Show Heard in Hotel Corridors 1 Mr I. I Krueger of or Butte Mont 1 Is stopping stopping stopping stop stop- ping today at the Ken Kenyon on hotel In this city Mr 11 Is one ono of ot the best known and most prominent nt business men of the tho northern metropolis and Is an en enthusiastic en- en optimistic booster and believer r In the fu future ture of ot his homo home city Although engaged aged in the engineering and wholesale plumbing business he is much interested in Putte's primary Industry Industry mining Butte Buttels is not a mining camp campi grownup grown grownup up liko a mushroom overnight and sub sub- je t to the tire sudden vagaries of or fortune fortuna such as attend many of or the tho we western tem mini min ing towns he said this morning when asked as to what hal hind had be become of or his town since the closing of many of or the tho big arnel It was built up Ull b by degrees the same as any great city and It has come The smelters are arc mostly gone and so much tho the better for Cor tho the other Industries of or tho the town But the tire mining Industry Is Isas Isas Isas as stable as the tilling tilling- of ot the soil soli and this thili Is what will make c tho the future of or the city But Is not smelting a a. necessary ad adjunct adjunct at- at to the tue mining business was asked Not in the least was tho the answer Tho The coo g-coo good of or smelters Is IJ about offset b by tho the damage they do Take Tale your own wn city and valley vaney as an example You cannot have have- havea a beautiful green cn valloy with v. an on at atmosphere atmosphere at- at fit to and havo have your our smelters too And that th has been tho the trouble with Butto Butte She She- has lias sacrIficed beauty attraction and nd comfort to the smelter industry and this has had a tendency tendency ten ten- I dency deney to cause causo people to come to Butto Dutto merely merel for foi- the purpose of at making milking a a. stake and then go JO elsewhere to spend it This condition is I rapidly being eradicated with the introduction introduction- of new Industries and People aro are beginning to settle le in Butte for fol Buttes Butte's sake as 89 well as for mining mInim Tho The absence of or tho the smelters will wil not seriously hamper mining ruining as railroad fa facilities facilities fa- fa a are aro good and the ore can be bo smelted In other places Mr Krueger thinks that Ut tir population of ot tho the Montana Mon Men Lana tana town is close dose to th the hundred thousand thousand thou thou- sand J mark ark and will Trill this In a short Um time 0 0 George Geor-e A. A and wife of or Quebec Que Que- bee bec c Canada a are c stopping In Salt Lake City for several eral days on their thel way to the Hawaiian islands to mak make their home Mr II Hempstead Hompstead Is a sugar magnate and Is Interested in several of the large sUGar augar- cano plantations In the Islands He was formerly formerly-a a high official of or the Canadian police pollee system and In his youth was wag amounted a amounted amounted mounted police officer on ott the tho plains of ot tho Canadian far west 0 0 I. I A A. A of the City of or f Mexico Is in town on ou business connected with one of tho the largo American Jand and Irrigation irr- irr gation gatbon companies of or tho the tropical semi country to the south The company which he represents has secured over acres of or land from the Mexican government govern n ment and by means of or a a. La large rge ge canal Is turning tho the land Into a great t et agricultural tract for the raising of tropical fruits fruit This Tins land Is 18 situated In the mountains to the west veat of the City of or Mexico and was considered practically worthless by the tire Mexicans before tho the enterprising Ameri Amen American can capitalists came in and aDd took tool It |