Show = = TALKS WITH TRAVELERS V I R K Tucker of Aspen is a guest at I thu Cullen He has been buying umall lots of cows and yearling steers ag i gating < over 000 head from different I I Utah growers and paid J1SOOO in round I numbers for tho lot Ue A rIlh ship the 1 cattle to tho ranges near AKpon Mr rucker remarked yesterday There are no sheen In our section with the exception of a few small bands 01 muttons mut-tons They die suddenly and unexpectedly unexpect-edly In something moro than carload lots when any arc driven into the country coun-try Cattle interests rule In Pitkin I county and growirs will not tolerate I I hcep > So this class of atoclc Is kept away and the ranges arc gicn over entirely en-tirely to cattle The local J mines continue to be I worked notwithstanding the low price of silver and we are putting out more oro than previously only = It la I not so I rich The Mollle Gibbon is 1 doing well hut there arc no longer chunks of silver I I oro cut out bo rich that smelting and I refining arc unnecessary Why 1Y worth of ore in chips was taken out of I 1 one dilll hole once Aspen Is gradually I 1 losing its population Many people ainc there exporting to make their pile J immediately Thcv consequently arc removing to other diggings where they I hope to pick gold nuggets from blackberry black-berry bushes The great and only D I Clark Wheeler has abandoned Aspen and gone to Cripple Creek where his varied and versatile acquirements will I have a freer course to run and be glorified glori-fied There Is I not much snow In Pitkin county no more tlan you have here I a o I There are quite a number of Mifa I neapolig people lullrested in ditch and mining properties in Utah and Arizona I Ari-zona said L Andrews of Minneapolis I rt the Knutslord ysterdny Several of our people have considerable money invested In this Stat and there arc a number jnlcrl ted in Arizona espr 1 dally in the big Gila canal which will 1 reclaim un immense tract of country when the system with which it is connected I con-nected has been developed The hard times rather pinched the development but tilt work Is being resumed with I excellent prospects I noticed the effects III the difference of altitude between Williams on the Santa Fc road and Phoenix When at I the hal tcr idaro the cathcr was BO warm thf t summer clothing was u necessity V ne-cessity there was at the name lime hue J sleighing und skating at Williams distant dis-tant I about two hours ride Frequently skating coasting and sleighing parties would br made uj > In Phoenix the excursionists ex-cursionists changing from light to heavy clothing en route r Then after i enjoying the local New England winter climate with its accompanying Icy luxuries I lux-uries including moonlight sleigh rides I the pleasure seekers would return and I exchange an niclic for u tropical climate cli-mate again Phoenix has become preeminently a resort for consumptives these coming there from all quarters of the United States until the place threatens t to become be-come a vast spittoon The climate was very dry years ago but since the lacework lace-work system oT irrigating canals was established the climate has become moist as well as hot and this makes it very uncomfortable at times In summer few peoplu are seen on the streets in the middle of the day they hunt cover from tho fierce heat just I as people do in Calcutta and Bombay i at that lime of day But speaking of heat you should cross the Indlo desert in California in July I made the trip once and dont want any more Why we had to shut the cur windows to keep the burning hot winds out and the mercury in the car stood at 120 I dont wonder that dead Yuma soldier sent back from Tartarus for his blankets blank-ets John Owens and party of fourteen Ohio excursionists are guests at the White house Mr Owens said yesterday yester-day We went to New Orleans and thence to the City of Mexico and around via Los Angeles We saw ito snow except a little this side of Sacramento Sac-ramento and of course there was none in the southern country Southern California Cal-ifornia is full of Eastern visitors Were It not for winter visitors and fruit I do not see how the people of southern California could live The orange and lemon crops have turned out very fair this season but the drought for several seasons past has had a bad elfect on the other crops We found many Americans in the City of Mexico although it was a little early for the winter rush to begin But there arc so many there already as residents res-idents that the knowledge of Spanish is not necessary to find ones way around jSngllsn Js spoken everywhere 1 In all tho large stores are to be found Englishspeaking clerics and the younger genera lion is being largely brought up to speak the English tongue T hardly think there are as I many American tourists In the city this year owing to so many taking it into their heads to visit Havana Porto Rico and Honolulu Mr Owens is a Welshman and conversed con-versed yesterday in the Welsh as readily read-ily as in the English tongue His party spent the day looking over the city and < 1 will sojourn awhile at Glenwood Springs before continuing toward Ohio Mr Owens pays Ohio will show a great Republican majority this fall e o i > Yes New Jersey haa taken In Immense Im-mense sums in fees from the super numerous corporations that Incorpo ate there but we have a crowd of politicians poli-ticians who know how to make away with It all said Joseph frames of Camden at the Keuyon yesterday We have politics reduced to ti lIne point In New Jcisey New York city has a political pol-itical boss in Croker < as Nw York State has a political boss in Platt Pennsylvania did have a boss in Quay Maryland in Gorman etc and New Jersey has a boss In United States Sen aim Jl Sewall Gov Voorhees Is but the Senators sutf llite Fo we arc in it with other commonho of the Union O 0 X I W J Peters li T Perkins Jr and Jeremiah Ahern of the United States geolo1cal survey were at the Kenyon last night They leave this morning for the west side of the Blngham hills to complete the survey of a small section sec-tion remaining from tho topographical survey of the Vest Mountain mining i i district Then the party will go to Washington to work out the results o 1 their labors in the field Mr Perkins I said last night A careful topographical topographi-cal survey of the district covering I twentyfour square miles has been Inllh and later the members of the geographical > l corps will make drawings I of the geological formation our on work being purely topographical At whoso Instance this has been done I do not know but when the maps are printed they will show all the features of the surface and the peculiarities of the grounds underneath the surface V W U Superintendent French of tho Blue Jacket mlue In the Seven Devils country i coun-try leaves this morning for the north I I I after a pleasant stay in the city Mr French l remarked last night It is a great relief for one who hag been penned up In the mountains several i months to take u run Into town and I get a change of surroundings It becomes I I be-comes very monotonous to be confined j within the same limits for such lengths I I of time There Is evidently a boom In store for the Seven Devils region In I fact the face of nature is beginning to be covered already with the prospcc i I i torn and their little picks I |