Show TALKS WITH TRAVELERS I am willing to bet a new suit of clothes that In two years Colorado will bo Republican said H M Miller of Denver at the Knutsford yesterday We would have done better this election elec-tion but for J50 many people going wild on the subject of fusion Denver IK remarkably prosperous although there Is no boom on and there Is a great deal of building General business Is good I have Just been 1 through the Northwestern States and Montana where prosperity reigns especially espe-cially In Montana Money is plentiful throughout that State and everybody HPPTOH happy even If l Bryan was beaten Bulte Is In high feather and Helena I people are busy There Is much to be thankful for in the Northwest Mr Miller was formerly In business I lif this city being associated with ex CouncIlman M B Sowles under the I firm name of Sovles < fc Miller but for ome years has resided In Denver where he Is doing well The late Mrs Miller was mother of MI s Jennie Haw I I leythe ellknovn Salt Lake singer Mr Miller met many CIlenlls yesterday I who were glad to see him l I Ih t J J Thomas returned yesterday from a brief California trip I saw no snow on the desert he said but off In the mountains there appeared to boa 1 bo-a great dealof It However It had been I raining and water was standing allover all-over the ground The soil had evident 1 y received a good soaking I found San Francisco a lively town I during the short time I was there the increasing trade with the Orient seems to have worked marvels along tho coast I All of the wool clip around Soda 1 J Springs appears to have been disposed of either by outright sale or by ron slgnpicni said Dr W E Hocvat the I Cullen yesterday Ours Is a summer range country where the herds did well last summer and they are now sampling the winter feud on the deserts I west of Pocatello There Is but little scab In Idaho sheep while among the flocks over in Ulnta county Wyo I thero Is a good deal of It Owners would do well over there to pay more attention to their sheep There is n tendency now toward establishment of permanent sheep ranches as the coun try becomes settled up and lands are being fenced in for them TJic soda water plant did a good business the past season but in the Inter time Is not so busy Denver people are developing the new local sulphur sul-phUr beds considerably and much sulphur sul-phur is being shipped out The crude chemical la loaded into ore cars and uin into a retort or air tight apartment apart-ment where dry steam is turned on 1 I iho heat reduces the sulphur to a fluid which thus ficcs itself from the rock I that Is mixed with It and collects In a solid mass This Is then ground or otherwIse treated as may be desired The school authorities at the B Y academy at Provo wont let us play football as they regard It as a species of barbarism said W E duff of Prove yesterday at the Kenyon But ve are In hopes that this antagonism to the game will be modilled before long so that we can play the University and Salt Lake high school Just at present I I am endeavoring to organize the nth lellc Interests of the educational instl luilons of the State regardless of sec I larian lines and believe I will sue ceed I think it would be a I good thing to have all the schools net in unison and along agreed upon lines of devel opment both In light and heavy gym nastics and In out of door games Reg ular leagues and schedules for athletic contests and exhibitions could be then established and made both popular and profitable in i many ways Government LiveStock Inspector George S Hiclcox Is at the Cullen He said yesterday My territory covers the country west of the Mississippi and duJrifT the fall I have Inspected 2800 000 sheep The Utah herds are Included In this of course and I can take pleas uro in saying that I found the Utah sheep remarkably free from scab As to the Increase of sheep In this State I can best answer that question bv quoting President Jesse M Smith of I the Utah association who told nve that the shipments out about equal the in crease I fInd generally in my territory that the industry Is on the Increase and there Is a steady tendency to Im prove breeds and the quality of tho wools In places where I have forbid den shipment out of the State because of scab I found owners at once took plains to cleanse their sheep and much trouble has been avoided thereby |