Show a snails pace ata at a snails pace Is a common ex pres pre slon salon and usually signifies a vera ver slow speed but what do you oso Is the actual pace made by a snail in traveling we can give it in accurate figures one foot in tour four minutes or at the hit rate of one mile in 16 days it if traveling continuously these are arc figures given by georg Zah nizer a civil engineer taken from ritual ct ual observation A abort time ago mr Zah nizer was waiting for a train at a country station ho he had nothing in particular to do and killed hilled a little time by a snail which was creeping along the ground that snail traveled just exactly one toot foot in tour four minutes mr amri has figured out that it would require 16 das for that ito move a mile the he editor and J L smith while on i recent trip to tho the capital ot of the cato everywhere wo we went wo we were cc elved in comradely manner and it 11 nattered mattered not the cent 4 lemon wore were engaged in III at the nimr we called on thorn them t they 1 ey Imedla teli laid aside their business busine sa in order tt ti receive us and hear what wo we had tt ti lay jay governor spry very kindly interrupted tod an important meeting of the state doard board of examiners to ro re elve us introducing i us s to the mem main jors era of his off official lelal family who wor war present at that time they treated is with as much ceremony as it if w vere foreign princes visiting utah for the die first time they arp very fini gentlemen and the right men in ali the ight place wo we visited tho the first presidency ol of the L D S churchard Chur chand were received in the same manner president jos JOB eph P F smith taking great interest ir what we had to tell him regarding millard county and the possibilities it A the future hero here although as over ine knows he Is in an extremely bus kanand in fact when we called was engaged in a very import int nature nevertheless N e vert heleas lie he was g glad to let his business wait and heat hear jurs aurs he and the gentlemen who were v ith him are gentlemen of the hari order I 1 we are greatly indebted to mr J H R manderfield tor for the success in oui ou work attained by us and without whose assistance the success attained could not have been accomplished mr and in fact the salt lake route as a whole has the interests of the entire county at heart at all times we should work hanh ln in hand with kith them more than we do at the present time more will be published of this trip in another issue of rho hie progress next week |