| Show TALKS WITH TRAVELERS We had sleighing in Beaver the other day although it was not of long duration said N P Ipson at the White house yesterday and the children chil-dren rode to school in sleighs that is such sleights as could be extemporized for the brief occasion In twentyfour hours fifteen inches of snow fell in town while back In the mountains there was a fivefoot fall Had the weather been colder there would have I been several days of good sleighing I But the snow melted and soaked Into I I the ground The storm extended clear I through Washington county so parties I fiom there told me This unexpected precipitation will prove a godsend and the farmers and stockmen all through our section are more or less hilarious over the prospects pros-pects of good ciops next year The sheepmen are taking their herds out onto the desert where there is now feed and water It has been a long time since there has been such a welcome wel-come visitation why In all of last year there was but one storm and that was In April o 0 0 They are raising great crops In the Alberta colonies said r Fewson Smith yesterday Why I saw potatoes nearly eleven Inches long and of proportionate pro-portionate diameter also rutabaga I turnips weighing twentyfour and twentYfive pounds cabbages weighing twenty pounds carroty eight to eighteen eight-een inches long and wheat grows thirty thir-ty and forty bushels to the acre Then sugar beets grow Slimly and as for grazing why the cattle are fat all the year round Theie is direct rail connection now iv ith j the colonies from Great Falls Mont to Sterling and Cnrclston There are many people moving in there from utan particularly ana the district will soon be well populated The snarl over the big Irrigating canal that has given so much trouble mainly because of too low estimates at the beginning has been straightened out The canal with Its connections is 100 miles long and inlgates a large area of territory terri-tory Sir Smith does not expect to go to 331 Paso for some > time aa on account of the great cost of extending the road of which he Is chief engineer through from near Casas ramies in Chihuahua to Guerero the Idea of making the ex tension has been set aside for the present pres-ent air Smith thInks that eventually the Rock Island road will buy out the Hlo Grande Sierra Madre Pacific road and extend It to the west Mexican Mexi-can coast V 0 I There Is not enough snow at Park City for good sleighing said D C McLaughlIn last evening at the Ivnutsford At the time of the Inst two snowfalls the ground was not frozen and the wet snow soaked into the ground Wc have not had any cold weather yet The scheme of a public library that has been talked about at the Park has not been bioucrht t to n head vet him t T I I expect It I will later on Park w City ran I use a public library to great advan i t age und I hope the proposition will be successful I The Rio Grande Western is giving1 I excellent satisfaction with Its direct service to Salt Iake and only tmv clortf having business nt points on tho Ogden route are traveling that way a o t T P Shannon of Idaho Falls Judge Powcrss private secretary back in the I Liberal party days is in the city for a few days Tom has made a good thing of It In rattle up north and is i chairman of the executive committee of the Idaho StookGrowers associa tion lie said yesterday The gener al outlook In the cattle business io bright and Is likely to remain so We are not troubled with cattle rustlers any more as through the energetic ac I lion of cattle owners cattle stealing has been made too unprofitable for further continuance 1 I I The fact that the State went Demo cratic will not affect Immigration und I there Is I a general expectation of u very heavy movement In that line the com ing year HO that Idahos population will continue to Increase rapidly as In I tho past The sheepmen sire beginning l to buy up lands for pasturing the your I round and 1 D Wood has bought up I and fenced In a forljmlle strip This will restore pleasant relations between I the sheepmen amid can lemon O o C E 1 liaddnlz the Stockton mining I man pays there is I more snow now In Dry canyon than fell there all ol last winter Hw ways the country received a thoiough t soaking I |
