Show TALKS WITH TRAVELERS Assistant Superintendent W S Mc GinnSss of the railway mall service and representing the Second Assistant PostmasterGeneral Is a guest at the Cullen en route on an Inspection trip over the Western country Tie is a great believer In giving the public all the postal facilities possible over the railways In a talk last night Air Mc Ginnlss said I have been through all of the Southern States except Arkansas Arkan-sas and Texas and everywhere I noted the most practical evidences of the return re-turn of prosperity to the Nation This was also noted in HIP vastly Increased business of the railway mail service the Immense Increase In the amount or matter carried l the way through North Carolina It seemed as though there was nothing but one long line of cotton factories all in full operation running night as well as day and giving giv-ing employment to thousands of people who might not be otherwise employed From one end of the great State of Pennsylvania the country Is lurid night and days with the fires and smoke from countless claimneys forges furnaces fur-naces and coke ovens I never saw anything like it I have just been In Idaho arranging for the Installation of a mail service over the new branch line of the Short Line between Idaho Falls and Sl Anthony An-thony This will insure the delivery of outside malls to the people o Bing ham and Fremont counties twentyfour hours earlier than at present 1 had the far Western people very live and energetic and am much fascinated with the thrift and enterprise to be seen There Is great promise for the West And with the acquisition of the Pacific Islands the West will be before long able to say to the East if your markets do not suit us we have now the Hawaiian and Asiatic fields to turn to Every man in the far West ought to be an expansionist Sir McGInniss leaves shortly for Ida ho again on business connected with the service returning < little later to Inspect affairs In this Slate ere leaving for the East o 0 The Jewelry trade is In a satisfac tory condition all over the country said E n Dana of New York at the Konyon yesterday Up to the last two years and for five or six years previous people were contenting themselves with gewgaw stuff and cheap novelties on account of course of the hard times But now that people have more means they are calling for standard genuine goods and lIe goods and rolled plate do not go as much as they did Some Inns pretend to guarantee twenty years for this latter class of goods but the gold wears cass and the baser metal within is sure to crop out long before It Is expected to Then Is nothing like the genuine solid gold for wear Swiss watches are not brought Into this country as they used to be because the standard stanlald American watch has proved of such excellence as well as cheapness and durability that there is dlrabil no market heic for the foreign make However In the more Costly fancy watches such as I contain chimes the Swiss watch holds Its own I It may seem strange but It Is a fact that Ihe price of silverware does not fall with the fall In the pIle and estate of the metal for coinage purposes and sterling ware IB very little lower than it was before the demonetization of sil ver This Is because of Ihe cost of manufacturing man-ufacturing The headquarters of the trade continue in Maiden Lane New York I look for a much better trade during the current year limn In 1S09 and during the last year It I was a vast Improvement of the trade of the year before I a Stockton I is a very busy place said J T Ruddatz at the Cullen yesterday At the Ilonerlne mine the Joncrlne new compressor com-pressor Is I about completed 0 new SO hoisopower boiler Is being put in the bucket way is being changed In the II main shaft lo 1 skip way and the main station PUlP Is I being replaced with anew a-new and more powerful J one with a capacity ca-pacity of 700 gallons a minute What we need out In Stockton is better railroad facilities We want n broadgaugo road as this shifting of loads from one gauge to another Is be conic U good deal of a nuisance and hampers operations The Short Line ought to vlden the road between Salt Lake and Stockton a 1 There has been l talk for some years of on canal from Mlnldoka on the Snake river south to the Utah line laud perhaps as far I rfs Corinno said Mayor Moon of St Anthony at the Cul len yesterday and It may amount to something more than talk Such a canal would cost 0 large sum of money but the Immense acreage IrrIgated would It seems to me pay for the outlay out-lay l I do not think the engineering obstacles ob-stacles are anything very great and be hope carried that the through scheme will at some time |