Show TALKS WITH TRAVELERS I The reason why western Colorado I cattlemen arc so opposed to the entry 4I iC hem from Utah easl of the State line IS I that It oiuz band In allowed entrance I en-trance it will foe next id an impoxslbii l j lly lo keep out the Inurionuo herds sure I 10 follow with the result lint tho ranges in Rio Blanco airfield and Mesa counties especially will be eaten Up hi whoi order und by herds belong hug In another tStuto said W 11 Moore of Monlrose Colo ill the tullon yes lerduy There IB no trouble where local lo-cal growers buy sheep and turn them loose on their own ranges but outsiders l must keep hands off und am herds out The year past has been an excellent I one for stockmen In Montiosc county and the coming year promises to be piospeious bcauso there Is now over I A foot of snow In the valleys and six feet In the mountains which means I plenty of water In the spring with good lange feed and abundant crops We hal found out that dehorning attIc dots not pay on the range It may do woll enough on tin farm where calllc get to hooking each other and threalen u > loss UK milkmaids over their heads f when r > lIng out oC sorts But there 1 Is no Just reason for dehorning on the I range and the amputation sets the cat j I tie back from thirty to sixty days in fish which hurls Lhcm for the market I TIme growth In our part of the State Is not rapid but steady and sure There Is I talk oC tunneling under Ked moun I lain between Ouray and Tcllurlde thus I I saving a wearisome stage ride and I mnkjng quick and sure connections by 1 rail between the two points and Im I I portant mining centers north and south a o I notice The Tribune put out a fine New Years edition with a mass of wclldlge ted statIstics that will prove very valuable for reference said E I Mosely of Kansas City at the Kenyon yesterday The Denver Pueblo and l LoadvIIle papers did the same thing with especial reference to their State But I notice that east of the Missouri I river these great New Years editions a honored more In the breach than In i I the observance I believe the Chicago Tribune time Cleveland Plain Dealer and a fmv other Journals of pretontlons In ine East publish large editions but the great bulk oC Eastern papers keep out of the annual statlsllcs business and spread themselves on special edl l I lions for Easter and Christmas These 1 I editions are often wOIks of line art In volvlng the expenditure of a good deal of money In the way of costly designs I and printing in colors They are becoming becom-ing more and more fashionable every I year and as art educators they arc a prime success to say nothing of ac qualntlng a perhaps nonBible reading public with the historical facts of the NativIty and of the Resurrection Western papers are too much taken with the treatment of natural resources to enter such a field at present a There are great possibilities In the field of electrical engineering wllh sllll greater In Immediate view remarked I Manager E P Bacon of the Logan Light and Power company at the Ken yon yesterday and there Is no telling from present observations what the future will bring forth In this line Electrical I power and motor appliances are attracting continually Increasing attention as witness the remarkable growth of electric railways down East A move Is now on foot to parallel the Boston Albany road between Boston Bos-ton and Worcester fortylive miles with an electric railway operated with regular trains running at the rate of thirty and forty miles an hour and the New York New Hampshire Hudson River railroad between New York and Now Haven seventyfour miles Is Tam T-am Informed paralleled by tiolley lines Why there are live long electric lines centered at South Framlngham alone while the lines centering at Boston are apparently numberless But while there Is BO much doing In the East I prefer the West as really the more promising Held where the opportunities are so attractive at-tractive We havo a good plant at Logan Lo-gan of 100horse power which lights the city and furnishes power for mo lors as may be desired Some day we shall have a street car service to operate op-erate as you havo In Salt Luke Realizing Real-izing on a few valuable mining prospects pros-pects In the vicinity of Cache valley Would prove immensely valuable lo Logan Lo-gan and act as a great Incentive to branch out and develop V S The smallpox Is having a merry time oC It in Butte remarked Super Intcmlent M D 1 Sluckpole of time Chloride Point mine at Mercur lasl nlht at the Kenyon lOT have just coma from that part of the country and tho numb I of new cases reported dally were from six to ten People there have not appeared to think much of it have been wearing an Indifferent aIlln fact us the cases are nearly all mild with but two deaths so far and most of the skIt able to be about within with-in the limits of their quarantines However How-ever there Is beginning to be a feeling that it would be just as well to put a stop to the llesta and more restrictive methods will be resorted to than heretofore here-tofore toforeWhile it Is true that business is booming in Butte there are Idle men there for the reason that wages are so high In Butte that men from all overtIme I over-tIme country are rushing In to get work and the local labor market Is becoming overstocked a J T OConnor a former Democratic member of the New York Legislature It I at the Cullen from Elmlra with his daughter en route east after a trip to the coast In conversation last night Mr OConnor remarked f stopped overto visit i with my old friends A G Cumpbll and Matt Cullen and see your aUraellve city We are much pleased with our trip through timer time-r sL whero there fo so much to admire ad-mire Yes 1 am a Democrat and voted for Bryan at the lust Presidential election elec-tion and expect to vote for him again But at time same time 1 am ardent admirer ad-mirer of our Governor Col Roosevelt who sat with me when I was In the Legislature and the fact that he Is a Republican does not change him In my estimation In the least General business conditions throughout through-out the State of New York are of the very best It Is truly a great era of prosperity with New York as well as It Is with so much of the remainder of time country How is David B Hill did you ask Well David is now living In Albany he docs not live at Elmlra any more and In fact has practically retired from politics |