Show I I TALKS WITH TRAVELERS j Manager T A Harris of the Idaho I Immigration company is at the Ken i yon fiom Idaho Falls on a business I I trip He said yesterday to a Tribune I lepresentailve The upper Snake fiver valley Is a wonderful country extending from American Falls where I that fine electric plant is located 160 miles to Marysale All of this country coun-try t Is under irrigation or subIrriga tion and as there Is plenty of water for all demands that may be made now or at any future time the prospects for rapid and effectvc development are very bright There are great timber tracts to the east of the valley and toward the west there is an abundance of several varieties of cedar Moreover coal has been discovered twenty miles from Idaho Falls and the find is slgnlllcant In that heretofore hereto-fore It has been generally thought that there was no coal In tho Stale An unlimited amount of wheat and barley can be grown in the valley the ranges are well equipped for maintenance of stock and the mining prospects in the mountains Indicate immense undeveloped undevel-oped fields for profitable mining effort ef-fort The valley Is filling up fast I know of one point where a year 1 ago there were no houses I was able recently 1 to stand on the roof of R house and see llftyseven teams at work The newcomers new-comers are largely from Iowa and they bring their thrift and enterprise with them They build houses such as obtain back in the older States they keep a variety of stock and give to their surroundings an air of permanency perma-nency and stability We are building stone houses at Idaho Falls as there Is a superabundance of good rock close at hand It cuts easy being soft hardening hard-ening after exposure to the air The trafllc In and out of the valley Is steadily stead-ily Increasing as new people come in and establish themselves In business I or in Home industry and the climate and fertility of the valley are such as to give that part of the State a most favorable and envious repu tat ion 9 When I left Elko the weather was so warm that men were about In their I shirt sleeve said Kan Steelo of Pus caroru at the White house yesterday The grass and grain had begun to grow and the roads were all dry Of course when the cold snaps come as most assuredly they will this new and abnormal growth of vegetation will all be killed off The stock are still out on the ranges and the only case of feeding that I know of was where one man was feeding a bunch of 100 steers so as to fatten them quickly for the market Our mining industries are In good shape but at the same time I would not advise men out of work to come over there In expectation of find Ing work made to order a W B Kortz of Welser Is a firm be hover from many years residence in Idaho In thf remarkable future gen erally conceded to that State He remarked re-marked yesterday at the Ken on There Is every Indication that opera tions on the great copper properties for which Washington county has become be-come famous will be resumed with greater vigor than ever before in the spring Moreover President Shelby ot the P I X road bias stated that the line would be extended further on In the spring beyond Cambridge and you know the road Is now being op eratod for forty miles from Welser There Is more than a probability of a Kmellei about sixty miles north of Welser If reports are to be bclleved from mining men and this It Is un dcrstood Is haslenng the railroads ex I tension northward The Salubrla val hey Is attracting considerable atten tion from Us marvelous fertility and nalubrlty of climate and by the way people arc flocking Into that section of the State I should say that In a few t years It will i bo one of tho most popu 1 bus of any locality In the West I I have been traveling through eastern east-ern Oregon and northern Nevada and found It so warm that the winter grain had grown to the first joint and the I grass was well under way The grower I grow-er are afraid that all this will be winterkilled within the next thirty I clays and In many places arc asking ounon of stock to turn them Into the grain fields to eat down the too rapid jnowth The ground appears to be dry and what Ijitle HOW there woa In the hills fastljliftprxjarliig People I I Peo-ple generally nr utu rvhonslve about I tin coining 4mumer I There lg ono feature of the late con I I vonUou at Fort Worth that calls forth I for-th Bjjeclal connlder iion of Intermountain l Intermoun-tain ptopkcrowers said John C Muckey of Taylorsvllle who has returned re-turned from Fort Worth And that Is i the action of the convention in resolving re-solving that the Government should lease Its lands to the several States The lutermountuln State delegations J were united against this and it WH only carried by the cooperation of the Texas delegation and the Eastern I packinghouse and stockyard interests Ss It will be seen that the resolution was put through In the very face of I the interests be the most Injured by It The vote was 227 against leasing to 328 for leasing the latter vote including in-cluding the Texas delegation So it will be seen that had Texas minded Its own business we would have defeated de-feated the resolution by fortynine votes Texas has no Government lands having come into the Union as a foreign for-eign country owning all of Its territory terri-tory Consequently It should have kept out of the fight It can be easily seen why the great packing and stockyard stock-yard Interests in the East should desire de-sire the leasing of Government lands as it would enable them to gobble up nil the more desirable grazing lands thus shutting out the small grower 1 Asa As-a sort of sop the convention empowered empow-ered the president of the association to appoint a committee composed of representatives rep-resentatives of the eleven States immediately imme-diately Interested to draft a bill In ac j I cordance with the action of the con I yon lion for presentation to shut s-hut so worded as to occasion the least dee erlous results to the Intermountain States I hope the papers will take up the cudgels In behalf of the small stockgrower and kill any bill that may be Introduced Into Congress lookIng look-Ing toward leasing the public lands to the several States I have noticed marked changes for the better In Salt Lake in the last decade said II Brundenthal of Chicago Chi-cago at the White house yesterday I have children living at Helena and elsewhere In the Intermountain country coun-try HO that my attention is of course drawn thin way quite often I manage man-age to get out this way every once in a while and am always glad to see these Western hills and to get a good whiff of mountain air I look to see Mon ana Id ho and Utah become great forces for the good of the Nation at large I As long as soft coal Is burned In Butte Just so long will It continue to be the Plttsburg of the Weal so far as smoke Is 1 concerned lemurked George A Clark at the Kenyon yesterday yes-terday Were anthracite coal to be used the difficulty would of course disappear dis-appear But the difference In cost is so enormous that the change no matter mat-ter how desirable It might be Is i not to be thought of for a moment Soft coal sellH in Butte for leas than 5 I while 19 and over has been paid for the hard article The general opinion in western Montana is that Senator Clark will be seated notwithstanding the ilght made against him V President Henry Ellllng of the Union I Bunk and Trust company of Virginia City Mont Is I a guest at the Knuts ford He said last night Money IB II plenty In Montana particularly as much Eastern capital is being lent into Montana for Investment the rate I of Interest has decreased and there are good times all over the State Our sheepmen are getting 20 cents for their spring wool and the price Is likely togo to-go higher The weather Is about what you have had here a fine open winter with the little snow we had about gone and the ground dry There are fine and promising quartz mining properties prop-erties being opened up In our district which will bring rich returns later on |