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Show WILLIAM ilSIii SEWS FROM EAST Milford Man Astonished at Indications In-dications of Prosperity , Everywhere. William Armstrong of Milford arrived ar-rived in Salt Lako Saturday after a two months' visit in the East as far as New York city. Mr. Armstrong went oi st via Minneapolis, at which place lie attended tho annual encampment encamp-ment of tho National G. A. It., of which ho is a member and one of tho very few who represented Utah on luat. occasion. During tho four days which the meeting meet-ing lasted, he says, ho got mighty tired "Marching through Georgia, ' as played on every occasion and between be-tween times by 131 bauds. Mr. Armstrong says the . idea that tho veterans of tho war of '01- '(io aro a lot of decrepit old fellows-, ripo candidates can-didates for an exodus from this oarth by tho chloroform route, as suggested by tho Dr, Ostler theory, is a" mistake. mis-take. Out of tho 10,000 veterans in line of March a mighty army of for-midablo for-midablo soldiers could havo been recruited; re-cruited; men physically ablo to enter anv branch of active service. Slopping for a few days at Duluth, Mr. Armstrong visited tho great iron mines in Misuba range, which furnish an output of iron ore of over 27,000,000 tons annually, which is transported from Dulu(hdown tho lakes to Cleveland, Cleve-land, Buffalo and other eastern points. The freight lako business is immense, and increasing yearly. i.t Duluth, Mr. Armstrong says, a 10,000-lon boat is loaded in an 'hour. A train load of fifty cars, each car carrying fifty tons, arrives every twenty minutes from tho mines. This will givo some idea of the tremendous proportions of the iron industry of this country, and this is only one of th'o manj- iron shipping points on Lako Superior. |