Show TALKS WITH TRAVELERS About sis inches of snow foil up in I our country durinG the recent storm I said F W Ross of St Anthony yca t terday at the Manltou As there was i no frost In the ground the snow which presently melted was all absorbed by the soil and did a great deal of good I i The season Is a month ahead with us and farmers are all pushing the plough i I and hurrying up the spring work I We arc to have a big louring mill one of 200 barrels a day capacity to cost about 50000 to be built by Denver Den-ver parties In act the site Is being laid out now so that by fall the plant can be In operation The region around I St Anthony Is an immense wheat I country and It has been found that line wheat can be successfully grown on the dry benches where Irrigation Is not foasfujp This will p ove a great boon and aid most materially In bringing bring-ing more land under cultivation Now people kIp coming along and I settling with a vlvw to remaining in the volley and Indications point to a big ncrcase this year In our population The new railroad is doing u heavy I business and making money so that I the building of that branch Is already I I a paying proposition There Is talk j i about the Burlington coming Into 101 I lou stone park but then about every I town In Idaho Is looking for the Burlington Bur-lington Timber 15 I plenty the sawmills j mills are well patronized building1 continues I con-tinues and our fruit and other crops I aplreal to be all right o I I i do not see why sugar maples cannot I I can-not be made to grow successfully in Utah or In some parts of it at least remarked James W Fuller a veteran Vermont maplt syrup man at the I Knutsr rd yesterday Cold nights 1 and warm days In spring are required und this combination ought to be found to obtain r > vir a good slmro of this State Under the bun of warm spring days the sugar maple expands Its libers open and capillary attraction or some physical principle draws the sap up from the roots Then t night the chill causes the nee to contract and tho sap stops running Vermont turns out more sugar and syrup than all the rest of the country though many other States make tho maple sap produitn New York manu I factures a good ilial There Is I o great l deal of fraud In tlw sugar business to much so that our firm will not handles it hut confines itself to syrup manufacture manu-facture dooalled pure maple sugar made up largely of cane sugar Is put on tho market < and the holdover ic inalnu oC more or less I pure very often less sugars of previous seasons arc I arranged In seductive appearance by grocers about two weeks before the I making season actually opens In Vermont Ver-mont with the legend I Pure and fresh maple sugar just In from Vermont The surest way to get mnple sugar you can rely on ay positively fresh and positively pure Is to have friends you know In the sugur country send you a boxliushiess JJiissinesg continues very good In maple syiup of which u great deal Is shipped Into this State 0 Uncle GolIIs P Huntington intends making Galveston a big terminal said II M Truckcart Jr at the Knutsford yesterday He bought ten blocks ot I watorrrout for 200OuO and Is building a line lot of whaivy there for use of 1 his vessels to mil fiom Galvcblun to tile pilncipal Atlnntlo senbonrd points i I Mr JJiintlngtcm recently bought a lull road running between Houston and Galveston so that the Southern Pacific has now Its own line to the Gulf and that he will carry out his promise to make of this port one of the big points on his system Is evident from the preparations now In progress Galveston is on an Island thirtyone miles long by two and onehalf miles wide with a line harbor The great dfiricully there was to get a supply of drinkable water A 3000foot well was sunk but only yielded brackish water So a series of wells seventeen or twenty twen-ty miles to the north on the mainland were sunk and excellent water found This Is now piped into the city under the bay Floods and cloudbursts have no terror for us at Austin and other I I mainland points Business grows S greater each year the main ofllces of I the Santa Fe lines in Texas are centered I cen-tered in Galveston and our general shipping interests are largely on the Increase a a There Is no distinction between regular and volunteer In the Philippines Philip-pines now said Uout Albert C Allen yesterday All are American soldiers whether in the icgular establishment or otherwise and all are doing equally well If one particular body of men happens to be mentioned In reports It Is not because they are really doing better than others but because they chance to be noticed at the time by some commanding olllcer As to when the lighting will end well that Is I something that cannot bo stated Just now It depends a good deal upon when the Insurgents will take a notion no-tion that it is useless to continue longer long-er and quit ifrho gunboat Laguna de Bay which did such good service under the Utah batteries fs now commanded I believe by First Lieut Thomas Franklin Frank-lin of the Twentythird Infantry one battalion of which is 1 understand ordered or-dered to Fort Douglas as the depot battalion Who will be In command of It on arrival here I do rot know As to the antllmpcrlnlstlc literature sent to the soldiers 1 and the position of the antis generally soldiers In the Philippines Philip-pines have a very poor opinion They dont go on that sort of thing at all S 4 a The new auditorium building at Kansas City will be ready for occupancy occu-pancy by June 15th said B Mosley of that city at time Kenyon last night Over 100000 has been subscribed and this with the Insurance money will provide for a better structure than the one that was burned The fire that consumed the late auditorium was a sublime spectacle with Its seas oC flame leaping up over fifty feet Into the air There were twentylive lire engines throwing water but they could do nothing beyond protect adjoining I property The prices of stoves S are to be advanced I ad-vanced 10 per cent this month and a meeting of stove men Is to be held In a few days In Chicago to settler tho business said Morton C Bennett of Detroit at the Kuutsford yesterday One reason for the advance Is that a 5 per cent advance in wages has been made to the workmen With the good times the laboring men Is reachIng reach-Ing out for his share of the persimmons persim-mons I have Just been traveling through California and found business there very good Gas stoves la the style most affected on the coast as they have not much use for warming apparatus Coal and the oil found I near Los Angeles are uNd for generating generat-ing gas the oil doing very well The Philippine 1 Oh never mind the Philippines It Is hot enough out there to roaut a leg of mutton in the aim They dont need stoves over I there Ij j I rI should say from what I havo I heard that the output from Norn this year will lHt vrellnljh onto JSOOWOOO I remarked T Ft Miles of Dawson last night at the Knuwford and the output out-put from the Klondike will be 20000000 more There Is I ft big exodus from the Klondike to the cap Some 2WO people peo-ple have already irone and they have j been leaving at the rate of eightysix I a day The Canadian Government ha J I In consequence come down from its high horse and Is J treating American j miners with mu h mfr courtesy and Icon I-con WeraUon than ever before The exodus does not mean that the I Klondike placet have given out only I that the miners believe that there Is j much more gold to be had at the cape i li i n fn the Klondike and Way they J I t I > 1t ronv down from the I 1 P f h t 1rof n < > ni r j j 0 yi l I fl I JI1 44 J 1 r 1 < 1 j I |