Show TALKS WITH TRAVELERS Tile sentiment In and around Rock Springs as to the Government 8 leasing p Its i publk domain Is divided sonic preferring pre-ferring il and some not said F A Ross at the Kenyon yesterday Bui the Idea seems lo be that the lundq are most likely to bo disposed of In someway some-way and therp will be a general rush I for the lands when lie time comes fort for-t leasing The coal mines at Rock Springs arc employing 1500 miners lIt present and turning out from UUO lo loo cars of coal I per day HIP maximum sometimes I reaching COO caiv So business is lively I and there 1 are no more labor troubles 1 The size of the Town depends upon the extent lo which HIP mines are worked tile heavier the OUtpUt the larger the number of miners employed and cyn > sociuently the greater amount of business busi-ness done In town Tin inier I has bipn open and balmy Just ns you have had It here There Is no frost in the ground and the roails art bard and dry The water problem IK i lllcHy lo bu a serious one us In nthor parts of the country Agri putur does not em much of a figure In our sectIon coal ond oalllo being what I tIle geographies would call the slaple products I S Am just In from Vernal where T have Jusl completed a new creamery said W M Springer of Galesbun III at the Walker I yesterday The new Plant will 1 handle 20000 quarts of milk dally turning thp I same Into butler for the present though the management may decide to make cheese later on This I InduKtry means a good deal for the people i of Ashlpy valley as il affords af-fords a steady market for ihelr I milk and this In turn t calls for more hay Then the butter In excess of what Is used at home Jlnds ready sale In any part of tin country thus bringing more money Into the place of manufacture Tile mining oxuhnngp at Colorado Springs has compklely eclipsed tilt one in Denver rumarhcd Proprietor II TT Stevens of the Attn Vista hotel al the Springs yesterday al tIle Kenyon In fact the Springs exchange does the business for Denver and run mining men have their Denver ofllces whore considerable business Is transacted every day And our mining Interests are Increasing Why the gold on I put for January uTCripple Crock ulono was SVIOOOOO and the February output was only a lllllo I I under that because for ono reason It was the shorter month At Ibis rate the years output from that camp ought to be well on toward UO 000000 and the I camp is still in Us I In Ifaney Tlio HalloU Hamburg mine promisee not long ago to hecome a great producer but at present II does liol seem lo be doing much Thorp has been a gioat shortage In ears or hue so thai the full product of the Teller county camps could not be hauled 10 Ihe smeller Hut there Is another steam road building from the Springs lo Cripple Creek which will relieve tie congestion and materially aid In enlarging the general output This road Is nol in tile combination The Springs has fully recovered from the great lire and > tile Antlers hotel Is rebuilding slowly however as there seems every once In awhile lo be a hllch in tile arrangeinenlsv The town will be full of visitors this summer but there are ample accommodations for the local boardinghouses uro nolcd for ihelr ublllly to take good care of people O 4 I am pieparlng to leave on Monday ncxl lor the Norlhwesl said F IS Simons al the Knutsford yesterday and as soon as tile ice breaks up In the Yukon river will begin carrying passengers pas-sengers down to Cape Nome There will be about 100000 people In that district Ibis season and the carrying of supplies sup-plies for so great a multitude will forman form-an Important Hem In the freight business busi-ness between Sealllc and Alaska points T received word from lawson HIP oilier day slallng lhat the mining outlook Ihpro continued good nolwlthslandlng tile exodus lo tile beach apd Dawson would continue to hold Its own I notice considerable antipathy among the miners toward the ocean dredges being fitted out at San Francisco Fran-cisco to work the sea bottom a ways out from the shore I do not understand under-stand why this feeling should exist as the beach minors cannot expect to work out further than they can conveniently con-veniently wade T hear the Siberian shore is yielding goldbearing sands just as the beaches on the Amelcan shore and I cannot see why this should not bo so Tlo formation of the country coun-try Is just the same and Russia and the United States are separated by only a narrow strip of water I expect to take quite a party with me from tIle Stales a number going from tills clly Mr Simons Is owner of the steamer Reindeer i a J G Phelps Stokes of New York and A C Luck manager of the Tone gold mining properties of Mr Stokes arrived ar-rived yesterday from Nevada and registered reg-istered at HIP Knulsford Mr Slokcss brother Is the now sociolnry of Yale university succeeding Pi of Dexter and is the youngest secretary Yale over had J G Phelps Stokes Is a Colum biaman and his iimnagci Mr Luck la n graduate of Johns Hopkins unl erslly Mr Luck said yeslerdny We are not ready Just at present lo go inio detail further than to state that our milling capacity Is being trebled and may be further Increased laler on But just at present we are only developing and have nothing to complain of in the way of HIP outlook There Is no snow in our country and there will bo a scarcity of water In consequence But fortunately we arc so situated that the drought will nol anVrl us lo any real extent Our ores are both free milling and concentrating b o California Is now looking her loveliest loveli-est said Janies Campbell at HIP Cullen last night As 3 soon us you gcf 01110 the foothillsfrom Ihe Himwhlieds the panorama opens and the entire country is one mass of lowers and verdure Eastern people going home arc leaving the roaM In lie Wrong lime The Southern PnrinV Is to have its allcoast line completed tills coming summer when the htsl gap thai has been open so long will have been closed up This will give 100 miles of road absolutely along tin seashore a special scenic lint for tourist travel to bo known as the Surf Route With the ocean in sight for most of liiis distance and the ocean brcexos blowing Inlo the car windows the line out lo become popular with travelers Mr i Campbell who Is well acquainted with California docs not think tile present drought will affect the southern part of tile State as seriously as some have feared and there have been copious copi-ous rains in the northern and central parts of the State o I doubt very much the truth of the reports today from Lcadvllle about tile marvelous timid sad Charles Keller of Cripple Creek at the Cullen last night and think It must be largely an exaggeration ex-aggeration as to the value of the find There are hopes oC a smelter at Cripple Creek to relieve the smeller congestion The unprecedented rush of ore to the smelters has severely taxed their enpaclly and enabled the soldIer mcn to bicoiiie veryIndependent They will not touch oro now thai runs under 510 in tile ion and Ihc t result Is that I I producers must either concentrate or 1 else leave the ore In tile ground where this requirement can not be compiled with |