Show TALKS WITH TRAVELERS O II Smith of Tuscarora Nov Is n guest at the Cullen having come to this city after mining machinery Held He-ld jcsterday Tho prepress of de I i velopment Is encouraging In our part J of the State I am interested in a I group of claims called the Ina group thirty miles north of Tuscarora which are yielding ore assaying 15 to 517 gold Ii and an ounce of silver for each ounce of gold However we do not go much on thc silver Herclofore we have been C hauling our ore to Tuscarora for treatment treat-ment and then hauling the bullion f fortyfive miles further to the railroad But the local outlook Is so encouraging encour-aging that we propose putting up a tenstamp mill of our own costing about SI 1001 Thc cyanide process will be used in connection with It In cleanIng clean-Ing up the tailings the plates catchlivf twothirds of the gold and the cyanide the remainder The Montana Mining company on the oilier side of Bull Run mountain is doing well In fact k the larger share of prospects In that district Is looking up nnd much valuable valu-able ore is i being taken out of the ground The winter has been so mild that the stockmen have fed out only half their hay > leaving the balance to go over They may need It as the scarcity I of snow means shortage In water the coming summer Sheep ale now being driven Into our country from the des I erts and valleys where they wUered well and the farmers arc opening up their spring work I have just returned from a business trip through Sanpete and Sevler and adjoining counties and if there was any country which needed rain or snow I it was thai section of the State said J F Schurch at the Kenyon yesterday I was as dry as parchment but this recent storm has put a different pha eon e-on the face of things and the farmers and sheepmen down there are singing the biggest kind of an Easter anthem without any particular care whether their Easter hats et wet thel get or not I huve been selling tobacco botlj in this State and New Mexico and have noticed that while in IHnh chewing appears ap-pears to be almost universal especially In the rural districts there Is I lillle smoking tobacco sold In comparison 1 I seems as though the first thing a Utah man wants on rising from the table is 1 to take a chew of tobacco Smoking Is second thought I Now in New Mexico the reverse obtains ob-tains There is comparatively little chewing tobacco sold In that Territory I The iHipnlation Is largely Mexican and they prefer smoking to chewing ChewIng Chew-Ing ls one American habit they dont seem to take to at all Mexican are great cigarette smokers and women as well as men will roll and smoke cigar cites by the hour This I suppose la an Illustration of how peoples of even adjacent communities will differ in tastes and customs > t Superintendent H Sommers of the Montana division of the Rock Mountain Moun-tain Bell Telephonexcompaiiy IB at the Kenyon Business i all over western Montana Is very satisfactory he remarked re-marked yrsloiduy And our sheep men particularly arc In high feather The good limes I are dangerously liable I to I Increase the Republican I vulo and the fall campaign Is likely to become decidedly interesting in consequence The Slalohouse Is now completed to thin third sldry and will make a linelooking structure Senator Clark bulldcd bel tel than he knew w h1 he made his light for the location of the State cnpl tol at Helena Instead of i at Anaconda or l3ti Ito The two I lalter places would not do at all for the Slate capital but HeiQHa proval meets with tie general 3f The Coeur dAlene country Is tribu IsllIJ tary to western Montana and business is I very good over there at present Hut the continuance of peace depends on the continuance of martial law Many I of the tough gentlemen who have dyna mite emolazoned on their coatofarms have left Shoshone county but there are a number there yet who arc ut work under assumed names As It It all the soldiers do Is to perform police lolce duty leaving civil processes in force as though there were no martini law e t The proposed 3000000 international I ram above El Paso Tex If built can hardly last over a century at the far best said Chief Engineer Smith of the Sierra Madre road yesterday The Klo Grande aL that point IB always heavily charged with sill and In freshet limes particularly so This silt is fine lll lydivided 1 alluvial I I soil I held by I Ine water In suspension as It moves and Is deposited whenever the ualor Is i wholly 01 partially I at a siniuhnlll During the great Hood at El l Paso In May 1S07 the Hooded fiats were raised two and a half to three I feet by I this deposit and thai In only two UI three weeks lime tha Now while li would tme grand Lining for the Rio Grande valley to have this International dam bulll t and by it i barren lands for 100 miles east on both sides of the river could be redeemed 1ldclld still the reservoir would slowly fill up and by the time another generation came on the scene means would have to be found to clean out the bed of th lake for twentyor thirty miles I or build r > > f < i f Y a 1 new dam and reservoir on lop of the I present one The Klrphant RullI dam above rtlneon I and 11T > miles north of 101 Paso Is I an Improvement I In I I ha tils i hove Hie t Klo I Perm whose Hoods throw enormous enor-mous quantities I of ibis alluvial I I soil 1 Inlo I tIme Iil Grande every year 1 The Elephant Iulle people arc emerging from their i protruded Ii tigt ion Wllh the I Inlernailonal dam projeulors wilh the I advantage rather on thHr side and I operations there may begin before long The trouble has been lhat the Id I Paso I people claimed there was not enough I water In the river for both dams and that the Elephant Butte dam would obstruct ob-struct navigation The courts do not appear to lake that view I o S S I Editor Graham of the Bingham Bulletin I Bul-letin Is a guest at the Walker house He is i meditating a descent from tho mountainous regions of the rest of the continent and relocating his habitat at sea level where the atmosphere Is less attenuated and where llie bcaling of the sad sea waves on the frothgirt shore Is 1 vailed by the cry of Mother treys chickens foretelling storms and the wall of the pelican as she drops a j sea bass from her Saratoga trunklike mow In trying to swallow It wrong end I lo Brer Graham says he has lived In the mountains ever since the morning stars sang together and the megatheri um and the dinasauer breakfasted off Pterodactyl on toast and he thinks i ho would like I change or words to LImit effect Br or Graham comes out strongly In favor of having Binghnm incorporated i He says there Is no sense in a community i com-munity of 2000 Inhabitants remaining as Bingham is today A suckling babe j on the county breast There Is I great Ideal I-deal to be done for the physical I benefit o the place A macadamized road Is necessary the length of the sell lenient ll needs cleaning from way up the canyon can-yon down Ihrough thc town and there I are many things which should be done which are left undone o Three weeks ago I was told in New Tork that up to date IScOO people had I engaged passage for Cape Nome on the first sicameis of the season remarked I W 1 Deveroaux of New York at the Knutsford last evening This gives sonic Idea l of the crowds walling for a I chance to rush for the gold Hells |