Show TALKS WITH TRAVELERS l Eastern people only knew what scenic glories existed In the Rocky mountain country they would not be hurrying over to Euiope as they havo In years past said Rev Father W J Birmingham of Wilmington Del at the Kenyan yesterday This Is my first trip into the far West and the more 1 HOC of it the more am I delighted I I de-lighted and the more pleased I am to realize that I am an American citizen I have been tQ Italy and have had a I good view of the Alps and Swiss scenery I scen-ery but the Alpine scenery does not compare In grandeur with such scenery I ns I saw between Colorado Springs and Glenwood Father Birmingham Is accompanied by Rev Father E J Menlcy of the same city They are en route to San I Francisco and Los Angeles on a vacation vaca-tion trip intending to return home by the southern route and be back In II Wilmington by Christmas Both visitors visi-tors called on Bishop Scanlan Ohio will send a goodsized delegation I delega-tion to the National Livestock convention r con-vention In Salt Lake said J H Kirk Patrick last evening at the Culien I Our local associations meet the first week In tho year and they will choose delegates to the Salt Lake meeting Wo are much Interested in woolgrow I ing In Ohio so much so In fact that our State wool stands at thc top notch of the American wool product We pasture pas-ture feed and house our sheep arid the quality of the wool amply repays us for the trouble The fiber IB IonS silky and even making It especially V valuable I our stockmen weremore united remarked G II Burkhalter of Opal Wyo at the Konyon yesterday It would be better for our Interests all round There was a foot of snow In western Wyoming from the last storm but It was n wet snow and sank Into the ground Ordinarily the ranges I would have been freshened but there has been a great overcrowding of sheep so that the ranges have been badly eaten down I Our wool clip of last season remains largely l in the hands of the growers and is stored up until better prices than have been obtaining can he realized I real-ized Our sheep are In good condition and ought to winter favorably So far It < dbes not look as though the winter would be very severe The railroad company Is making improvements along the line from Grangtr and general gen-eral business Is good Senator Warren will bo reelected to the United States I Senate without difficulty a e a Three or four years of freedom from the hard times of the Cleveland Admin Lmes istration has made Illinois pretty solidly sol-idly Republican said T W Gatlss of Earlvlllc I yesterday at the Walker Our corn crops have been good and this year it was excellent But there arc not as many feeders this fall as usual I suppose because Nebraska Kansas and Missouri have gone so ex tenslii ely Into the business and It costs less to send Western cattle there All of our tock Is In excellent shape and tho fall has been so open that the cattle cat-tle were stll feeding In the pastures when we came away There are no moro kicks about the great drainage canal from Chicago I which runs not far from our section and I have never heard of any sickness u om that source The St Louis papers have quieted down since no bad effects on tho public health have been noticed John II White has returned from a I tour of tho southern part of Cache county where he and others with whom he Is Interested have many acres of land under cultivation to say nothing noth-ing of a small forest primeval There has been more winter wheat put In Cache valley this year ho said yesterday yes-terday than In any two previous yc irs and this of course has been due to the open weather nnd copious I rains The hay crop In Cache wan never more abundant and while It ell away behind In other counties I do not believe we will find It necessary to go outside of thc State for our supplies The fall rains followed by warm weather have caused grass to grow almost al-most everywhere and many 1 sheep man who was studying how to solve the problem of feeding his sheep throughout the entire winter months as at one time It looked as though he would have to do and make some money at the same time has had the I problem solved for him by old Mother Nature herself I never saw lIner winter I win-ter ranges than there are now throughout through-out the State and my advices from other States near at hand are of a similar sim-ilar nature The outlook Was gloomy a couple of months ago but It was never as roseate for aheephcrders as It Is now Cattle are also doing well A a o I feel confident that we will have a sugar factory In Sanpete county before long said Mayor Ezra Shoemaker of Mantl last night at the White house The Lohl people are backing the proposition prop-osition and this will bring a fair acreage acre-age of our county under sugarboot cultivation cul-tivation The farmers of Utah county Imvc made money from the sugar beet and we of Sanpele think we can do tho same JMantf Is I shortly to have an electric light system The Crawford Bros L T Tuttle and other prominent business talent are backing the scheme and tho town will have both incandescent and arc lights Then in three weeks the telephone system will have reached lUiuitl placing UH In npcaklng communication commu-nication with the northern part OL the State and sCQrcs of points beyond You Sanpete t the banner Republican Republi-can county of the State and we realize the fact that but for Sanpete the results re-sults of the election in Utah would have been much different 60 J A Ervln the wellknown New York Insurance man Is at the Knutn ford from a Western business trip There arc marked evidences of prosperity pros-perity all through the Northwest States and California he said and In San Francisco and Portland things arc very lively There Is a good deal of Interest in Salt Lake especially In view of tho building Of the Los Angeles road California fornia has been excited over tho advent ad-vent of tho Grau Opera company and the Southern Pacific and Santa Fo roads are running special trains Into San Francisco to accommodate country coun-try people wishing to take In the show The new coast line of the Southern Pacific will be finished by the llrat of the year and then passengers between San Franclsqo and Los Angeles can sec the ocean for the greater part of the dlnlance Fares are comparatively light In California now the round trip between San Francisco and Los Angeles An-geles costing only 25 |