| Show TALKS WITH TRAVELERS I T came over from Government crook the other night said Walter Jtimcfi of Vernon at the White house Yesterday and found that the water had done considerable damage Hooding I all of the low lands and leaving several sev-eral Inches of mud over the lucerne and mcailoV tlelds which will cause considerable con-siderable killing out A number of I 5 ditches were washed out in loose J I I ground No estimate of the damage I can be ascertained at present as the l I ground Is I too muddy to Investigate I Tho started about the 15th of the j months there were light rains on the J I 16th and 18th and the snow is now j r about gone There are heavy streams running down the canyons and our good prospects for summer Irrigating water have ajsout vanished S i 5 5 Lester Taylor of Moab Is at the Cullen Our valley said ho yester day Is nOw well supplied with water for some time and the range feed for next Winter la assured by this months ram and snowfall There ought not to up any complaints of drought for the next two reasons We are not troubled any more with the gentlemen from the Henry mountains Most of the cattle have been sold off and the rustlers cannot handle sheep so they let these severely alone Havent seen Butch Cassidy for a long time Guess he Is preparing for a raid Once In a while some of these tough gentlemen come In town to get drunk and then the meanness mean-ness In them crops out They dont hesitate any more at shooting a man than a dugj I saw farmers ploughing today be tween Ogden and Suit Lake said J Hartman of Cheyenne yesterday at the Kenyon land the ground appeared to be In good condition for working Besides 1 saw green grass about two inches high in several places In Wyoming Wyo-ming the snow Is nearly gone The opinion seems to be that an early spring is coming with bathing In March and all that sort of thingS thing-S 0 The national irrigation movement sincu the close of the Chicago conven tlon has gained great strength said C E Wantland yesterday The recent re-cent agitation ain Congress owing to many bills presented by Western mem bern has called attention to the situation situa-tion from all over the country and the educational Influence of this cannot be overestimated This ought to result in desired legislation at the next Congress There will be unusual interest In the next session of the National Irrigation congress at Colorado Springs In July in consequence of the recent agitation S S S The reason more manufacturing is not done on the Pacific coast Is because of the Jack of coal said R W Liu forth of San Francisco at the Kenyon yesterday But with the recent de velopments In California oil there Is a chance of the oil Industry being so developed de-veloped that oil may be used all over the State for fuel and manufacturing so cheapened that many articles now manufactured in the East and consumed con-sumed on the coast can be made in California A number of companies have been organized to bring electric power from the mountain streams down Into the lowland cities for motor purposes pur-poses S S The great manufactories of metal goods In Connecticuts Naugatuclc val icy have so increased In number In the Inst ten years and the output has so enormously increased that most oC them are now running only five days In the week and with reduced help at that said G B Van Valkenburg of Waterbury Conn nt the Knutsford yesterday One big plant at Water bury expended 100000 last year In adding to Its manufacturing facilities and besides added 700000 to Its surplus sur-plus |
