Show TALKS WITH TRAVELERS A K Stounenberg president of the I Idaho State National bank of SL Anthony An-thony cashier of the Commercial bank of Caldwoll and brother of the Governor Gov-ernor Is down on a business trip and registered at the Konyon He Is enthusiastic en-thusiastic over the inauguration of the Midland road and said of it yesterday Our Caldwell people are making a I good business move subscribing sufli dent to locale the lurmlnal of the Midland Mid-land at Cnldwcil Instead of allowing It to stop at Boise This assures us of direct connection with Butte whereas our present connectIon is away around by Pocatello about 700 miles The distance I dis-tance by the Midland I do not estimate at over 350 miles I Tho Governor Is ail right In his Idea of the Importance of this new enter prise1 Up to tho present It Is only the richest of the mining enterprises that I have paid for hauling the ore great distances to the railroad but with the new line cutting directly through tho I center of the Stale It will pay to uncover un-cover and mine untold amounts of ore bodies of not so high grade because or the shortened wagon huuI and tho richer mines will pay much larger dividends divi-dends Moreover there will be an enlarged I en-larged outlet for the agricultural and other produce of the country trIbutary to Caldwell and the value of our lands ant Incomes landowners will be increased In-creased < e Thero Is 0 custom long obtaining In the cigar factories in Florida and Cuba lhat is not without Its merits I although it may seem strange at llrst to Northern people remarked C J Costlllo of Tampa yesterday at the Kenyon In each cigar factory n reader Is hired to read to the men and women as they work each operalive being taxed so much They have not the time or cannot read the English papers SQ the reader In each shop takes his seat on a raised platform and translates Into Spanish from the latest New York and London papers but mostly New York for the Information of the clgarmakers When the papers have been read the latest novels mostly French are taken up and translated Into Spanish The most respectful silence Is maintained main-tained all through the readings and except the readers voice all that Is heard Is the subdued clicking of the knives as they cut the tobacco and the slight rustle of dresses in necessary neces-sary moving to and fro There Is a great deal of valuable Information to be picked up In this way and the factory fac-tory operatives become skilled listen ers after awhile The proprietors malta by this arrangement as there Is no gossiping to take operatives oft their work 1 think some of our Northern factories might with profit adopt this system t n There Is nothing to be gained by speaking disparagingly of or running down a competitors goods particularly where that competitor is known to be dealng In straight goods and honorable honor-able In his transactions with the trade remarked J P Murphy of St Louis yesterday at the Kcnyon A tow salesmen who come out here from the East two or three times a year have been In the habit of making alaiomonts to Utah merchants about the goods of their competitors which wore entirely I false and Intended to place the latter in a wrong light These tactics have succeeded In making ma-king It unpleasant for honorable salesmen sales-men who had to stop and explain the real animus backing the untrue allegations alle-gations But the explanations clear gntons explanatons up tho situation leave the perpetrators of the trick in an unenviable light and merchants are less likely to gIve ihexe fellows nuch of a hearing when they came round again I am prepared to believe that the Rock Island road will make something of a 4 move down through New Mexico and very likely Into old Mexico this year remarked Chief Engineer Smith of the Sierra Madre Pacific road yesterday Tho gap between Liberal Ian and White Oaks the terminal of the El Paso Northeastern road will not bo dIfficult to fill as there are no ranges to cross and the grades are light Then It is reported and current cur-rent bolleved that the Rock Island has secured control of the Northeast urn and the natural Inference Is that the purchase of the Sierra Madro road would be the next thing In order The hitler has been built only to Terassas In western Chihuahua and by l extending extend-ing the line over across the Bnbispe river Into Sonora there would be a tine chance to build over lo the coast and thence down through all of the seaport sea-port towns as far ns might be desired Thon the present line might be extended extend-ed south to Guerrero to connect with the Chihuahua Pacific road which has been purchased by the Stllwell in I I torcsts There Is sure to be interesting interest-Ing railroad developments in the Southwest this year In addition to the nowassured UtahCalifornia line lne M V I Manager George T Odcll of the Coop Co-op Wagon and Machine company re turned yesterday from his Chicago l business trip He fays ChlcDfo I emily in the building trades line is 1 thrown into confusion by the strikes by tho unions to compel the contractors to I recognize the unIons The hardware men particularly complain of the fall Irs ore In trade and axy that the fal I ders from the smaller duaera and stores In and aipqnd Chicago have al I most entirely i5iMi off H is oath of I mated that 30000 workmen are out of j I employment so that the aggregate I OBSOB in gesate IIOSiR wages each week arc very large How long can the men stand li t Is the problem Many union men out of work are going out to the small places not tar from Chicago and taking i Jobs to make both ends met encs Mr Odell was astonished at the Odl change for the better In Chicago river In fact the change from the turbid tur Cne change gldncss of prnvlouu days to the clean pea green color ot present was almost geen The too great a strain on his nerves weather was warm |