Show TALKS WITH TRAVELERS Wo have had an unprocedentedly open winter said James Sutton of Austin Aus-tin Nov at the Cullen yesterday Our stockmen have kept their sheep and cattle out on the range all winter and I dont know of any feeding having been done True the ranges have been cropped down by the extra feeding and the drought has not helped any but the recent heavy precipitation 1ms freshened fresh-ened up the range grasses and furnished fur-nished us water for part of the summer sum-mer at least There are no new prospects or mining mi-ning developments In our part of No vuda But tho promise of a new railroad rail-road Is likely to stir up things for the new line of the Southern Pacific will run through Austin a S Said Isaac CummlngH of Hcbcr at lie White house yesterday to a Tribune representative You arenot the firs pcrxon who hds taken me for L A Johnson of Vernal but I am not John1 son Just tIme same Mr Cummings was assured that If ho and Mr Johnson John-son were stood up side by side they would have to be labeled In order to be distinguished apart Mr Cummlpgs Is known usa cattlo king and In reference to the condition of stock In his country said The man who fed stock this past season loot inonoy and the man who made It wan the ono who left his stock out on the range all winter Sheep and cattle are In fine shape to begin the season Guess we will got lo cents for our wool though 16 would be acceptable Tha recent storms have left the mountains full of wet snow which Is slowly meltIng melt-Ing and sinking Into the soil so that I our water supply will be pretty fair this summer Farmers have begun their spring work and the general outlook Is very promising There are fine opportunities for development de-velopment of waterpower along the j 1 Wood river al JIulloy remarked MaJ Cavanaugh yesterday at the Knuts I ford The vlver Is often a raging torrent tor-rent capable of furnishing great power and If the master of u waterpower dam and electric plant proves after Investigation In-vestigation to be what It ferns now a profitable Investment the scheme will be carried through But It Is always well to thoroughly understand what you are going to do and what are the conditions surrounding surround-ing an enterprise before going ahead I and spending money especially in ditches and dams Other forms of property may be removed transferred elsewhere In case of unprofitable investment t In-vestment but you cant lug ditches I and dams around When once they arc built they are there to slay unless washed out The general mining Interests In the Wood river country district are very promising and a great deal of mineral will be taken out of the country In the near future The Major expects to make Salt Lake his headquarters this summer and will be out and In quite often He was Secretary of Slate of Kansas three terms and served a term aa Surveyor General of Washington and latterly division quartermaster In the Seventh army corps U S V under MajGen Lee during the little game of chess wljli Spain p 5 People do not realize the inroads being be-ing made Into our forests until they take a look for themselves remarked H J Roberts of Madison WIsi at the Walker yesterday 1 have Just hccn through the Northwest and noticed the same thing as In the northern Wisconsin Wiscon-sin forests that the woodman and his ax are getting away with the timber at a pretty good rat But then there are Immense tracts left so that It will be many years before the timber la all cut off In northern Wisconsin and Minnesota Minneso-ta where the trees are cut off the sheep arc turned In and they oat up all the underbrush and undergrowth around the stumps The stumps speedily rot and the land Is cleared up and got under cultivation This sort of range is a great thing for sheep The millers up In Washington State are strictly up to snuff and business They have agents traveling through the principal Asiatic seaports working up trade and immense quantities OC Wnshlngton flour will be shipped over the Pacific for foreign consumption It Is a beautiful country especially western west-ern Washington where lie temperature tempera-ture is pretty much the same the year round and where you wear the same clothes winter and summer Q S S Trinidad Is located In a good place to catch storms and they do catch It there every once in a while said Charles Wiley at the White house yes terduy I think Senator Barelas estimate esti-mate of 20000 sheep lost by the last storm Is not overdrawn Stock In that country is kept largely over the Territorial Terri-torial line which Is twelve miles to the south and In the Raton ranges where they are liable to catch It when extra weather comes along Time Colorado Southern has cutoff cut-off for four days this last week south of Trinidad It crosses the range at Emory gal between Colfax and lolsom where the wind has full sweep and loads up the cuts with snow as fast as It can be shoveled or thrown out But while the storm wus remarkably severe was nd vere no damage to vegetation iced Trinidad Is too far soulh and then the season was not as far advanced ad-vanced there us here And by the way speaking of Raton peoplegenerally pronounce that namo as If spelled Rattoon It Is i a Spanish word and should be pronounced Rah tohn p t The late rains and snowstorms have not done us much good stated Master Mechanic English of Helper last night nt the Kenyan We have had only a little drizzle that hardly dampened the giOUilh Travel and freight arc very heavy both ways over the road keeping our truntablo busy with engines running out and in The Western Is getting more and more business and when tno Frisco gets connected up with the Colorado Southern traffic will bo heavier than ever |