Show TALKS WITH TRAVELERS Count Assessor E Spray of Todele is a guest at the While house The drought has not cut such a hard figure with us he said yesterday The dry bench farmers arc giving a very good crop of wheat and the valley generally Is doing well except that there will not he a very large crop of hay Tho water supply secured by Granlsvllle people some years ago from the nearest mountains has proved the salvation of that place more than once and this summer the value of the supply sup-ply has been well established Our grape crop promises to turn out especially espe-cially well this fall Considering the difficulties olher localities are laboring under I do not think Tcoelc has any great call to complain S 9 4 Stockton continues to be a busy place said W G McFarland yesterday yester-day at the White house The mines are producing so much that the railroad rail-road Is put to its utmost to handle all of the business that is offered to it with narrowgauge equipment The Galena King made a good strike lately and the old Hercules now the Cygilet the Jlonerlne and other local properties proper-ties are meeting with success Mr McFarland Is an oldtime mining man and was with the Golden Gate at Mci cur befgre going to Stockton He is now taking his first vacation In nineteen years he says and fortune has smiled so sweetly on him that he is able to take a three months layoiC l and go to the Paris exposition He hopes to become an expert French scholar before his return a t I a Elder James Batcliffc the old resident resi-dent of Granlsvllle Tooolccounty was shaking hands with his numerous friends in Salt Lake City yesterday he having returned on the morning train from a two years mission to Great Britain During the greater portion of his absence he was in the Leeds conference con-ference and he says that this Is the most prosperous of any of the conferences confer-ences connected with the European mission There have been almost if not quite twice as many converts made there as in any of the other missions Tie reports that there Is a great Interest Inter-est being manifested the work of the Mormon elders England generally is fairly prosperous S S S I Benjamin F Johnson an oldtime Salt Laker is up from Mesa City Ariz I visiting with friends Uncle Ben as S he Is called is 82 years old yet very bright He has been a Democrat all his I life until recently but now he is a strong McKinley man In talking with him he said that the principles of Democracy I De-mocracy had so changed that Its policy is not progressive while on the other hand the Republican parly during this Administration had proved to he apart a-part of progress and an Administration Administra-tion that every true American citizen should point to with pride Uncle Ben will not be able to vote for President McKinley this year us his home is In u Territory yet his heart will leap with Joy to see the Republican ticket elected which will mean another four years of prosperity and progression I |