Show TALKS WITH TRAVELERS R H Terhune of the staff of experts ex-perts Is in town Prom the Glasgow and Western properties in Nevada on a visIt vis-It He said yesterday There is nothing noth-ing In particular to be said about mining mi-ning interests there but the local hay crop will be vcryj heavy this season The Humboldt river is now shrinking owing to shortage In MOw and there will be a shortage in water before long Tho Southern Pacific people are intensely in-tensely active in Nevada Our station agent tells mo that the railroad comj pany is expending n000000 In ballasting ballast-ing alone and then very heavy steel eightyeight pounds to the yard I be Hove is being laid The railroad company com-pany isevidently preparing for an Immense Im-mense business V o Postmaster TV W Wilson of Sandy was In town yesterday He expressed gratification with the workings of the new Sandy rural delivery which began operations on tho 16th Inst and said We are already serving 100 families and when we are In full working order or-der we shall be able to serve 300 families fam-ilies Tho people In our district take very kindly to the increased mall facilities fa-cilities and are complimentary in their remarks on the convenience J C Brown the old veteran and pioneer is our carrier Ho leaves Sandy at 910 a in and gets back at 4 p m His route Includes Taylorsvllle and Bing ham Junction so that two Important suburban points are thus taken care of A As the saying is we are ploughing aagebrush and Irrigation from dry croek out in our county said Superintendent Super-intendent R Hobbs of the April Fool mill at the Cullen yesterday That Is to say It Is very dry and we would bo pleased to have the clerk of tho weather send some rain to Dc LaMar La-Mar But local mining interests continue con-tinue to improve and our mill of ten I stamps Is to 10 Increased shortly to twenty stamps Values In our local ores are Increasing particularly in gold as ve go down on the shaft There is talk further of the extension exten-sion of the McCunc road and if I this Is done our camp will be within thirty miles of a railroad a great Improvement Improve-ment over present conditions A S Many a man has come out into the boundless West and suddenly dropped from sight as though the earth had swallowed him up said Willjam Root at the Cullen uIn the course of my 1 experience on the plains and In the mountains I have noted a good many of them I remember one man who died suddenly in Wyoming a few years ago lie was very reticent as to his origin but had been through tho war served on Sheridans staff and made something some-thing oaname for himself Well when he died we were all up a stump to know how to get word to his relatives rela-tives until I finally remembered having heard him casually remark once about a sister at Rondout N 1 I Immediately Imme-diately wrote there and found this tab ta-b the case She wrote back that her brother had suddenly walked out oC the house at Elizabeth N J one day in 1SC1 and they hadnt seen him since Why the man should want to act thus no one seemed to know Ive come across skeletons In out of the way places skeletons of white men with bullet holes In their nkulls with broken bones and other evidences to show they had died violent deaths died with their boots on and If one small fraction of the secrets of the plains could be written up they would make a story calculated to stand a mans hair on end I |