Show TALKS WITH TRAVELERS Mercuris I a god camp for church attendance sai J Prof Edwards at the Kenyon yesterday for there Is an I exceptionally Intelligent class ofpeo ple there and the college graduate Js a decided factor in the community While the local Methodist church of l which I am the pastor has not as yet an established membership owing to I the newness of the work there is 1 every hope and promise of a large larG I membership In the near future Our I church luis a thousand people to draw I I from and our congregations are always al-ways large Thcru was n time when 3 I for a Sunday contribution was con i sldcnd quite large but the offerings now run up to 18 and sometimes to 25 I The church edifice is all paid for and wo have no debt I We hold Sunca school in the morn Ing with preaching service In the even ing and I consider the camp one of the best in the rountry for evangelical I effort The Baptists have given up that field so the Methodists have full and sole swine In the Protestant domain do-main The Roman Catholics have a I church organization there so have the Mormons The consolidation of the Mercur and i Golden Gate mining interests Is provIng I prov-ing a good thing for the stability of I the town and the abolition of the I boardinghouse system will result Jn more married men and families who do not shift around from place to place 1 This is of Itself a help to the churches Proto Edwards leaves today on a lecturing trip to Colorado before resuming re-suming his church work at Mercur i a o a I have been looking over your real estate market said J H Cool of Minnesota I Min-nesota at the Walker house yesterday I and find that money can be Jufl 1 clously invested here only local conditions l condi-tions have to bo considered There Is Becks Hot Springs I estimate that to put a new roof on the burned property and rehabilitate the place Including In-cluding drainage would cost about 25000 But the resort would then be I put In admirable shape However It must be thoroughly drained In fact this will be absolutely necessary 1 I notice a great many strangers in i the city and therA Is no reason why I I they should not carry off the best Impressions I Im-pressions as to the desirability of I locating or Investing here I am going I to Portland 1rom Salt Lake but I shall I remember this place with the kindliest I of feelings I S S S J Jack Edwards and C r Cartwright prominent sheepgrowers of Trook county Or are registered at the Knutsford having come r > this city on j I I a business trip Yes we have 0 pretty pret-ty fairsized herd replied Mr Cart wright to questions yesterday about 50000 head of sheep including the Cotswold Cots-wold Merino RamboulUet and oilier I breeds Mr Bennett Is about right in claiming that the Rambouillet Is the typical American brand of sheep and I It has both very good carcass and very good wool The Impression that the State may be overstocked is hardly correct because there were heavy shipments ship-ments out of the State to Wyoming I and Montana this season that precluded pre-cluded any overcrowding In Oregon I do not see why American wools cannot be bred up to the fineness of the Australian standard in fact It is well on the way to that now The better the care climate and feed the better will be mutton and wool and over in Otegon where we do not have the I droughts to contend with that you do here these conditions are the more easily approximated to the ideal We have the advantage over the Ohio and other Eastern growers in that we are not troubled with flies and hot nights We look to see the ruling prices at 1PI and 15 cents this fall but there Is little or nothing doing now and we are not selling any wool Mr Cartwright has a very hopeful view of the wool future in the United States He smiled when asked how the wool men In Oregon were going to vote and promptly said The Republican Repub-lican ticket Woolgrowers do not forget for-get tho Democratic times when prices I ranged from G to Scents and Boston buyers refused to pay or guarantee the freight Oregon is a sure State for the Republican party M S S Not only the automobile but the locomobile will soon bo on the Salt Lake market said J A Richardson of Denver at the Kenyon yesterday The automobile is operated by electricity elec-tricity and makes no pretense to speed while the locomobile of which style cf conveyance there are already two in the city in possession of private parties par-ties is operated by gasoline and steam and on Eastern tracks has scored a mile in 147 There Is a growing demand for the horseless carriage Why a carload and a half of the locomobiles or sixteen machines have been sold in Denver three of them going to Pueblo and one to Colorado Springs Is there any danger of their running run-ning away was asked The only danger In this way was I the reply is from some Irresponslhle persons fooling with the operating apparatus j ap-paratus I know of one instance where I a deafanddumb man stopped on time I sidewalk to climb Into a locomobile and I pushed the throttle over The machine ma-chine immediately shot across the street smashed bite a buggy standing there and threw the deafanddumb man Into a storeway head first Salt Lake will scce more of the horseless carriage from now on o S S D W Ross Idaho State Engineer was In town yesterday morning and registered at the Kenyon ona short business trip returning north later In the day He says that while there Is a shrinkage of water In many parts of the State the Snake does not show signs of diminution and that irrigation Irriga-tion is being extensively developed as fast as the State Js being settled up The Immigration this year has been very heavy |