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Show ; TALKS AYIT HJTRAYELERS. T. .1. Morris, traveling representative of , the Stuclebnkcr Manufacturing company has just returned to Salt I.iike after an extensive trip of two months duration through Colo. ; r.-nlo, Southern I'tuh and Arizona. Mr. ' Morris makes his headquarters In Salt l.aku and lias supervision of the western agencies , and branches of the StudcbAcr company. ".My trip was a long one, but very pleas-nut," pleas-nut," said Mr. Morris today. "The weather lots been niiignlliecnt and no one could nsk for a more desirable climate tlnin what we have experienced here in I'tsh the present fall and winter. At every point in I lull 1 found the people prosperous and content. In the funning districts big crops have been obtained and nuirkeled ut a good prolit. The mining camps are uil prosperous and nourishing and I ho older camps are experiencing experi-encing a veritable .boom. Districts that have been opi lied fur veins nie not only holding their on n but are going at a remark-able remark-able rate uiiil are belter than ever. New strikes have been made and the possibilities of I'tah'n mining industries are just begin, lug to be realised by the old limer.i even. The outlook for I'luh silver Is very bright "Our hnii-e dors it 11 enormous trade tli'oimhoiit the entire west anil 1 found biisi-ihVss biisi-ihVss ex. -ceding!)' good mid the community seemed full ut business conlideiice. The news of Hie great natural gas strike bad not yet peiielrali d the 1-einoti r loivin mid dis-i dis-i ricts., but on my arrival in the towns near here on my return trip. Sail Lake's new in-dustry in-dustry was almost the sole topic of conversation." conversa-tion." W. A. I'u t.n, the banker and capitalist of Omaha, is among tlie guests who arc tpuir-tcred tpuir-tcred at the elegant Kuutsfnrd. Mr. I'axtuu is heavily interested ill I tali and Is a frequent fre-quent visitor toJZion. lie is the owner of the Ogilen Hot Springs property which be recently acquired at public auction. During a brief talk with the Timks reporter last evening, he slated that be hud been away from Omaha so long thut any news from there that be might, be possessed of was stale by ibis time, aud that his trip to L tali nt this time possessed no public interest. "I'm Just making ii short trip out here on business mailers," said Mr. l'nxton, "and will return home in a few days. 1 have-been have-been in the territory about ten days.'1 After an absence of three weeks ill the east, .lodge C. F. l.oofbotiroiv has returned re-turned home and is doctoring himself for a llrst-class cold that ho obtained at some point on his journey. "From the time I left here until my return home," said the judge, this morning, "I have encountered the most miserable weather I ever experienced. I visited my old home in Western Iowa and spent some time in Omaha and Chicago 011 personal business. The latter city is 11 remarkable one and is a surprise to a person every time it is visited. 'I lie enormous sixteen and twenty story buildings are sights to be wondered at, and tho bust in and activity over Hie preparation for tho World's fair is to be seen at every turn. It Is a pity that Chicago is not possessed of streets like Salt Lake. It would be the best thing In the world for that city, whose street are so narrow as lo be totally inadequate inade-quate to ai commodate the necessary trutlle and they are constantly choked. If the delivery de-livery wagon of a down town establishment has a trip of only twi bhaks distance, it will require fully an hour's time to accoin-plish accoin-plish the journey, and return, so terribly crow ded W illi vehicles of every description arii the business streets. "At Omaha 1 found out about the uattiral gas strike here, and everybody then: is deeply interested over tho news, and an-ions an-ions for information on the subject, it will be a great thing for Salt Lake if a sit It 1 -cicntly adequate supply lias been found here. IVunsylvnuia, Ohio and Indiana have long held a practical monopoly of great manuracturies on account of natural gas, mid other points were shut out of campeti-tlon campeti-tlon on account of their inability to olitaiu fuel at anything like the cheapness of net. oral gas. Manufactories located herewith plenty of cheap natural gas can ship their products cust, to ull points this side of the Missouri at any rate, as well as west," Ben H. II He. of Wichita, Kan., who is stop, jiing at Hie Continental, got into a reiniuis. cent mood the other evening and discussed the big boom of Kansas that nourished a few years ago. The collapse of the town booms, and a succession of crop failures among the farmers left Kansas in a pretty bud tix. Farms were heavily mortgaged, and farm property could not he given away. The farmers alliance sprung up, and the farmers (locked into the organization as their only political refuge. When the election elec-tion came they carried things by storm. "Sockless Jerry" was sent to congress, ami n big alliance delegation to thu legislature. Ingalls, who had so long represented Kansas in the L'niled Stales senate, was shelved, mid l'ctfer and his whiskers were elected to the vacancy. Tho alliance wits 011 top, aud it seemed ns if the other two great political parlies were bound fur the demnitiou bowwows. bow-wows. "Now all is changed," said Mr. Hiie. "Tht! crops of Kansas were enormous las; year and big prices were obtained for it notwithstanding ull the predictions of the political demagogues of the alliance. Farm mortgages have been paid 01T and cancelled anil the farmers have money to bum. The fiirin debts w iped out lust i'all were sonic Ihiiigcuornioiis. The big crop was a body blow to alliance, politicians, and already the. reaction bus set in against Pcllcr, Sockicss Jerry and thut crowd." |