Show TALKS WITH TRAVELERS 5 The large attendance that has filled i the Theater since we began our engagement I en-gagement Is ample evidence that the I people of Salt Lake City appreciate the 1 order of drama and i classic the higher claic when It is presented In the best and I I most artistIc manner do not Hesitate to George Becks of It said l I patronize eks Iltronlz the ONell troupe yesterday it the I Kenyon eJ It Is Just as has been said I before when the classic drama Is not i In this country It I I I I Is properly because patronized It Is not presented by competent I I I com-petent actors There Is something In j most legitimate drama I the higher and legimate 1 that appeals always to the better and 1 I moro cultIvated elements of our nature na-ture and never falls to prove accep 11ver table when Interpreted by properly 1 trained persons Our company leaves this cIty perons with the highest opinion of the cultivation and good taste of Its I people and theatergoer In particular I particu-lar t S 0 S i I I Salt Lake can learn a valuable lesson I les-son from Toledo said A A Martin a i i prominent citizen of that Ohio city I yesterday ctizen Knutsford Toledo I Is 1 city that was made by the railroads I rail-roads of which there are twentytwo entering the town and the population I is now about 1S5000 The more roads I there are entering n city the greater I will he Its measure of prosperity Yea t there has been considerable talk about I cutting a canal directly west of Toledo I across tho Ohio and Indiana northern I line to Lfllco Michigan and Chicago I know this Is a long distance to cut through but the ground Is soft dirt and the country Is level and with the latest mechanisms for excavallon at hand i would not cost so very much to dig that canal O feet wide und twentyfive feet deep and thus save I I SCO miles of round about water way that during parts of tho year Is a source of peril from dangerous storms The ofltalkedof canal across northern New York from Lake Ontario to Lake Champlain and the Hudson would cost too much on account of the topography of the country but a canal ca-nal from Oswego to the Erie canal would be more feasible after the eastern east-ern end of the canal his been enlarged Jt Is claimed that the new Chicago canal ca-nal will enable grain shipments to be made from Duluth In Chicago and I the canal to the Mississippi and the Oulf of Mexico and thence to Europe and other foreign ports without breakIng break-ing bulk This will be a great triumph of Amciicnn enterprise if it can be accomplished S S There Is one thing that Is being made apparent lo Eastern people who may desire to Immigrate to Idaho and that Is that the country Is by no means entirely given up to mining but Is preeminently pre-eminently Titled for the most successful success-ful agricultural effort said T A Harris Har-ris of Idaho Falls at the Kenynn yesterday yes-terday Of into years especially the Slates great agricultural strength has been made manifest You can grow wheat at all altitudes with n yield of thlrtyfhc to fifty bushels to the aero the greater variety being spring h < al Tho berry Is sound and firm so that It Is rarely Injured by storms as In the more Eastern States Oats yield heavily fifty to eighty buahejs to the I acre maturing early and weighing for the most part forty pounds to the I bushel As good barley as can be found I I in Iho country Is grown in Idaho about I forty bushels to the acre and alfalfa produces enormously averaging lye tons to the acre Successful experiments experi-ments have been made in the raising of hops so that thp more Western Stales do not by 1 any means have a monopoly and up to date the pesllfer I ous Insects that have proved so de I I slructive elsewhere are unknown In I Idaho i Idaho Falls has gown from 200 inhabitants I in-habitants in 1892 to 2000 a the present I time and is growing so rapidly as to I give promise of being at no distant 0 day the principal center of eastern Idaho Its business industries include a roller mill and a planing mill besides be-sides banks two newspapers and quite a wide variety of other commercial enterprises commelcal terprIses for so young a town > 0 You can talk about Seattle remarked re-marked Jnm s F Shields at the Knuts ford yesterday but there Is not a city In the United States today that shows the actIvity that can be seen in Sedl tie There Is no town of its size that can show such natiuil location handsome hand-some buildings elegant large stocks of goods in every line both for home consumption I con-sumption and as ouifilters for rushes to dislrcts like Dawson or Nome A I man Is simply astonished to see the I I bustle and actIvity all over the cIty I I reminds me of only one place VII Iz VI-I Chicago In Us palmiest days Ihe cease I I less activity the general getthere atlveness atveness that seems to actuate man I when he reaches there I The cordial greeting given the average I av-erage stranger in Seattle by every one I aeems to warm the heart of the stranger stran-ger itml makes him feel that this is where If he was looking for a loca ton he would realize his Idea The city of Itself has about 100000 people but to the man who visits there for the first time It seems as though the city was three times thai size This is due entirely to the activity of its business busi-ness men As a man going from Salt Lake to Seattle I WAS more than pleased to see Utah so ably represented represent-ed First and foremost was II C Mc Cormlck formerly of Ogden who to his friends Is known as Bob and amore a-more genial fellow never left Utah to become a resident of Seattle He Is part owner of the elegant steamship Oregon which Is about to make its first trip to Nome A great deal of her carrying capacity Is already engaged and her cabin accommodations spoken for She Is a staunch boat and expects to leave Seattle about May 1st making ma-king the trip to Dutch harbor In fifteen days I the Ice Is broken she will goat go-at once to Nome if 1 not In the Judgment Judg-ment of her captain she will endeavor to force her way through the Ice Although Al-though being an Iron boat her owners have strengthened the bow by solid bulkheads making It perfectly safe and adding strength to that part of the shin She Is expected to carry from COO to 1000 pAssenger and will be loaded load-ed with all kinds of merchandise such as may bo demanded by such special occasons as thp present one In a general conversation about the trip the question was naturally asked Wont then be many seamen with you with a view to leave the vessel on Its arrival at Nome simply taking this means of pelting there thus leaving the ship with no one to bring her back to Seattle The reply was made Vc will do perhaps what another captain did once before viz 1 to station two men with Winchester rifles with Instructions In-structions to stop any of the crew from deserting Th crow include fiftyseven men and all hands believe the trip will not only be rapid hut a safe voyage Bob McCormick has associated with him as partner Charles Lane the well known millionaire owner of the Utica mine In California 0 Shuttle pMplc ltc1 the average stranger that now the town Is Quiet and say Must wait until the rush begIns be-gins But when this happens as ox peeled what they In going to do with the people IA i n problem for a wise man If I man I to solve 1 was I younger mal ountrr would Jump into Seattle tomorrow as I think i I all I have said about I the briitemi mot rnejrfetic and growing town on the coaut Portland Tacoma and th balance of them must look to their laurel or they will wake up to had they are at the end of the procw akm a M > have two feet of miw and fine I ulelxhlrM between Granite and Sump ter aid F M Bryan of Granite Or I Jut night at the uHeD The snow I line extend outward to the summit of the divide twentyfive ml toe from the and then dlMp I Idaho line n gradually < ip pears so we will haw plenty of water next summer In fact the State 0 Ore I I I gt > n can hardly be aald to ever Duffer from lack of water In our country may b found as be mining property t a 5 any here In th Putted Stale and 0 the ranges Cr tk ro not to b uri ur-i > 1 To jcarx ago Bumpier was not known on the map Today the town claims 3WO people with all the modern conveniences There Is very fine farm land to the south in the Baker City country and the way immigrants are coming Into our part of the State Is very encourag Ing In fact the whole of the far West seems to be peopling up in the most remarkable way and new communities I are springing up In all directions C E Wantland returned yesterday from his trip to the Fort Worth con I ventlon He said in a talk later I went from Fort Worth on tho adjournment I adjourn-ment of the convention to Austin the capital of Texas to look into the methods I meth-ods of conducting the land business In r that State as Texas owns all Its public I lands But Just what I think of the I Texas system I am not prepared at I present to state The convention a a success In many particulars I took a high Hand In Its discussions and advanced I ad-vanced grounds In Us most important measures I Texas stockmen are already plan I I nlng for their rlp to Salt Lake City I Intending also to make an excursion I to San Francisco after the convention I comCnton I In this city is over A great issue bl I fore the conventoln proved to bo the landleasing question ant the phase of I the situation aa I advocated It was considered the fairest ever presentid I have been especially gratified by the generous remarks of Ihe delegates on their return homo While some people do not appear to realize the Importance of tho land question they will find In the course of a year thai If Western I people do not load off and endeavor to secure what they ought to get rmas I ures will be adopted under pressure i I which may not suit What the people of Salt Lake City I need to do now Is to give a reasonable support to the commlllee to be appointed appoint-ed by the stookmen to take charge of I the next convention and a great crowd I of firstclass people will be out hore next January and do this town a whole I lot of good S S I William Budge president of Boar Lake stake was In the city yesterday He reports the weather in Bear Lake valley about the same as here with practically no snow In the valloy anl but little In the bordering hills Ho says the farmers have made good use of their frozen wheat having fed I to hogs sheep and other stock and have realized about as much from It In that I way as they could by marketing It In Its original condition Paris he says is building I schoolhoift that will cost 20cno which will bo 1 completed in time for the commencement of school In the |