| Show TALKS WITH TRAVELERS I County Commissioner Thomas of Juab county came up from the south yesterday yes-terday and is al the While house I 1 have Just come In from Fish Springs S he remarked and the rainfall on the great desert has been something remarkable re-markable For nine days straight the rain fell something which StemS almost al-most without precedent and the barren bar-ren wastes are covered with water The I entire desert Is thoroughly soaked and I good Is assured feed for next winter for the sheep p The mining Interests at the Springs are looking up The C there Is copper cop-per and gold and the more It Is uncovered un-covered the more Aaluable are the bodies bod-ies brought to view But if there hone h-one thing that we need and need badly more than another il Is a railroad lo haul our increasing ore output to Ihe smelters We have a long wagon haul I and It costs a good deal of money to haul to Deserel ninety miles There is a good deal of snow on thc mountains all through the central and 1 southern part of the State and souther It wi I take a pretty prolonged drought to do much damage this summer SUmh1Cr a x An Immense amount of snow has fallen lately In the mountains of the northeastern part of the State ic marked Judge T J McConnell of Vernal Ver-nal yesterday at the Knulsford In fact time extent of the fall Is a matter I mater I of general surprise and II may be added of general gratification The road to I Prjcc Is a quagmire and the stage was twentyfour hours late the day before I came < own There Is no doubt now as to thc abundance of the crops this season In Uintah county and there will be alllho water that the farmers wl The cold weather however accompanying accom-panying the storms has caused something some-thing o a commotion among the sheep men at Colton where over 200000 sheep have been herded for shearing and the sheen cannotbeshelred tkwkrm I weathercomes again In flic meantime the lambing season Is also coming on and the sItuation becoming problematical proble-matical The sheep will be lale this spring In getting onto the 0 summer ranges Of course Uintahj I county like other parts of the State Is much shocked by thc terrible occurrence at ScoHeld and you may depend upon il that our sec ton qf the State will not be behind In the way of raising contributions and with the certainty of good goo crop prospects pros-pects ahead there will be a tendency to give more liberally < Col J R Mcintosh general counsel for the Postal Telegraph company and C l1 Balcer general superintendent of conslrucllon arrived yesterday from the north and arc at the Knutsford Both oflicials are greatly pleased with the business outlook and the Colonel remarked In an encouraging vein The latest developments Indicate most unmistakably un-mistakably that It will be but a short I time before the Postal wires are in Salt Lake In fact have Sal JalC we reasonable expectation I ex-pectation I of being In this city by fall I shall we not Mr Baker Mr Baker I assented You see added Mr Baker we have now two trnnsconllnental lines I one via time Northern Pacific and Jnes via the Southern Pacific through tl Sout1In PaclJc throlh thc Southern States The third line will be via the Union Pacific and as soon us no can bojrln operations work is to begin be-gin wesiward from Denver and east ward from Ogden with a gang working < half way on the main line We have I I just como from Boise where we havt been making a fight to secure right of way along the Short Line riGht of way I as It is our Intention to run a line north from this city to Butte connecting with iul wih the Postal line along the Northern Pa cific right of Later clfe way I we shall build shal buid along the Central Pacific line and we do not anticipate any difliculty with the railroad company JU I Out troubles are with the Western Union which Is exerting every effort to stop us uiul put all manner of obstacles In our path which of course is very I natural But the game will not work ihe Postal is I Postl coming Into Sail Lake and Is going ihence lO Butte and San Francisco and legal dlfllcullies will I shortly be brushed aside dltculUes wi I |
