Show TALKS WITH TRAVELERS I feel very sure that the burned hotel I at Ilnilcy Hot Springs ulll bo rebuilt I this year said James troightoji of BaIley at the Walker house yesterday The country up there Is altogether too attractive as a summer resort lo be neglected long The owner of the former hotel lives In Chicago and has his attention called now In other directions I di-rections so that he will not rebuild but II some one else will Tho location Is I two and a half miles from halley I Center on the Kelthum branch and n bettor spot for a big sum mm hotel I could hardly br found The fishing Is I unsurpassed and the surroundings are of a highly romantic nature Halley his done well the past year notwithstanding the frost that threatened threat-ened to cut off the hay crop A number of people feared hay would In consequence conse-quence go up to 20 and 23 per ton and began to buy In all they could get hold Of But the shortage failed to realize anticipations and when T i loft the other day the stock were feeding cm the ranges and winter feeding at the corrals cor-rals had not been thought of How ever there Is only six inches of snow II 1 In the country Just enough to make j good sleighing whereas we ought to have three or four feet to insure good I I range feed next season However I there were a number of heavy rains he l foro the snow fell so the ground has been thoroughly soaked While there are no big mining strikes that I know of in our district there Is a steady and valuable output of ore and we all expect that the current cur-rent year will he one of even greater prosperity than iSO which by the way was better than any live previous years A Mayor Henry Gardner of Spanish Fork Is a guest at the White house being be-ing In town as a member of the Federal I i grand jury Mr Gardner remarked last evening It is a matter of controversy I between the city and county and the State too for that matter as to who I shall bear the burden of the smallpox sickness that has been obtaining In our I city A State olllclal the secretary of the State Board of Health ordered the i quarantine though at present the city has boon called upon to pay the bill of > expense which is no Inconsiderable I um viz 519 up to January 1st and the season is only about half over Of I course the Lindsay theatrical party camo on the citys hands Lindsay stormed around when quarantined at the hotel threatening damage suits against the city the county and the I State But since he has come down with the disease he Is milling to t acknowledge that it is smallpov and I hear his is a severe case Ten members I mem-bers of the troupe were taken down leaving only three or four unscathed I and then there were the boy and girl taken who were on the stage and in the I orchestra pit at the performance These I with one case jut In the country makeup make-up the total for our localityand It is enough But I think the danger is i now past and there will be no more trouble trou-ble CO a President Isaac E Blake of the Northwest road Is a guest at the Kenyon en route west from a north i cm business trip He remarked yesterday I yester-day The Intelmountain country is doing very well its population is increasing in-creasing and the outlook for the comIng com-Ing year Is highly encouraging Colo ratio especially has occasion lo feel jubilant with Its output for the past year of 33000000 in gold alone and I 5570000CO for the precious metals altogether I gether This breaks the record and makes the people of that State feel buoyant over the prospects of the current cur-rent year Mr Blake met with a misfortune In I August in the death of his wife and it has boon only recently that he has been able to give his entire attention lo his railroad business Consequently matters mat-ters have boon at a standstill But now that he can give his undivided attention at-tention to business matters he intimates inti-mates that operations will bo resumed iit as early a date as posslble 0 u The price of sealskin garments will i go up bO to 7o per cent the coming year said H N Harvey of St Paul at the Cullen yesterday This Is due to theincreasing scarcity of seals and If 1 they are not protected by law the valuable animal wIll become extinct like the buffalo and other muchhunted wild animals There were 1COOO seals killed last year as against 32000 the year before and how many will be harvested this year I can only I be conjectured con-jectured There arc no more buffalo skins on the market t and if a man wants one he must hunt him I up some old buffalo robe and utilize that It is i noted that the value of furs increases in-creases the further north they are gathered Thus In the matter of coonskins coon-skins overcoats from Southern State skins wholesale at 30 from the Northern North-ern Slates at 35 to 10 and from skins gathered in the British possessions and Alaska at SiO lo 75 The silver fox Is so rare hat it Is practically extinct for commercial i I purposes Beaver makes line fur fur an overcoat but the otter Is better The Payetle country is great for raising vegetables and melons said N A Jacobson at the Kenyon last night We are able to raise cantaloupes canta-loupes and watermelons fully the equal or those of the famous Rocky Ford Colo and compete successfully with thorn In the Butte market Payclle melons reach the Montana markets a day in advance of the Colorado products pro-ducts and being their equal in all respects re-spects the Idaho stuff has the call And then there is no country that can beat us in cabbages Vhy the Payettc valley cabbage Is too large to go into a barrel and T am not giving you any fairy story cither We can also raise squashes and pumpkins equal to anything any-thing the astern States can furnish and In the item of vegetables no other section can touch us Yes sir Idaho Is becoming a great State Mr Jacobson Is much gratified over the fact that Mrs Jacobson whom he brought down for hospital treatment has successfully passed the crisis and Is convalescent n b S Proportions count for a good deal In large buildings remarked Jabez Norman Nor-man of Denver last night at the Knuta ford I used to wonder what there was lacking about the Colorado Suite Capitol as I walked up Sixteenth street until an architect called my attention to the disproportion between the dome and the remainder of the structure Ho claimed that to be proportionally correct cor-rect a dome should iual the width of the building and tho dome of the Colorado Colo-rado Capitol Is hardly moro than one quarter of the width of the superstructure superstruc-ture Then I realized why It was that tho Capitol at Washington always so profoundly l Impressed me with Its grandeur It was because the diameter was architecturally and artistically In proportion with the remainder of the great structure Mr Norman Is In attendance on the United States court |