Show I TALKS WITH TRAVELERS There was no snow In Beaver county coun-ty when I came up said P B McKcon of Milford tit the Cullon yesterday and sheep have been herded In the vicinity of sprIng creeks and water holes But this last storm may have dropped some snow on the regular winter feeding feed-ing grounds In which event the herds can be driven back to the winter pasturage I i I pas-turage Have not hoard anything new about the extension of the Utah Pa i clllc although local gossip has It that I an early advance will be made The winter has been open and mild quite I In contrast with the experiences of last winter Business generally especially I i in merchandising has been good In I Beaver county I Mr MeKcon returned home last night with his wife and son the latter I I having been attending school at the I Pennsylvania military academy at Chester I I K I Development In the physical features I I of railroading has been for a long time tending toward heavier motive power I and rolling stock equipment But of course there is a limit and that has i been about reached remarked Gen I oral Agent W II Firth of the Rock Island at the Knulsford yesterday i Some railroads like the New York I Central and Illinois Central have been I laying 100pound steel in and out of I terminal points but experience Is showing this size to be too large and there have already been complaints that the shank of the rail Is so wido that It breaks HMghtyfivepound rails are as heavy I think as should be I used although It Is claimed that ninety pounds will become the standard The I Rock Island Is laying a great deal of S3pound steel the ChicagoOmaha line tcel ChlagoOmaha lne I being wholly of that weight Very large engines are being used more than ever We are using powerful l power-ful tenwheelers east of LImon Junc i Lon with lighter engines Into Denver j aa the trains divide at the Junction I part going to Denver and part to Colorado Colo-rado Springs The Denver Rio t Grande Is buying engines more power I I1 til than It has been using and the I I Burlington has two or three locomotives locomo-tives IL calls grey hounds with seven foot drivers and compound cylinders We find business here very satisfactory I There has been hardly enough snow In New York State to cover the ground this winter said W I Wisdom of New York city at the Cullen yesterday yester-day Why a year ago there was six inches by Thanksgiving to say nothing of the deep falls that afterward occurred oc-curred The contrast between the two seasons has been remarkable I fear a great deal of our grain will be winter killed In consequence but the railroads have been spared a big Item of expense imnedofl ex-pense and travel generally has been un j How Is York State going this fall i Well I cant tell The Governor has stirred up a hornets nest In antagonizIng antagoniz-Ing the Republican machine and If 1 there Is not more haiirony than has prevailed of late there Is no telling I what Platt may do State Insurance Commissioner Paynes term ran out recently i I re-cently and he was tho machine candidate candi-date for reappointment But tho Governor Gov-ernor rather guessed noL The Republicans I Repub-licans In the lower house of the Legislature Legis-lature thought they were strong enough to stand the Governor off and reappoint reap-point Payne but the rough rider refused re-fused to budge and finally Payne pulled off the track In the Interest of harmony I Platt goes home to mend his fences about campaign time and Is out of politics for the benefit of his health or to take a muchneeded rest the Stale may go Democratic Plat tried to have Roosevelt run for Vice President and thus get him out of the way but the Governor said no and that scheme failed New York politics I Is a good deal like a watch movement it requires delicate adjustmenl and an harmonious relation of parts In order to run smoothly o t We had no snow up to Monday of last week said J D Cazler of Vernal Ver-nal at the Walker yesterday but I received a letter from there dated Tuesday I Tues-day evening staling lhat the continuous I continu-ous fine weather had come to an end I and It WZItS snowing quite hard This will prove a great thing for our stockmen I stock-men as well as for stockmen elsewhere I else-where for the soil had become pretty dry Business has been satisfactory in our section and smallpox has let us I alone There is I considerable teaming between Toana and Cherry Creek of I silverlead ores gllsonlte general merchandise mer-chandise etc A railroad from Price I through Vernal would be a godsend and at the rate our part of the Slate is settling up and being developed a railroad I rail-road at no distant date Is regarded asa as-a fair probability 0 Lieu I A r Ferguson of the Thirty sixth Infantry was a guest at the Knulsfoid yesterday en route East from Luzon on sick leave He was shot through both hands last October losing part of n finger of the left hand and the other hand was still bandaged But I had the satisfaction remarked the officer of seeing the chocolate hued duck who drew bead on me knocked off his perch by one of my men as oon as L was wounded and he became n good Indian In very short order The officer has been In poor health ever sice However said he I I shall rejoin my regiment In April The Thirtysixth Infantry like the Thirtyseventh and the Eleventh cavalry cav-alry Is I composed mostly of soldiers from the old State regiments some of the latter being now represented by entire companies That Is I GOO old volunteers vol-unteers made up the nucleus of each of the three commands and recruits mn cup c-up the rest Our Colonel the youngest In the service was a Captain in the First Colorado and became Colonel on Col Kobbes promotion to he Brigadier General The volunteers now In the field light Just as well as the old volunteers and are better disciplined as they have regular army officers for field olllcers The Thirtythird is a crack regiment Its men are from Texas New Mexico and Arizona mostly the former I with a Texan for Colonel Capt Hare of the Seventh cavalry They are all crack shots and have cut so many notches on their guns since taking the field to use a Western expression that there are no more places left for record on the gun stocks I have not paid much attention to the war since joining the hospital population but I know that hundreds If not thousands of those estimable Filipino gentlemen have donned Ihelr angel plumage whose mortuary relurna have not been sent to the United States Bands did you ask Yes we have some very good ones that Is other regiments have for the Thirtysixth has none ExBan master Carl MIndi of the Sixth artillery has got up a band of 100 Filipinos and whipped them Into such fine shape that they claim to be the biggest tiling of that kind in the islands The First Colorado had the best band of the old volunteers Lieut Ferguson paid a high tribute to the Utah batteries whose name will ever remain green In the memories ot old soldiers The Lieutenant was originally origi-nally a sergeant In the Twentieth Kansas Q I Z E and J J Jewell of Dawson arc guests at the Kcnyon They corroborate corrobo-rate the a general predictions of the great I rush this spring to Cape Nome not only from the States but from other parts of frm Alaska tht and Klondike and look for I harvest Dawson an enormous golden j fan I I recovering from the effects of the I ire and more substantial buildings are f going up The Klondike will continue I golnS but the develop to be a big producer ments at Cape Nome have made even the Klondike recede to a position or i secondary Importance F t i 1 I I I rather think tho GOOOtiO acres oft of-t Ulntah reservation lands to bel leased r ot from 12000 to I will bo ploked up 1200 515 000 wild ForestSupervisor G P Burlier of Coalvlllc at the Cullen lant J < j night Preston Nutter had tlieit lands last and his lease ran out last fall He paid 57001 but the Indiana claim they should not be leased again under I 10IOO and as the proposition IB a GovernmentIndian copartnership sort of an affair the wishes of the Indians I I are likely to be respected The sum naked for as the minimum figure Is not I C large when we consider that 25000 head of cattle will be admitted to theso lands to graze making a mental of less than four bits per head which Is cheap I enouth and then In lieu of one head of stock ten sheep will be admitted J Swift Co or Chicago are bidders for I the privilege Hut just here there Is one matter In i this connection that ought to he given j special connlderatlon I refer to the j I limphonored practice of eating down n range without reseedlng It This ought I not to be allowed Each season tho grass la I eaten down and there Is less t the next year and whore leasing goes II by the year no attempt Is made to reseed re-seed or rejuvenate the soil Now every stockman ought to be required to sow crass seed each fall where his herds I huve been pasturing and the fall rains j I would cause the seed to take root so I I that In the spring the young grass i would grow to maturity In lime for the i i summer feed I 1 I have Just come from the forest j J reserve where the snow was up to my I saddle girths which means plenty of water for the Weber river watershed I next season |