Show TALKS WITH TRAVELERS 11 am delighted with this city In fact with all of the country between Port I land and Salt Lake and the country through eastern Oregon and Idaho Impressed I Im-pressed me as being susceptible of ic markablo possibilities said Mrs Keel er of Chicago wife of Col William Keeler at tha Knutsford yesterday The Colonel and myself have been wintering win-tering on the coast and while It was cool and very wet In Portland it was very dry and very hot In southern California Cal-ifornia There have been an Immense number of Eastern people at the Pacific Pa-cific coast resorts the past season so that in southern California it was hard to find quarters I do think our American artists would do well if they paid less attention atten-tion to European scenes and topics and spent more time In painting and drawIng draw-Ing grand scenic effects In their own native land The Pacific coast and mountain country present innumerable themes for artistic representation and the Idaho country and scenery about this Great Salt lake ought to attract most any painter a e Judge George A Clark of Butte who has been traveling in the East and Is at the Kenyon said yesterday The Yankees arc the cutest and shrewdest people on the face of the earth They save everything and lose nothing in manufacturing as well as In bargains and the machinery they use Is developed devel-oped to the last degree The most Intricate In-tricate mechanical operations are car lied on by machinery and apparatus often so complicated as to be a source of constant astonishment to visitors I Cost of production has been figured down to the smallest fraction of a cent which shows what calculators these Yankees are and the cardinal sin with them Is wastefulness and exlraagance In Industrial or commercial operations They can squeeze a dollar until the eaglo thereon screams with pain or they can squeeze a man In a1 bargain I until he Is so thin as to compare favorably favor-ably with the shadow of tho average Boston girl S S g There Is enough white pine timber In tho Truckee country to last for the next sixty years said D H McEwan of San Francisco yesterday at the Ken yon The Sierra Nevada Wood and Lumber company own or control most of the tract Inquestlon and although there are other saw mill companies at or near Truckee their territory Is pretty well stripped of material And where theso pine trees are cut down there Is no renewed growth In sixty years from now where to get a lumber supply Is going to prove a serious question Sequoia wood Is cut and used considerably con-siderably but Its fiber Is short and easily breaks so that it does not compete com-pete successfully with pine The Government Gov-ernment I understand proposes to save one of the large California groves and no moro cutting will be allowed there Wo are shipping Truckee lumber as far East as Boston and even Into Oshkosh and other Wisconsin and Michigan points The white pine supply has been I so reduced in the Middle North that we are able to do what vould seem like sending coals to Newcastle Georgia pine does not compete as It Is used for rough work while ours Is used for finishing fin-ishing We find a large market in Chicago Chi-cago S 6 4 Twenty millions it Is calculated have been lost In the grent building trades strike In Chicago said David G Calder who bus Just returned from an Eastern business rip I And If the threats of some of the unions arc carried out there will be a million of men on a strike Many contractors and manufacturers manufac-turers are willing to allow the claim fur nine hours to constitute a days work but they want some assurance or guarantee that the men will work steady for the nine hours and nQt loan lo-an time I The piano trade Is rushed to death Time strike In that trade last winter set the manufacturers back so that now that work has been resumed It Is Impossible Im-possible to fill orders promptly O S A J Fewson Smith who has returned from an engineering trip through western west-ern Chihuahua says of that country There la an Immense district there very rich In silver lead and copper waiting for development and as soon IH railroad connections can be built there will be n steady stream of ore I Into El Paso A now smelter is to be built at the latter point vrhfre It Is I much needed HM thol Increasing volume of ore being exported from south ot tile Rio Grande demands treatment nearer than the points where most of It is now shipped to A great deal of ore from Mexico Is shipped over the Southern Pacific to Eagle Pass and then south again to the smelters at Monterey and there Is a great deal that goes to the Colorado smelters The one smelter at El Paso cannot handle the ore that is shipped oyer the line from the south |