Show TALKS WITH TRAVELERS There arc a number of candidates mentioned for Governor on the lie I publican ticket In Montana remarked I exSenator Mantle at tho Knuislord yesterday Jhere arc exUnited States Senator Sanders of Helena oxSlato Senator Folsom of White Sulphur I Springs BrlgGen II C Kessler of Butte cxGov J 13 Richards of Butte cxRcprcsenlullvo A F Bray of Butte III I is pretty well understood that Gen Kossler can have the nomination If he wants il He was Colonel of the Montana Mon-tana volunteers In tho Philippines and IB a very popular man For the Democratic Demo-cratic aide Coy Smith ought to be an II available candidate from the Daly faction for he has served It faithfully On lit lark side Stale Senator C W I Hoffman of Bozeman appears to be the J most likely I man 1 Sellator Carter will probably sue ceod himself lie has served the Stale I I well and made himself strong with hln I pirly and with the best interest of I the State The other Senatorshlp Is open and there will be a number of candidates for It I believe ihe Repub I I r llcans can elocl I both Senators The i I campaign with the Nation begins right I I after the Fourth but In Montana It lasts but two months beginning In September i j v While Miv Mantle made no reference to himself It Is understood that ho I may be either candidate for Governor 01 Hulled Slates Senator as the repiv senlallve of both wings oC the Republican Republi-can parly and as the best candidate to mil to Ihe heretofore separated elements I ele-ments of the party 0 00 I I The Rock Island has been piling up construction material at Liberal Kan I I for a year or over remarked A C I Croydou of Chicago at the Manitou 1 I r yesterday and ihdiu Is no one who I I will claim that the road has been doIng j do-Ing this for fun or for the health of its I employees It Is I evident the line Is to be extended to While Oaks N M to j 1 connect with the 121 Pnso North I S eastern road at that point This mochas moc-has Jong been talked of and the further I fur-ther time progresses the more evident evi-dent Is It that this move will be made I have talked with prominent Rock Island people and am convinced that the company will build In New Mexico rather than west of Colorado Springs I and Pueblo No connection will bo necessarily made with the Pecos Valley road that Is practically a Santa Fe 1 outfit The Rock Island Is aiming to get down Into a country where It can make money and the financial weathervane I i weather-vane Jias for some time been pointing i to Mexlcnn conneclions I j a 0 The weather Is much more pleasant i down East than it Is In Salt Lake at i present said Robert D Grant at tho Kenyan yesterday after his return from a Connecticut business trip It Is I typical Juno weather east of the Mississippi and the llowers are all IP bloom but all the same I am glad toP to-P be back In Salt Lake It is McKinley I and Roosevelt all over the country hT In Philadelphia everyone was satisfied with the outcome and all the visitors f were well treated I should like well to see anyone go up the Naugatuek valley hi Connecticut and Intimate that McKlnley would nol be reelected j he would not fare very well From what I could learn I believe there Is a big surprise In store In the South the coming campaign There will be a very heavy Republican votu I polled 1 In the Southern manufacturing districts These people are not anxious to return to the conditions of four years ago when the Democratic party was In iiower S 0 Prices higher than the consumers can afford to pay Is the cause of the fall In the Iron market Bald F C Phlllpps of Chicago at the Kenyon yesterday John W Gates and his little Idler of course were factors at first but lie cuts no figure now and the market Is down for purely naturT reasons The purchasing public is waiting for the bottom to be reached and then they will begin buying again So business Is comparatively quiet In iron trade circles In Chicago and will remain so for a few weeks yet 11I1 I W A Alters the mIning engineer I has returned from an extended business I trip through central Idaho He said I yesterday Idaho has been a inuijh i neglected State and the facts about Its great anlneial resources have not JI1 past years been appreciated as they should In Eastern money centers But of late It has become pretty well known that there Is a wonderfully fine mining mi-ning country and Investors are placing plac-ing more faith In It But even now there are parts of the central section of the Stale where people are few and far between I traveled six days on horseback covering SCO miles east of Seven Devils and did not meet over half a dozen prospectors cabins The railroads are doing a good deal toward opening up tho State by making ma-king hitherto Inaccessible parts accessible ac-cessible though where a good mining property has Its own milling and I smelting facilities the fact that a railroad rail-road may or may not be In the neighborhood does not cut much of a figure 0 0 II Chief Engineer Fewson Smith of the Sierra Madre Pacific road In Mexico and at present In this city speaks I most hopefully of the mining prospects I of the country 175 miles to the southwest south-west of Coralltoa the terminus of tho road running southwest from El Paso and which was built under Mr Smiths direction He says lhal Phelps Dodge I Co of New York have copper l claims there where S3000000 worth of ore has been blocked out and a mine plant costing 53000000 Is being sot up there At present the mines arc a long way from a vallioad but It Is hoped > that the Sierra Madro road will be extended to lhat point at an early day and if the present owners of the I road do not feel like extending there is strong probability that the Rock Iblaml road will take the road and extend I ex-tend it |