Show TALKS WITH TRAVELERS The fnil anmnd Sanlnquln Is not suitable for uparbeot raising sn there Is none rnhvd tliTc remarked S Peterson of that town yesterday at time the White house But for that there would be considerable of an acreage under cultivation ns it Is only fifteen mllo 10 Sprlngville where the sub I factory of thin Lehl lutUUuUon la lo I cated There is a good deal of Irrlga I Lion around Santaquln but It has been found impossible to maintain tin efll cient riervojr aysiom owing to the porous nature of time soil which lets 1 the water down through It about as fast as the water can be gathered Generally speaking the past year has been a very fair one In that section although time gain was nlpppd both by the frost and the drought But the lu ccin crop has proven excellent and there IK a great deal of that raised around Santanuin There is no trou blo feared from smallpox as Payson is 1 quarantined against and strangers coming into town arc carefully scrutinized scru-tinized S P a F 33 Wood and G M Sampson of Fort Dodge la are at the White I house en route through to the Pacific roast where they expect to locate Mr Wood remarked yesterday This Is l our first trip to Salt Lake and we are pleased with our sojourn here notwithstanding not-withstanding the unpropltious weather A good many Iowa people visit Utah and Salt Lake and on their return home have always hud a good word to say for this country Many of our schoolteachers school-teachers slopped over last summer on their way to the Los Angeles convention conven-tion and all weic glad of the chance to see the lake and bathe in 1 IL Iowa corn promised well last summer sum-mer but failed to realize In full what was expected of It A crop of fifty and sixty bushels was anticipated but owing ow-ing to an unfavorable turning out of tho season the average was not over forty the maximum and minimum being be-ing respectively fifty and thirty The extension of the main line of the Illinois Illi-nois Central through to Omaha means a good deal for Iowa and especially for Fort Dodge which Is now on the main line Instead of a branch S PIt < i P-It was all beautiful and clear In Park City this morning said G F Bucher of Coalvilie at the Cullen last night The train did not run into the fog until down In the canyon It was spread all over the valley like a great white snowy sea S A The Oregon Board of Horticulture recently passed through our part of the country said N A Jacobson of Payette Ida at the Kenyon last night and after looking It over declared it was capable of raising enough fruit to supply time United States The soil is sandy and there Is a liberal supply of water for irrigation which with the favorable climate give the Payette country special fruitraising properties I am a fruitgrower with sixty acres I f of line fruit under cultivation there I most of it In prunes Wo do not dry them like the Turkish prunes because be-cause the market price is so high for Idaho fruit that it would not pay Why I can get115 per box for my prunes in New York and not a very large box either Then that part of the State has been shown to be capable of raising as fine an article of apple as Michigan or Nuw York and a great deal will be done in that1 line later on In the mountain moun-tain Stale But what is destined to be a remarkable re-markable factor In pushing the fortunes of the Payette country is the coming electric scheme which is to be realized this spring at Black canyon thirtylive miles from Payette on the river and which is promoted by l Boston capital At the point mentioned the river Is 12f feet wide with a heavy volume of water rushing through Here a dam is to be built which will raise the water I think about 100 feel and sot it back six miles Wjilh the Immense power thus secured turbines and generators are to bo set up there Wilicim will furnish fur-nish electric light and power to Boise Nam pu Caldwell Payette and other places and operate a trolley standard line from Payetto and thence up into the timber Time cars Alll be regular railroad cars so they can be sent over the Short Line to any point Moreover More-over big pumping engines arc to be operated by wire thirtylive miles down the Stream to send up a great volume of Irrigating waters over the flat lands above which will thus be made fertile fer-tile and valuable I have lived In Idaho for twenty five years and the longer 1 am in the State the more am I convinced of the vastness of Its possibilities Mr Jacobson has brought his wife down to the Sisters hospital for treatment There Is an Immense volume of coal traffic over the Short Line from Kern merer to Montana points said A M Gibson of ladho Falls at the Konyon last night and the tralllc over the new branch line to St Anthony Is already al-ready by no means Inconsiderable People who heretofore had to rely upon up-on the stage or their private conveyances convey-ances to reach the Falls or St Anthony An-thony now ride In the cars and it is such an improvement over the old fashioned methods that many are riding rid-ing just for the enjoyment of it Idaho Falls Is the center of communication com-munication for a large stock and agricultural agri-cultural district and considering the blighting effect of the late frost on the grain crop the season has been pretty good The frostbitten wheat Is now being fed out to stock so that it can be used up without difficulty There are large herdsof sheep and cattle being be-ing fed winters at this point principally with lucern althought ns in other points Jt may be found profitable fo ship in corn from time MIssouri valley States P < TThe three new Icehouses of the Union Pacific will hold 1GOOO tons of Ice said C C Norwood of Evanston last night at the Walker house There has been considerable building of many kinds during the past year and the coming twelve months promises to be notable In thnt line The weather has been very cold in Ilintah county 35 below zero it has been this winter but at present the mercury registers about zero I was surprised to find so much snow in Salt Luke and the walking here Is much more precarious than in Evanston where you walk on solid snow We struck the fog about Kaysville coming south from Ogden People up our way are looking for the Burlington to come through Evanston Evans-ton on Its march westward turning southwest from there to Salt Lake But when this tobehopedfor consummation consum-mation will be consummated deponent knowcth not |