Show w m TALKS WITH TRAVELERS A A DUe n prominent lumberman from Rock Springs Is I a guest at the Knutsford Mr Inley has two largo sawmills saw-mills In steady operation on ties for tho Union Pacific which is taking all that can be furnished Ho says thero arc very large forests of mountain pine at tho headwaters of tho Green river from which supplies can bo had for many years to come Hock Springs Mr Utley states Is one of tho liveliest points on the Union Pacific road and Is taking on a rapid growth Then the famous Spring Valley oil wells are not far Distant so that the town IH 1 catching ncW business on their account V Engineer c II Fitch of the United States hydrographlc survey left last drolrphlc I night for Denver whore ho will consult with tho Deputy Stato Engineer rela Deput tire to irrigation In Gunnlson valley and I thon goes to Boise for consultation therewith there-with the State Engineer relative to tho I projftct for an Irrigating canal from Henry Fork to the Kamas plains Mr Fitch says The successful carrying out of 1 this schema means n great deal for that part of the Statc II n tho reclamation of thousands of acres of hitherto unproductive unproduc-tive lands Tho Stato nnd general Government 1 Gov-ernment share lie expense of this survey sur-vey veyW 0 0 V j W M Whlto of Beaver Is a guest at tho Cullen ito says Beaver county Is In bator I bat-or shape In many waya than It has ever I been before The plentiful rain supply has given the farming and stock Industries I Indus-tries a great start and the mining ope ration particularly around Milford have of late made great strides 01 V o I F Ellis Miller membership and financial secretary of tim San Francisco Y M Cit C-it was In town yesterday for a short tlmo en route hpmo to the coast after an extended trii East Ho said that his I association was making a special effort In the line of night school work and hog J got It systematized so that It works in fine shape He Is much encouraged en-couraged as to association work at largo as wherever he has been Mr Miller was pleased at seeing tho Salt Lake association associa-tion so prosperous looking O Ci Evangelist French Earl Olllver returned from Alaska yesterday and Is at tim Cullen Cul-len Ho was at Juneau when the rescued res-cued survivors of tho Islander wcro brought In and gathered u consensus ol opinion from the passengers as to the causo of Utofcck1r01ler says whisky was at the bottom of the disaster The pilot was drunk on leaving Skuguuy I and barkeeper told him that Iho captain cap-tain was enjoying a midnight supper with a number of tho passengers at tho time I he should have been on deck Mr Oliver was told that tho captain sung Im 01 Jolly Good Fellow on deck before taking to tho life raft and that Instead of 1 beaching his vessel as ho should have done he ordered It out where It sunk In 409 feet of water Mr Oliver found a passenger pas-senger who declared the boat lid not slrlko an Iceberg but that It did strike a reef because ho saw the reef himself and it wns not moro than 5COO feet from lie mainland Tho captain the first oC fleer claimed commuted suicide by slm mlng away from the life raft when had he remained ho could have been rescued Mr Oliver will be In this city a fow days bcforo continuing to Tennessee V V S Editor F J Kramer of lie Denver Catholic Cath-olic is a gilcst at the Kuutsford Mr Kramer was formerly nclvll engineer In Salt Lake but found It advisable to change his avocation although occasionally occasion-ally he Is called In consultation as an ex perL Mr Kramer feels proud In being ablo to say that Denver IK at last going to havo a Catholic caihcdrul Vo will have a 520000 structure he said but havo been a long limo In making sure of iho money Ve have JOpOO t alh flies In Denver and the number Is Increasing In-creasing but we aro t > o spread out and scattered that about all of our spare cash lias had to bo used hv building churches to accommodate the different parishes I was much Impressed with Iho magnlll cant structure Utah Catholics are erect luLl on Brlghcm street The cntlro cliy will hao reason lo feel proud of that cathedral when completed I Mr Kramer was chief engineer of the Tellurldo Power company In ISO V o o Two million dollars Is going Into tho new El Paso smelter lobo built In tho place lie ono burnod some tlmo ago said B F Brown who was lately through that country That with tho new railroads rail-roads coming In there Is making business hum In that part of the South President Presi-dent McKinley made a big hit In Kl Paso Why there wafJ many dycdlnthewool l Domorrnts who declared they would have voted for thai man could they havo seen and heard him speak before election Both Gov Almmada of Chihuahua and Gem Hornandez of the Mexican army became enthusiastic admirers of iho President There are any number of American Inventors In-ventors going Into Mexico because oC tho safety of property there Thlovca and holdups are taken out and shot with nN llttlo ceremony as tho Spaniards used to 1 Hhoot captive Filipinos There lstb bo aIr a-Ir t theater dedicated In Iho city of Chihuahua next month and 1 am going down there by SPT hl nvitatlon C V S J S vms a Utah odllmor of the scvcntlcp at the Cullen from Jerome Ariz tells a wonderful talo of the rT L Clark United Verde copper mines there Said he In two years that 1 was workIng work-Ing In a big slope 1 did not sco a chunk worthless rock as large as your hat There arc six levels In that mhn 100 feet apart making the depth 700 feet The slopes run crosswise to the levels and will average SO feet wide and GO feet high tho apparent plan being to cut up from level to level making Immense cay eras Senator Clark has six furnaces going roasting ICO tons of oro dally and steady work Is given to 2000 men On tho 600foot level hero Is qullo a stream of water running out full of copper and they calch this by dumping old Iron In tlie stream which takes up three t or four I tons of copper cachllaThe bullion shipments average four to six cars per day and It Is currently believed that there is I enough gold in his bullion to pay for the cost of mining and treat meat There aro several organised mining companies composed of Easlorn men prospecting around the country near the United Verde mlnoa as It does not seem I as thouEli Clark could havo a cinch on all of the valuable copper properties In that country 0 S V Two oldtlmem at tho Cullen this week from Moapa Lincoln county Xev were I VC Williams and J H Thomas Tho former bus nol been her since 1W and I lie latter has not Razed upon Zion since 1SC1 Mr Thomas said he couldnt recog I nlzo anything aboul the town to remind him of the very early day IS the Tabernacle I Tab-ernacle had not then been built and the Toinplo was only a short distance upI up-I from the ground So Salt Lake Is an entirely I en-tirely new city to him He Is a mall route contractor In southern Nevada and I attended closely to business so that ho has not b < jon off lie route Zi many > ctrs Mr Thomas says that while tho proposed pro-posed railroads will not come very near Moapa still they will be near enough to materially help the town and tho country coun-try for a long distance around I Mr Williams said there Is a fine mineral min-eral country down In the apex country of Nevada with a great deal of copper I cropping out on the surface He notices marvelous chances In the city since ho saw It last when there were no electric elec-tric lights only the old mule cars on tho streets and the town dead after oclock at night The cohab excitement was then III full blast |