Show TALKS WITH TRAVELERS We have not had any of thIs snow in Rich county said Wesley J < VII ton at the Cullen yesterday But It has been cold enough to make up the deficiency and Rich county can furnish enough Ice to fupply the t entire State I has been so long since our section of the State has been favqrcd > with a good snowstorm that we have lovC about forgotten that thero ever was such a thing as sleighriding However we may find some relief 1 In knowing that we have telephonic connection with Salt Lake and I can now go to the nearest telephone here and call up my ranch I IB a great convenience at times to be able to talk with so many dIfferent points and then again It Is not always so convenient con-venient as when your neighbors find out you are going to town and ring you up with innumerable Tequests to carry equally Innumerable messages for everybody from Dan to Beer sheba 0 The price of feed has mounted up so In the Missouri river States that feeding stock Is by no means so profitable as it wan said A 3j I Fotheringham of Beaver at I I the Cullon yesterday I have just returned from a trip to the river and noticed that there is not the amount of feeding done that one would expect under ordinary circumstances The high price of hay and feed In Nebraska Is due largely to n big raft of horses having been shipped In there last fall which ate off the pasturage that the I cattle would otherwise have had to eat Then there have been large shipments ship-ments of stock for feeding at the same I time There will be a large number of stockmen In Salt Lake from Nebraska 1 I I I and Kansas In 0 few days This weeks snowstorm has no i I doubt redeemed Beaver county from an embarrassing dryness the coming I summer Sleighing we dont know much about although last November we did have about three hours of it I i Col John Sparks of Reno was at I the Kenyan yesterday en route to Austin Tex where he Is called on business Im sorry he said that I I can not remain over and attend the I convention but circumstances are such that I cant The Western cattle I market is In good condition and stock are selling at LJA cents on the hoof f The San Francisco packing establishments establish-ments continue to do a good business I We have Just had a big storm In Nevada The wind blew a heavy gale for thirty hours doing much damage I and there was three Inches of snow followed bya prolonged rain The ground was thoroughly soaked but l I I t i the only snow we have Is away up in the hills 1 I Col Sparks had Intended to give an I exhibition of selected live stock next week from his ranch but unforeseen contingencies wi A prevent Engineer T P RIgney has just returned re-turned from a trip to Gunnison and Highland reservoirs The greater part of the force at Gunnison has laid off for the Inst two wee s on account ac-count of the holidays but the men are now back In full force and the contractors have half the work done on the tunnel and Avlll finish it this month The entire work Is expected to be completed In ninety or one hundred days so a to store the necessary neces-sary water for the t coming years crop The present sixty I teams ulll be iu creased to 100 teams The acres to be Irrigated will be 20000 The Highland reservoir Is six miles to the south whore there will he fifty seventy five teams at work in a shorttime IIr Rigncy approves of the proposed plan to build a food canal from the Snake river to conneet < wltln the Bear and thus dlvort enough water Into the Bear lake to raise the level of Great Salt < G The smallpox scare is dying ut In I western Montana said II ID Herman of Butte yesterday at the K nyon Then the disease has been so light that some people have preferred to take It and thus become immune for the remainder of their lIven without tho necessity of periodic vaccination The people coining out of the pest house are all in fine health and con dition They cat heartily and tho eruptive appearances on the body are no more than small pimples So many have either befn vaccinated or hod the disease that the smallpox has but little material now to feed on General business In Butte has im proved and people are sure of good times commercially 4 d There must be 500000 sheep on the Nevada desert said Samuel l Gillette of Elko county at the White house yosteiday The winter feed is fine but thore Is no snow except on the hills and that is so hard that it has to be chopped out for the sheep to get at It I now there was only i snow on the desert no better condition for wintering sheep could be condlon lskec However we are getting along well considering the circumstances Mr Gillette says there Is a large I amount of bridge timbering and ma ohlnery pled up at Lucln waiting to be used on the new cutoff to Ogden But nothing is being done OSd the material 1 There had been no snow worth mentioning In the country around Ducliesnc when I left said John Mc Andrews at the Walker yesterday The road to Price is In good condi tion and things are quiet on tho reservation reser-vation The Indians are not troublesome trouble-some and the excitement over the school children has becomcn back number The two troops of cavalry I at the post have the war strength of I 100 men each and arc kept busy t enough cutting ice and doing odd Jobs I nround tile reservation prevent time hanging l heavy on their hands There 1 Is i f good readingroom and library facilities at the t post for the soldiers and they have nothing to complain of Maj Myton the agent will be in Salt Lake in u few days j |