Show TALKS WITH TRAVELERS I There IB petroleum down In the San Juan river scattered along for some thirty miles below Bluff said Bishop F Hammond nt the Cullen yester day and al one spring It comes up no that a barrelful has been secured in a short time But owing to the dis tance from a railroad It may be some y > arp before any attempt Is made to handle the oil commercially Three new settlements have been es tablished in San Juan stake this year by people from New Mexico and Arizona Ari-zona who have taken up lands on the upper San Juan river near Frultland twenty five to fifty families In all The recent rains have done a good deal for our stock In freshening up thc ranges so that in three or four weeks the range grass has grown up anew consequently stock Is in good shape and prices have stiffened < < It sometimes happens that a year passes without our having a drop of rain The fruit crop has turned out well so have wheat oats hay corn and barley Then the mining prospects are excellent o 0 The Rio Virgin has such an extended ex-tended watershed that It takes an unprecedentedly dry season to reduce our irrigation supply at St George remarked 1 Thomas Judd at the Cullen yesterday So through the valleys there Is no shortage to speak of and crops flourish But back a ways tho dry season has left the fruit crop slightly slight-ly I withered However Ihe almond crop is as good if not better than ever before be-fore as the exhibit at the State fair will show Almonds could be grown successfully In Salt Lake but for tho early frosts In Arizona and parts of New Mexico good almond crops are regularly reg-ularly harvested We hopl to ace the Los Angeles road routed by the way of SL George Washington county will give it a heavy patronage In ores as well as other things o + a The Klondike Is looming up greater than ever said William Bennett of Cripple Creek at the White house yesterday yes-terday l have been at both Nome and Dawson and lately returned from Nome Dawson is still a placer country coun-try although In many cases now It Is I necessary to sink shafts down to tho old stream beds where the yellow metal met-al is found in paying quantities Nome Is good only for a moderate sized camp there is no more gold In the beach and you must go up the creeks to find It But tho Klondike Is a growing grow-ing country < OWe O-We were to have had civil service examinations today said Examiner J J Kemp of Washington at the Kenyon yesterday but there were no candidates candi-dates so I continued the examinations to October Sih The scarcity of candidates candi-dates I attribute to the prosperous Mc I Klnloy times which has given so many people work that precious few are out hunting Jobs I llnd the greatest scarcity scar-city of applicants In the examinations for Government department clerkships and the railway mail service But we can stand this very well as there are hardly over fifty Government clerks ap pointed annually and the applicant list of both branches always have an abundant supply to draw from Mr Kemp GOes from here to Sacramento Sacra-mento thence to Los Angeles Phoenix El Paso Albuquerque and Trinidad a o a There arc two and three Democratic tickets in the field to one Republican said Theodore Ehrets of Anaconda yes terday at the Walker house There are the Clark and Daly and In nine places Independent Democratic tickets so that between them Montana ought to go Republican both State and na tional cio hI would advise our Eastern people to travel more In the West and become acquainted with their own country said A C Shenstone a prominent New York attorney yesterday at the Knuts ford Jf this were done there would be more money than ever Invested In the great mineral States of the Rocky mountains This Is my first trip this far West and I am very much pleased with the country What remarkable scenery there Is along the Rio Grande roads both In Colorado and Utah There arc unfortunately many Eastern people who Imagine the Western States are still on the frontier and are wild and uncultivated A trip West will convince them to the contrary o o C Lowe of the Otis Elevator company com-pany has returned from a months stoat sto-at Boise Concerning the political situation sit-uation In that State he last night said I had a good opportunity to gauge the trend of politics In Idaho and I am satisfied that the State will give a good majority for McKInley I did not hear a single traveling man express himself In favor of Bryan and the railroad men are almost as solidly Republican Re-publican At the cigar stand in the Idanha hotel at Boise the Mclvlnlcy badges sold In far greater numbers than tne Bryan badges |