Show HOTEL GOSSIP F A A proprietor of the thu Topeka Capital Immortalized i n by the tha th Rev Shel Sheldon hel heldon don re was vas vas In the city for a few f W WI hours yesterday After Alter taking lunch at atthe atthe atthe I the he proceeded to take in inthe inI inthe the sights of Zion and mid Saltair to board I the train for the est east t in the evening Richard English En gUsh master mechanic for forthe forthe I the Rio Grande Western at Ct t the salubrious ous oue g of Helper came into the zone zono of af civilization on yesterday esterdy When hen seen at the Kenyon last night he stated that the reports that have ema erna emanated from the little railroad burg to the effect that the entire white population isa isaI as 8 I up P in arms against the t e Importation of o the I as section hands were entirely without foundation At the present time he said id there are not more than ten Japanese e employ employed ed as section hands in Helper These men meni i are working on the track east of the fhe town west of Helper all the section hands are white men The balance of these who I i came last week have gone out on the des desert desert desart ert art where It is impossible to get any white whiteman Ilman man to work in the summer time i English says that the Orientals are a decided improvement on o the who heretofore have nave practically had a mo monopoly monopoly on delights of a f summers residence res upon the tho desert in inthe inthe inthe the health giving Chinese bunk houses that are strung along the track at stated intervals James Andrus Andrue of f StGeorge St 51 Geor Geerge e came into town yesterday with half baIt the epidermis on his classic proboscis sacrificed to old sol Andrus expressed himself at the Cul Cullen Cullen Cullen len last night as being tickled to death over the recent rainstorms that have vis via visited visited Washington county in m a fashion that puts the reminiscences of the oldest in inhabitant inhabitant habitant hi in the background He says that the people way down dow d In Dixie are now re rc reveling reveling In j early potatoes potato and nd other oth r epi epicurean epicurean epicurean dainties and generally living on the tho fat of of the land with the comfortable assurance of good times In inthe the immediate future J J Shields a mining man who hails halls I from Los Angeles is among the guests nests that are quartered at the Kenyon n Shields 1 I I when he ho is Ia not reciting the latest story 1 that Is going J the rounds talks Los Ls An AnI I geles Among other things that t that Cal Californian Californian j I health resort rl ort is noted for is es esI I its oil oU fields Last night he said saidI I The discovery discover of oil in the vicinity of Los Angeles has practically ruined some I of the best st residence portion of the city i on oI account of the unsightly derricks that t I have been erected in the neighborhood 1 I The trouble with the people is that those who have in the tIle past dabbled Jn In n oil have I been for the greater part art novices But we are learning learn ing better and lUW the e boring op operations J orations are now itow carried on tho on a more scientific basis The oil industry Is as yet in its infancy as you might say as re regards regards I gards California nevertheless we rank as the fourth state on the list as a producer of petroleum and are just beginning to develop at that Mr Shields states that out ot at Summer Summerland Summerland Summerland land near Los Angeles there is now the novel sight of derricks erected er ted in the sea which pump up the crude oil from the bed of the to ocean o an He tells the same story as indulged in by every resident of south southern southern ern era California who visits visit Salt Lake to the effect that the people in that section of the state are anxiously awaiting the emancipation day when the Salt Lake Los Angeles cutoff will Wm be an accomplished accomplished pUshed fact and nd the two cities be brought into nearer contact generally g eral Y When seen at the White House last la t night H C Morrey Morray of tf Evanston was dis discoursing discoursing coursing on the possibilities of Utah as a fruit growing country As Morrey lorrey has been in the nursery business for the past Jast thirty years and has traveled every ever road In the state for fo nearly as long lon a period he maintains that he knows whereof he sneaks In course of his discussion last night he said If the farmer only knew I It there is more money in fruit than thau in anything else It seems though that th t he has got g t into a rut and there he stays He persists in growing lucerne lucern which out in the country count districts seldom fetches more than 8 5 a ton In the stack Now when he comes to figure up p that is no paying proposition for It costs him fully 3 3 a ton to produce the hay bay from first to last Jast If he be would only raise an orchard he would soon have money in the bank Down at Provo last year some fruit growers cooperated and filled a car with pears and shipped them east ast with the re result suit sult that they got 1 a bushel for their fruit Now one only has to figure up two bushels per tree and each tree In an orchard fifteen feet apart Jart to get gAt at the money there Is in every acre of fruit trees tre s While It Is true that a number of people in this state have gone in for indiscriminate nate fruit tree treat planting they do not seem I I to understand the ilie business and expect the trees to take care of ot themselves instead of attending to them If It a man wants to togo togo togo go into intI the business b he must quit general farming and devote his hie time and attention exclusively to Ms orchards and they will willay willay pay ay him better bett r than any farm ever did didI I before |