Show TALKS WITH TRAVELERS The Burlington surveyors arc In Evanston said It S Spencc of that city nt the Cullen yesterday There must be eighteen men in the party and they arc evidently bound to Salt Lake via Chalk cicek und Emigration canyon can-yon the line reaching Evanston and Chalk creek via Yellow creek The preliminary survey stakes have not I only been driven but time stakes of the I final survey marking out the right of way This certainly looks like business busi-ness Shearing with us will hardly begin before May Jstj but as io prices well Wo tic Lighting for 20 centn but whether wheth-er wo will get that price is problematical proble-matical Cattle and sheep are In good shape and ot the recent rains and snows have given the range and ranches ranch-es a good drenching the outlook Is all that can be desired Evanston is full of peoplo but not so much building Is going on as there is a largo floating population mostly of railroad laborers They arc coming and going all the I time and time saloons are shoveling In money 0 5 o President J D Wood of the Idaho I WoolGrowers association who Is stop I ping at the Cullen with his family has Just returned from a California trip I Nevada has received a good wetting j he said but California is not jo fortunate II I for-tunate and the dryness continues I there very much In evidence One man loin mo iney unnK or caning ion a general gen-eral prayer meeting all over time State to pray for rain Otherwise the State Is lira prosperous conditionS condition-S S Thomas Bates and party arc up on the line of the proposed Midland railway rail-way looking over the situation aid VicePresident II B Eastman of the Boise National bank at the Knutsford yesterday There is l an Immense amount of tonnage awaiting that road when it is built as much as any line In tho country for the entire route from Butte to Boise traverses territory rich In timber mines and agricultural opportunities It will bo a big thing for Boise when the tvond Is ilven the graders to start In Butte people especially espe-cially are pleased over the prospect Of course the road will not stop at Bolse no one believes that but that It will continue on as a transcontinental lineWe We are waiting patiently until April 13th when Mr Harriman has promised to give his answer relative to trans ferring the main track of the Short Une to Boise from its present ben tion The city is looking toward that at present more than in any other tli roctlon Boi e is growing as usual The new hotel is neurl above ground and in three weeks the Neti York canal will be In shape to irrigate 50000 acres of land V S 0 Good times keep up In the Baker City country said J T Grajson a prominent New Yorker yesterday at the Knutsford There Is a district fifteen miles wide by ICO long which ia rich In mineral and Is fast lining up with prospectors Inward bound trains arc loaded dally time standard gauga running lo Baker City and the narrow gauge thence to Sumpter hence stages run In all directions Discover ics arc of frequent occurrence and gold IH HO plentiful that prospectors aro discarding tin other metals In their search for the yellow metal Then the livestockgrowers I I and the farmers arc rejoicing In plenty of moisture so that all around the prospects are Ifritiut enough 0 S S The Bock Island and Lake Shore roads will have a union depot in Chicago of which any city or road might be proud said General Agent W H Firth of time Rock Island at Denver last night at the Knutsford It will cost about three millions and bo a structure Ion stories high like the Grand Central In New York city but with through trains entering on the elevated level and suburban trains on the ground level As the elevated city line adjoins the depot paasenger will bo able to enter and leave the city L from the through train plat form Then a union depot for time Rock Island fake Shore Pennsyl vania roads has been built at Engle Avood which Is a model of convenionce |