Show TALKS WITH TRAVELERS A N Spencer a prominent Union Pacific Pa-cific contractor Is at the Kenyon from Kansas City with his family on n pleasure trip and to secure a respite from the itherlng heat of Kansas I City He said yesterday The Union Pacific Is not decreasing Its mileage inV in-V omlns so much as It Is cutting down the grades and reducing the curves thus doing away with the hill climbs which necessitate helper engines The reduction In operating expenses will beery be-ery material In consequence of the reconstruction re-construction The changes and Improvements ought to be all completed by January 1st Including the 1500foot tunnel I through Sherman hill The approaches to this tunnel are half a mile at one end and 1000 feet at the other Grades along the line have been reduced to less than 1 per cent and while in places the new line Is longer than the old there Is a net saving of time The new roadbed road-bed is twenty feet wide the width of a double track rind ll is the Intention of the railroad company to double track all of its road In time A long stretch west of Omaha is already dou bletracked Mr Spencer has two construction outfits a work comprising 210 men between be-tween Sherman and Rawllns He says the Burlington Is really doing nothing west of the river but Is actively engaged en-gaged In doubletracking its Chicago Omaha line I c Bishop James Andrtis of St George Is a guest at the Cullen on a business trip to this city lie said yesterday AWc have had plenty of rain In Washington county The storm that visited the northern part of the State appears to havo followed the eastern moun talus and gone south veering to the west over Kane and Washington counties In fact we had such a downfall that some of our canals were washed out The precipitations have been the heaviest on the ranges where the feed Is now much Improved i the crops are all promising and the general local outlook Is very good Of course our county Is Democratic Politics there are like the laws of the Mcdes and the Persians there Is never any change and once Democratic always Democratic Demo-cratic holds good down there as much so as in the Southern States The bishop said he noticed that the counties between Washington and Utah had suffered severely with the drought t a a Doc Faust Is at the Cullen from Deep Creek where he has been laboring labor-Ing for some time He has as high an opinion of that country as ever andS and-S s It Is hound to come to the front some day He is giving more attention atten-tion to mining now than to cattle though once considered something of a high roller In bovine circles especially when he went to Denver as a delegate to the big livestock convention of 1SS5 and made a speech in the District courtroom In the Arapahoe county building that was printed at length In the Denver papers |