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Show , THE POINT OF VIEW- Some Julet Observations Made by a Ke-porter Ke-porter on his Karly Round, i A smiling face round as the full moon greets the passer-by from over the corner door of the new-Commercial building. It is skillfully carved in the living stone'. The ehseks are fat and every wrinkle seems drawn into a good-humored cune. The eyes look out from under fat lids with a benign expression. The face, and it is one to invite attention, is set in a perfect circle. This face looks down from over the entrance of what will be tho banking rooms. Was it meant for the god of good luck? Tho lines on cither side instead of twisting from, all seem to tend in and the whole conception seems to express in mute language a desire to tell of something better behind. Was this design or accident? In all probability prob-ability accident, but it was a lucky accident and it is au omen that augurs well for tho institution soon to do business busi-ness back of the jollv fat face.' Some people want tho whole earth4, at least in Salt Lake some seem to be trying try-ing to fence it all in. Every man who puts up a building in the business part of the city seems to think that ho has a right fence in the entire street. Two high board fences now all but close Second .South street at the West Temple crossing. On the north corner is the excavation for the Kelsey & Gillespie building, and just opposite is the Dooley building. Both have tried to fence in the whole street, and tho result is that there is barely room for a wagon to pass on either side of the street car track. While almost closing up Second South street, both have at the same time laid claim to a large section of W est Temple street. ' These high board fences are an insult to the orderly and respectable citizens. They have no cracks at least none wide enough to see through and what man likes to liaug by his chin to the top of a board fence wnile he investigates what is going on on the other side? And everybody wants to know and has a right to know what is going on on the other side. Thus are the rights of tho citizens trampled on by bloated aristocrats aristo-crats who have money enough to build seven story business blocks. ' . ' AJcheerful, side-whiskered young optimist, op-timist, standing six foot two in his stocking feet drifted in from Connecticut Connecti-cut the other day. lie was rather disappointed dis-appointed but that was not allowed to shake his faith in his fellow man and he sought him a furnished room and with a smile on bis bland Yankee countenance, coun-tenance, ilarted out "to rustic." "I expected to find a crowd at the depot ready to grab me tho minute I got off tho car," he said. "I thought that they would fight for who would get tho benefit of my services. But it was not so and now I am 'skating' in the 'wild and wooly west.' " This lair young son of the effete east was an expert dress-goods salesman but a few days after making this wail ho was collector for a local art companyone com-panyone of the firms that charges you'a small fortuue for a very poor crayon portrait of your deceased relatives. rela-tives. The hopeful smile never left his face. Ho journeyed to Eureka, to Park City, to Bingham; walked until ho wore one and a half inches off the bottom of his legs; was abused by peo-plo peo-plo who had been swindled bv his employers; em-ployers; was laid over out on the desert by ' the miserable service of branch roads; got stuck in the mud, but still ho smiles. Twelve and a half tons of diamonds! To think of it makes an ordinary man fall down in a dead faint. Mr. II. L. Wobster, the genial manager of the Langtaagle mining company, whose headquarters are in tho Transvaal, the tiny Dutch republic, in South Africa, whoso pooplo wagod a long and successful success-ful war against Kaffir and Zulu, and then another equally long and success fid fight against tho encroachments of the British lion, however, talks of that bulk of precious stones without even stammering. This is about the amount of the glittering stones exported from the diamond mines of (Iriqua land West since tho opening of that industry in IHlifl. This region includes the famous Kimberly diamond field. The total weight of the diamonds lawfully real-izeil real-izeil from that field, ho says, is computed com-puted by the government inspector at ten tons, and to that amount must be added about 25 per cent as a moderate estimate for the illicitly procured stones. Tho stones found during the year 1HND alone were worth $20,500,000. Mr. Webster is visiting the mines of Utah, and is now at the Continental. |