanent will have Ita ye to be slow One thing that prevents any sudden wave wae of prosperity Is the inability and unwillingness of or the railroads to attempt at attempt attempt tempt extensions or improvements on onan any an large lare scale They The r are still suffer ing from toni the epidemic of hostility to them which began at the head of ot the tile I nation and spread through the state legislatures until the railroads found themselves up against legislation which crippled them seriously discredited their securities so they the could not get new capital for Important Improve Improvements Improvement improvements ments ment and compelled com Jelled them to curtail any new outlay until more favorable conditions return They TIle are able to carry cam on their business all right but buta a good gooi many man of them have had to re to resort sort to extreme economy conomy f In order to meet reductions of ot revenue imposed by unreasonable legislation Of course cour this reacts on the people and they suf sur fer with the railroads rall oads but meanwhile I there Is no thought of new building Shoshone Is Big Thing Turning to the development on tho the N Salt Lake road which he has ha just traversed Senator Clark spoke enthusiastically of the way Nevadas camps are proving their permanent wealth Speaking of he said Id his first fint impression of or the camp three years ago al was wac favorable fa 0 rabe and subsequent visits had convinced him he lie had beep beel top to con conservative conservative in WB lois Jarl arIy opinion He vie vis visited the Consolidated mill and found It was a model in equipment and opera operation operation tion lion and he oun th mining situation atlon In shape hAt At the Montgomery Shoshone In Bullfrog district the mine Is In first 5 I class shape and about ia a month In bullion and Ind concentrates It costs them only a ton to mine and mill the ore id I was wag reliably In Informed informed i formed they have lian reserves enough h to torun torun torun run the mill for tor n two o years ars without fur further further further ther development nt It takes only five fic men men to keep the mill mm going and my Im Impression II Is Js that It Is a prop property property property erty anti and is If being handled well wellIn ell 1 In ln Pioche a good deal of develop development development ment Is Js being bein done a number of small hoists are going g In and operations operation on or onan onan oran an extensive plan are contemplated by some of the owners Some Pom S me or ore Is IR bein belne beIng shipped regularly and although most of or the output now is low grade th t the camp has ha all the elements of ot perma permit Continued on Page 2 SENATOR CLARK CL RK GIVES HOPEFUL VIEW OF FUTURE Continued From Page 1 nence and Is likely to develop some val valuable valuable al able properties Outlook k for fot Copper Discussing the outlook k for copper copp r on or which he is a recognized authority the tho te senator said sid he looked for fo a steady st dy mar market r market r ket with wih a probable rise to about abut 15 cents although he does not expect any sharp advance In the price of ot metal and thinks it would be a misfortune for forit forIt forIt it to go to any extreme figure At 15 or 16 cents cent he continued domestic consumption can be he depended upon for tor fora tora a steady stead demand and our foreign mar market market market ket which Is good now wi will hold good The European supply in sight Is less les than pounds not more than thana a months supply but the home con consumption consumption is not much than 40 per percent percent percent cent of ot normal noral while the present preset pro production production ducton Is about 80 SO per cent of ot the nor normal normal normal mal taking 1907 as a a basis American dealers de have no large surplus sUllus In hand hands erl and as I business conditions improve they will wi be In the larket for tor larger purchases We are not n t likely to repeat I Ithe the blunder of ot 1907 and have copper go goto goto goto to abnormally high figures with wih a certainly certainly that a reaction would set hi In mand and demoralize the copper business but I look ook for tor a good steady larket around 15 cents and the producers producer can make money at that that Senator Clark said zid sid he had noticed he the the evidences of solid sold prosperity In hi Salt Sal I Lake Cake as shown by Its It remarkable building movement and the te of at activity In the stores and on n the streets I believe beleve he said sith em emphasis em emphasis that tha Salt Satt Lake Lak Is going ahead ahei t faster ster right now than other city In Inte inthe te he the west west There Is good reason for It I too oo It I has a magnificent natural loca location loc location tion ton for a city It I commands a great commercial territory It has h become s one of the Important railroad centers of ot the country countr and It i has nearby a most un unusual unusual unusual usual combination of agricultural hor horticultural and mining resources together er with wih livestock interests Interest that are bound b und to make Its prosperity perma permanent pena permanent nent nent I have always had great greit conf dence In tn the city and am an more mor firmly convinced now than ever eer that It Is de dc destined de to be one of the great geat centers of the he west wet After fter conferring with wit the te officials of the Salt Lake Route here Sal her and with wit others associated with wih him hi In business affairs today the thc senator wilt will leave leae tor for Butte Bute |