Show TALKS WITH TRAVELERS J The crop most promising In western i Beaver county at present is the ice crop said P B McKeon of Milford yesterday at the Cullen I Is three years since we had such cold weather in that part of the State and we arc having enough Ice to last us for a longtime long-time But there has been little snow or rain this winter with us B B S The Aspen work will take the whole rear 1 but the Sherman hill only about thirty clays said Contractor S D Kllpatrick at the Ken on yesterday When all this Is done the Union Pa I clllc will have one of the finest roads in the country No Im not interested in the proposed road to Los Angeles in I any business way and Just took a rundown run-down here to look In on the convention conven-tion tionAs to the reported Union Pacific cutoff cut-off to Salt Lake there Is nothing in It That and reports of other alleged railroad rail-road moves seem to originate in Guernsey Guern-sey The Burlington has not built west of that point yet and I doubt even If they arc running as far west a Guernsey S B B Prof Albion W Small of sociology at the University of Chicago is a guest at the Knutsford hotel en route to the Pacific coast where he Is to deliver lee tures on various sociological topics This Is my first trip west of Omaha he said last evening and I am delighted de-lighted with the country although I can see that Its most attractive phases are not presented at this time of tho year Salt Xake especially pleases mc there are so many desirable features about 1L Prof Small expressed gratification at the progress made by sociology in this country and the increasing attention that is being given to it by the educated public Prof Small Is a Johns Hopkins enthusiast in his graduate and an profession pro-fession and has a high appreciation of President Harper of Chicago university univer-sity He leaves for tho west tomorrow and in the meantime Is making the acquaintance ac-quaintance of local educators 4 B Our people have become alarmed over the prospect for next summer said Samuel L Page of Plute county yesterday at the White house There has been a long succession of dry years and the drought has become so oppressive oppres-sive that many stock have had to be removed to other fields where such continued con-tinued drought does not prevail A numbeu of our cattlemen have removed to British soil where those who have returned on a visit say ideal grazing the conditions obtain This will be means of taking more of our stockmen stock-men away and unless there is more precipitation Pluto county will eventually event-ually be given over entirely to the miners There are great prospects ahead for mining operations I |