Show TALKS WITH TRAVELERS ExSheriff McBride of Tooelo Is at tho White house The storm must have extended away over into Nc rude he said yesterday for the water wa-ter in places out on the great desert Is ten Inches deep The entire country lips received a good drenching and the Rscrt especially has been wet down so that abundant feed for next winter win-ter is assured to the sheep The dry bench farmers will profit especially by the rainfall and everybody out our way Is on the broad smile because of the success now assured the crops I noticed a call for sheepmen to drive over to Rio Grande Western points lo shear and ship But that Is practically Impossible for many of us this year at least You see Utah sheep have for the last few yearn been working north on account of the successive suc-cessive dry seasons which have made II I it hazardous to maintain live stock In I i the southern countries Now the sheep which have been driven north cannot be driven south after lambing to Rio Grande Western points and then get back north again in tune Consequently Conse-quently the Union Pacific Is likely to get the bulk of the wool shipments this year anyhow But afterward It maybe may-be different All suppositions as to the Santa Fes Colorado river branch across and into Kane county Utah may be put to sleep by MaJ K B Stantons statement state-ment of the situation and It may bo rasunlly observed that if anybody la posted on conditions along the Colorado Colo-rado river liu is Tn response to questions ques-tions yesterday the Major said The width of the Canyon of the Colorado IK from eight to thirteen miles This makes running u railroad bridge across it an Jmposslblllly Moreover It is not al all likely that the Santa Fc or any other road Is going lo build down COOO feet lo the river and then GOOO feet upon up-on the other side just to run up into TJlJjll lo get coal Mind you I dont say they will not but I only claim It is not al all likely However there is a feasible route by running north from Klngman Ariz crossing wool of the canyon where the Rio Virgin empties into the Ioloradn I thence following the Virgin non Ii and east into Washington county coun-ty Utah and thence into Kane county coun-ty or north lo Cedar City If the Santa Kt management Is tver disposed The forty miles of new load north from Williams on tho Senta Fo main line lo the I Grand Canyon Is simply for the convenience of tourist as It saves them eightysix miles of tedious stage ride r 6 IT A Dodge of Detroit is a young telegraph operator who has been assigned as-signed to temporary station down on lhe desert by l the Rio Grande Western I and was at the Cullen yesterday en t route lo his new berth His father was the last Capt Dodge of the Twen tythird I Infantry and his mother has the distinction of being the first United SlatrK army brldo In Arizona She Is a French lady and because of her being be-ing an imperialist during the Franco Prussian war wan obliged lo flee from Paris and found refuge in thIs country coun-try She started West later lo return to Europe via the Suez canal but at San Francisco met rapt Dodge and her trip ended right then and there The bride parllclpaled actively with her husband in his Arizona campaigns and endured the privations of army life without a complaint Their son Is a member of the Michigan National Guard and wears a marksmans badge However he is not In love with army life having seen so much of It In earlier ear-lier years and IK content to remain a civilian although there Is a good place for him In the signal corps should he want IL It Is just as well to be careful when you have 5 gold pieces and nickels In your pockets together philosophically philosophi-cally observed Col Pine at the Knuts ford yesterday In paying the porter last night for some service I gave him a yellow shiner by mistake But the man was honest and returned it to me later stating that lie had not noticed the superfluity of lucre In his Jeans until an hour or two afterward I put a 5 I gold piece by mistake into thai music box over there for a tune Instead of the customary nickel But I discovered the extra deposit in time and managed to rescue the coin A friend of mine put a 5 gold piece into a church collection plate in this city some time ago and did not discover dis-cover the error until he read In The Tribune on the cars the next morning how the deacons were overjoyed at finding this unexpected Indication of an open heart in thel plate the previous previ-ous day The depositor wrote back inclosing In-closing a quarter which he had Intended Intend-ed to contribute with the request that the 5 be forwarded to him It came all right At this moment the Colonel mechanically me-chanically fished out a lot of loose silver from his jeans and behold among It was a gold shiner Here Harry lie said as he tossud the coin onto the hotel clerk give me bills for that please William Penn Anderson traveling llves ock agent of the Santa Fo railroad rail-road was in the city yesterday Mr Anderson has Just returned from a trip to the Dakotas and Montana where he attended the mcetlngH of the livestock associations held at Dickinson Nand D N-and Miles City and Hclonu Mont He says that a thorough canvass of the cattlemen who were in attendance at these meetings dfeveloped the concurrent concur-rent opinion that cattle throughout the entire range country embracing the upper Missouri valley and Its tributaries tribu-taries Including the Yellowstone and I Milk rivers wintered with only nominal I loss Throughout the entire range country ho says the grass Is from three weeks to a month further advanced ad-vanced than usual This condition exists t ex-ists on the ranges from the Rio Grande to the Northwest Territory The recent snowstorms in the mountains and on the eastern edge of the Rockies could not havo been bettor limed or distributed dis-tributed for storage and Immediate water supply According to applications made for stock corn at the offices of the different railway hines Mr Anderson says It has been estimated that there have been bought 125000 head of Texas cattle to be shipped to the Northern ranges All the cattle shipped north coma from north or west of what Is known ns th > Texas fever or transquarantine land In the Southwest especially along tho I Santa Fo lines there seems to be a decided de-cided Incrunso of cattle but whether this can be taken for a criterion by which to estimate what the coming S livestock census will show IB still a matter of conjecture < |