Show TALKS WITH TRAVELERS There are quite a number of Salt I Lakers in San Francisco these days said Dr II N Mayo yesterday a lie Cullen The doctor Is in the city from a coast trip and Is preparing to go to Seattle on a trip that may extend to somewhere In the vicinity of Cape I Nome later on As you go down Market L Mar-ket l street the chances arc that you J will run Into Gus Holmes Col Shaugh 1 nessy J C Conklln or some other citizen i I citi-zen of Zion They are all enjoying I I themselves i San Francisco grows more like I Seattle in activity every month The acquisition of the western Islands t haM I opened Lon up a growing trade between I San Francisco and 1 the new possessions Iso I-so that the number of vessels running In and out of the Golden Gate is increasing in-creasing and there are more Eastern people in San Francisco seeking business busi-ness chances than ever before The city is full of people thousands of them new faces and the hotels arc crowded Almost every man on the coast I believe Is an ardent expansionist and wants the Islands retained In the possession pos-session of the United States This expansion ex-pansion business Is proving a wonderful wonder-ful thing for San Francisco Portland Lhlnt 101 yeatlle and San Diego and Is drating thousands of energetic people from the Eastern and Middle States to the coast cltlet Of course the neighboring States like Idaho and Utah cannot help profiting some by the move and prollng I on lie whole I cannot Imagine anything any-thing which could have so helped build the far Western States as the up cster acquisition ac-quisition of the Sandwich and Philippine Philip-pine Islands Houses are scarce and rentals high In San Francisco and n building era has set In which bids fair to greatly Increase the borders of the city in a comparatively short time 00 9 I is true that there are great I swaths being cut In the Minnesota and Wisconsin white pine limber tracts said Ed I P Staode of Mankato Minn nl the Ken yon yesterday I have not figured how much longer the Northern forests will stand the reduction reduc-tion but In about five years the country I coun-try will have been cleared However while thcro will be n loss In one way thorp will be a gain In another In the acquisition of new farming lands because be-cause the tracts from which the limber lim-ber has been cut can be transformed Into the finest kind of agricultural lands Experience has proven this As I to the effects upon the climate by l this Umber slashing it appears that the TDcal weather has averaged warmer since It was done Labor has been mighty scarce In tho Northern Middle States and inconsequence In-consequence wages have been on the soar In many Instances where contracts con-tracts were based on certain supposed lyknown quantities in the matter of wages for labor employers have been forced lo raise wages somelimcs to the doubling point or else see their help leave and their contracts fall by the I wayside The Northwestern road has brought as many as nine carloads of laborers to Mankato in one day and at once they would be picked right up I and given work The Northwestern road has five hundred men cutting railroad road stone alone in the quarries near the town S I V While I cannot at this moment give you absolute iigurcb I can say that the total number of pianos manufactured annually In the United Stales now Is yOOOO In round numbers said H B Fischer the wellknown piano manu facturer of New York at the Knuts acurer ford yesterday Our concern turns out 5000 of this number You will easily sec from these figures fig-ures that Americans arc becoming decidedly de-cidedly musical and a piano in every house Is not so rash a prediction a to the musical future of the American people Yes there are n large number of Instruments on the market known a stencil plate made by manufacturers who oren let the stencil plato above thcl keyboard speak for itself instead of giving the name of the manufacturer I Some of them turn out very well and sometimes they do not you run your chances In getting a good Instrument I in such cases The strike of piano factory hands In 1 Chicago only affected the local market I mar-ket The people at large seem to have more money than in years previous and they are appaiently adding to the motto What Is home without a mother I moth-er What Is home without a piano s a a a I am In Utah lo look after my mining I min-ing Int rests here remarked E Pom mer of Milwaukee at the White house yesterday There are < good many Wisconsin people looking lo this State for1 investment as the reputation of Utah for line mining propel lies Is steadily Increasing in the East There Is a good deal of money in the country In consequence of the advent of prosperous pros-perous times and the question with many holders of uninvested funds is I What shall we do with our money to make It earn us something I Utahs reputation continues to hold its own I there ought to be a great deal of Eastern East-ern money sent Into this State for investment In-vestment in mines t V U Senator Clarks mill at Ophlr Is I practically completed but to be liberal in the matter of giving time I put the time In which the mill will be in actual ac-tual orklng order at six months from now said J F Connor of Stockton at the Kenyon yesterday That mill will bo I very complete affair one of the best In tlC country and in fact it ought to be considering tho wealth of the man who is backing U A new arrangement ar-rangement has been added to the mill whereby the tailings are no longer dumped into the creek or on the banks but are carried some distance beyond and dumped S U S Senator li R Tanner of Beaver county coun-ty Is a guest aL the Wllltc house He remarked yesterday The summer frosts cut our hay and wheat crops short and the last luccrn crop suffered suf-fered and unless there Is more snow In the hills before spring seta In the range feed will be mighty scarce the coming summer The ground down ihere now Is very wet and the traveling Is of the muddiest The stock arc still The new rail fowling on the ranges rai road to the Nevada line Is doing n good business hauling ore given It by the I many mining properties In the adjoining adjoin-ing parts of Utah and Nevada and with the Htock traffic furnished there is much to do A large and Important I territory has been opened up |