Salt Lake Tribune | 1906-07-31 | Page 12 | Poet of the Sierras is Salt Lake Visitor

POET OF THE SIERRAS IS SALUAKE VISITOR Joaquin Miller Spends Few Hours Pleasantly in the City. Joaquin Miller, "Poet of tho Sierras," Sier-ras," was a Salt Lake visitor for a lew hours betwoon trains Monday, lie ia traveling from his home, noar Ualclana, Cal., to the East, and concluded to como down to sec Salt Lako, as he had not slopped hero siuco 1371. He stated that ho had a slight grudge toward tho public and that ho proposed to oven the score by publishing another book of poems. The primary object of his present trip is to arrange in the Unst for its publication, which ho expects ex-pects to havo complete! in time lor tho lato fall market. II". will also visit with a daughter at Pittsburg and another an-other daughter who is in school at Syracuse Syra-cuse A Quaint Charactor. 31is trip as planned, if it can bo car-rlod car-rlod out, will be to go from Kansas City to St. Louis by boat, thence down tho Mississippi to Cairo and up tho Ohio river to Pittsburg. The aged man is a quaint character nnd still clings to the" garb of scout, with tho exception that he wears a Prince Albert coat. Tho pccnliar features fea-tures of his attire arc high boots, reaching reach-ing almost to the hips, a wide-brimmed hat, a soft shirt and red tie. He also wears a full and long llowing beard. Thinks World Is Getting Bettor. Ho has a mild blue eye, a pleasant expression and a gentle voice. When talking he looks nt tho person addressed directly in tho eye. He ia of the opinion opin-ion that tho world is getting better as it grows older. Ho believes that each person should produce in somo way more than the equivalent of what ho consumes, and in that way tho woalth of the world would continually increase. in-crease. The poet livos on n ranch near Oakland, Oak-land, where there is an ubundance of trees, flowers and birds. Ho says that tho land is so steep that it will not hold a mortgage. nis forthcoming book, ho says, will deal largely witli the old story of love, and from it he makes numerous quotations.