| Show TALKS WITH TRAVELERS Landlord G S Holmes of the KhuiA ford returned yeatcrdtij from his pro longed absence in California looking very wol and feeling In excellent spirits oveV business Invoslmenls He had hud n long i and hard struggle with the grip but man aged to come out Mm bout Ho sold I work on the new Jiolnl nt Los Angoloa I w belngj puishocttts last ns possible with throo HhlftHTof men working duty JUKI nlght and the grcatr stool frame Is going ill rapIdly Los Angeles people arc much Intureslod in a he matter na they lro mhsO Intensely I mores ted In everything with Which Suit Lake Is in any way coimcctud Jn advertising the now hotel Inthe last wo HhalbibrliiK In Salt1 Lake advising till travelers i crossing Uio continent ito go through Salt Luke City J naw nny number of Salt Lnko pcoplo In southern Californium and Los Angeled seems to bo a tort of adjunct lo Utah Tho southern part of California IH irowded with winter visitor I shnll go 1jjjst In two weeks lo purchnso fittings antI furnlihlngH for the new LOM Angeles i I hotel and by the way answers to thecali for a nauio for the hotel aio coming In > y the thoutnnd Mr Holmes wns asked for definite Infor i muLlen about a rumor that he was lo bo f Interested In the new mllllonnridnhalf hotel now going up In San Franclnco but lie declined to make any anirmrilon denial de-nial and said ho had his hands pretty full now with work > Wo have completed surveys oC tljo American Falls I Irrigation company and will shortly let contracts for beginning active oxcavatlon that will not stop until the xvnom Is completed said Judo Shurtllff of Ogden yfcstorday Yo have been operating for eighteen miles up 10 date In connection with the Peoples company but will goon bo moving mov-ing on our own account Th > main canal will bo n recdlnr river hlxly mlleo long and with a prism 05 and 85 feet nnd C filet deep Tho system will Irrigate 73000 acres 1 of land nnd cost 325000 when completed I Tills illl reclaim an area likely to bo Instrumental In-strumental In bringing many settlors Into Idaho and In bringing all these acres Into active cultivation But It will bo two I years before tile system can bo fully coin i plolcd I a That Mammoth reservoir near Fairview Fair-view Is going to bo ono of the greatest Ihlugs In the Slate said Fred Thompson nt Knutsford on his return from that country Bishops ciders and everybody OBO are enthusiastic over the scheme and its stock Is above par The site Is nearly 10000 feet up In the Wnsatch range and is 1 PO situated that water from hue Green river watershed can be turned Into it and the entIre north half of Sanpoto county can be thoroughly Irrigated The resor volr la i a natural basin so that Just so much of the gorge outlet as Is necessary need only bo dammed up Tho lake will bq five and a half miles long and three fourths mile wide and fifty or sixty feet deep This with the romantic surround ings ought to make of the place a amour Jumnier resort Sixty miles of canal havo been surveyed but Just when active work on construction will begin I do not know Sonic llnanclerlng T believe Is necessary I JlraL TIme engineers who did the survey jog un In the mountains have been on Bnowshoes for about threo weeks H S o Rifle Cole Is a raoldlv growing livestock live-stock center said D Downen at the Walker yesterday Especially has this been the case In tho last eighteen months A new hotel of brick has been built opposite oppo-site tho frame one on Main street and quito ahumber of new dwellings are going un over town Cattle are brought In and shipped out at JULIo In Increasing num bers from Meeker and the White River country largely But tho town needs to incorporate Then we can bring In mountain moun-tain spring water from below Rifle Falls Instead of using alkali water our streets kent free from livestock and a series of needed local Improvements and develop montM inaugurated Considerable Utah and Nevada cattle are rjocclved at Rifle for range feeding In tho course of a year |
