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Show COL E. F. HOLMES RETURNS. Had an- Interesting- Trip and Good "Weather. Col. Edwin F. Holmes, president of tho Commercial club, returned from the East yesterday, ncconipanlcd by his daughter, Miss Harriot Holmes, who has? been taking tak-ing a post-graduate course at the Chicago university. Col. Holmes, when seen at his homo last evening, atated that he had little of interest to communicate, but his trip, which took him as far as Detroit, hod been very pleasant, and he had the good fortune to miss all of the hot waves and at the same time be In different places for Interesting events. He was In Chicago Chi-cago for the Derby, also the Republican convention, and managed to get to his former homo in tlmo for the Michigan Slate Republican convention. He was for some tlmi ai St. Louis, and took quite an interest in the Utah exhibit, which, he says, is highly creditable to this State, On the outlook throughout the section he traversed. Col. Holmis reports conditions condi-tions far from bright. The corn Is seemingly seem-ingly backward, and tho hign water ln the Missouri and Kaw Is causing thousands thou-sands of dollar." in damage. The Hood situation around Kansas City is very alarming, and It will be at least a week before tho railroads can recover from th results. Both rivers are away out of their channels, and in places the trains run for miles through water which has reached almost to the heads of the wheat In tho fields. And, apropos of storms. Col. Holmes says he noted the news of the cloudburst, In this city and that, in his opinion, shows the Inadvlsablllty of ever attempting to build reservoirs in tho local canyons, as such a cloudburst would break a very strong dum, and the reservoirs would be a continued menace to the inhabitants of the citv. "Some experts in this line," said Col. Holmes, "will find a way to tunnel Into the hills whereby the water can be reached and withheld underground. There 13 a vast water supply ln the mountains which as yet has not been reached, but sooner or later a way will bo found to control those sources of supply, which I would settle the question of water for this valley." |
