| Show TALKS WITH TRAVELERS I have noticed that It requires Eastern East-ern people a much longer time and considerably more formality to transact business than people In the far West remarked L lL Tllden of Washington at the Cullen yesterday Two Eastern business men meet to strike a trade and It generally requires two or three further meetings to settle the matter Two Western men can transact the same amount of business in five minutes min-utes at L chance meeting on the street There Is much less formality In thc far West than in the East and this directness of methods and minimum of red tape aro to be commanded Air Tllden who represents the United States Bureau of Labor says Salt Lake compares very favorably with other I cities of the same size only cities further I fur-ther East huvci llr hlLd the advantage pf more paved streets and Improvements of that 5 J character I feel confident that Gen H C Kessler will be the Republican candidate candi-date for Governor of Montana at the next election said Fred Harris of Butte sit the Knutsford yesterday And he will be elected Gen Kessler was Colonel of the First Montana volunteers vol-unteers and Is I a fine man There Is not a more respected man in the State than he Tho General entered the Civil war as a private In a Pennsylvania a Pennylvanla regiment regi-ment and came out a Captain and he has donu well ever since i ° Trafllc both passenger and freight continues very heavy over the Rio Grande Western said Master Mechanic Me-chanic English at th Kenyon yestor day Extras are tho order of the day in freights and are likely to remain so indefinitely The Western is I doing a remarkable business for n road of Its I size In response to questions Mr I English said he understood there J1lglsh Int was to he an enlargement of the repair and roundhouse plant at Helper before long I Increasing business 0 h was demanding It Yes xve have had a grand rain down In Washington county and none of It ran off remarked BI hon Andrus at the Ctillen last night But the ground was so dry that It could stand another soaking rain very well and this would certainly insure the most abundant crops However as it is the crops will bo good and the range food excellent There was t regular downpour all through our country taking In even Phoenix I I i imagine Ncbeker Is doing well with I his copper properties in the Buckskins lie and his associates are taking in a i 1 lenchlng plant there a well as a smelt lug plant though just what they are after In this dual procedure I do not understand We do not mind so jiiuch now the lack of l railroad Into St I George f there Is a good road to Mo nlda on the Utah Pacific However there I Is opportunity for a good road downthe VIrgin Into California wlth nut going into Arizona and a railroad Iould be built north from Kingman into Utah The bishop is up on a business trip and la gratified with the general renelul outlook in the ta south |