Show TALKS WITH TRAVELERS I notice that Eastern parties who notce EaHtcn may be out In this country on mining and other deals feel chary about getting get-ting their names Into Lbo paper remarked at marked A B Lawrence of Chicago the Ctillen yesterday I was here some errand and lime an tnw ago on some such it got Into the Iomo papers Well my room was by brokers men Wi besieged for days dWnl who dUln with properties to sell men have any properties but who knew where there were some that would pay Investment or a Immensely with the stment who llttl capital men with friends Ilh veriest dispose of the were ready to were rtud dlgpos consideration bonanzas for a minimum n sorts of schemes and people with all no schemes at all but veritable visions 01 engineer who wanted to go out and who me assayers survey claims for tslyers sur and a work required could do all the good deal that was not required and I else and dont know who else what shlch else and a dozen more counties to hoar from It did no good to explain that my errand was not of such a magnitude as would warrant all this turmoil and confusion I was at once sized up as an Eastern millionaire and all there was the mar left for me to do was to play tyr and stand the racket Illinois has had the most prosperous prosper-ous Iinois ytar In its history notwithstanding that its corn crop did not turn out over is hottest the average Owing to the weather In local meteorology last August Vather gust the corn failed to do well and has not yielded over fortyfive bushes has to the acre But the oat crop proved something phenomenal yielding r from sixty to eighty bushels to the acre The biggest thing that ha hap I nnnfrl fn Illinois this winter Is the open Ing of the new drainage canal from the I Chicago river Into the Desplalnes and 1 the the Illinois rivers and thence to I Mississippi There are some dams yetI yet-I I to take out In the rivers mentioned and I little dredging In the 1111 I then with a dredging Il 1tl 1 nois river there will be clear sailing for I navigation between Mississippi river I points and great lako points And then Chicago can have clean water to drink from itS pipes Of course SL Louis Ig does not like It But I notice that when Chicago wants anything she generally gets It whether St Louis likes It or not There are a good many Illinois I people not traveling through the far West travelng this winter to spend part if not all of the season In California and all take kindly to Utah and Salt Lako City o An old timer at Butte told me Just before I left that 1899 was tho most prosperous leC year that part of the State had ever seen said Bert Richardson at the Walker house yesterday I has been a wonderful year for all that part of the country and even the silver mines have done well The only suggestion sug-gestion of unpleasantness Is at Anaconda Ana-conda where th < vt has been a systematic system-atic effort to cut wages and as the I men wont stand It many are leaving and looking for work elsewhere I Is I a hard thing to cut wages In Montana as the working classes are used to good a pay and any attempt at reduction particularly par-ticularly In these times of prosperity Is likely to occasion some dlsturoancc I received 4 l per day right along at the concentrators at the Granite mine But the altitude was too much for me and I alttdo what attractions am on route to Arizona to see tractions Blbbee possesses The winter so far In Montana has been In Salt been as mild aa It has I Lake City I tlrovo across the country coun-try < on wheels before leaving and had I no trouble with snow Cattle and stock generally are still out on the ranges feeding and unless the weather turns out a good deal colder than Its It-s there will be little corral feeding in the State ere spring opens 01 We ore going to have the greatest coal mine in the State said Agent R Forrester of Sunnysldc last night at the Walker The linest kind of coking coal IB being mined there at the present rate of between 10 and 500 tons per day I with a force of 175 men There wm be I no necessity to eer resort to the Hemingway I Hem-ingway process of coking and there Is sure to be u big demand for our goods I There will be coking ovens built at I Sun yside but Just how many Is not I yet decided Of course our miners arc I I more or less transitory a In other ml camps but we take such pains to make I the miners feel at home that our men are Inclined to stay with us The miners houses are of five rooms each lighted with electricity and while building operations are at present not being pushed they will be resumed in the spring The local payroll Is already 5000 to 10000 per month I Is not decided whether the railroad will be extended to the ozokerite fields pending pend-ing analyses of the mineral which will demonstrate what may be done with it 0 I Cheyenne Is not exactly in the midst of a boom but there is a steady and encouraging growth said Judge Rlner I at tho Knutsford lat evening Houses I arc so scarce that building operations ire being actively carried on even at I this time of year and renls are high The railroad shops are being pushed to I do the work a the company has been I short of hands and the rebuilding of parts of the Union Pacific road west of Cheyenne Is throwing a good deal ot now business Into the town Our sheep and stockmen generally have done very well the past year so they have moro money to spend than ever and all things considered Cheyenne Is tasting I extensively of the fruits of prosperity It A J Smith of Chicago son of the I noted Union corps commander Gen A T Baldy Smith Is at the Kenyon He was entertained yesterday by Department De-partment Commander Kalghn of the G A R and other veteran friends before be-fore continuing to the coast He remarked re-marked last evening I have b < jerx r 4 through this Intermountaln country quite a number of times and have always al-ways a worm spot In my heart for Utah and Salt Lake I like to visit here the surroundings are so attractive > and my friends and acquaintances orr so cordial and courteous I shall be In i 5 California a few weeks and expect to I stop over again on my return east r 1 District Judge Charles H Hart of Logon Lo-gon Is u guest at the Ciillcn He re w marked lost night I am here overnight f over-night en route to Richfield to sit for Judge McCarty in a case In which ho Is disqualified Logan and Cache val i ky l are fairly prosperous although In f t parts of tho valley the crops were short or failures I hear little said about time Roberts question and any excitement there might have been seems to hao i died out Not n year passes but acesfmoro 1 and more general lines and apeclaltlpn In the millinery trade which heretofore hereto-fore have been made only In Europe now manufactured In tho United States said Louis Whltmeyer of Chicago Chi-cago at the Knutsford last night I Europe cgo Eu-rope ha until recently had a monopoly f of line velvet manufacturing owing loa lo-a peculiar knack In dyeing But manufacturerS i manu-facturers a In this country have of lato brought over fine artisans from time Lyons mills and the flnest velvets are now being made here In the millinery trade thr ofourthF of the material Is l now made In America and It wont bo long before all will be made here |