Show e UnOZIP OX HIS TRAVEL In the Sagebrush StateHow the Elko CJirlK Dance DameAnturefi Chicken Soup A Bad Tlan nI the rSofel j Leaving Ogden Saturday evening the 1 22 inst your correspondent started for a I trip into this State via the C P After traveling all night the train arrives at Carlin at 9 a in This place is the end of the Salt Lake division and here the railroad shops have recently been moved from Terrace Notwithstanding the removal re-moval of the shops Carlin is very dull there is next to nothing in the town to keep it alive as the adjoining vicinity is wmiorr Mixixrt on KAKCIIIXO vnvvr Gas Andhough there are but few people in the place it is a puzzle for an observer to discover how that few manage to eke out an existence Just now the people are anxiously awaiting the arrival of the bimonthly 1 bi-monthly paycar whichis expected about i I the first of next month But as there are only about thirty men employed at the shops and Carlin is on the wrong end of J the division for the train hands to lay oft very long the town is benefited but slightly by the above mentioned change of the shops to the place 4 Through the courtesy of Conductor I Cassin the DEMOCRAT representative was introduced to several very pleasant gentlemen I gen-tlemen of the place 1 Win Taylor Jr a jolly fellow and a wellread gentleman gentle-man > did what he could to make our visit pleasant t When the shops were removed the railroad men all transferred their library from Terrace I consists of a I lumber of bound volumes on popular subjects most of the great coast and other dailies and many of the leading magazines The Master Mechanic Mr Smith is President of the library Shaking the dust of Carlin from off our feet we boarded the evening eastbound train and arrived in Elko just as the shades of night weie falling fast niKO IS SITITATKD OX TJIK IlfilUOLnr KI KK And is the seat of Elko county and a much pleasantei and livelier place than I any other on this division There are I several very creditable business houses I public buildings and J > private residences in the town a Democratic daily newspaper i I the Independent a weekly the Free I Press a hospital a State university I building water works and a community j of very nice people I Yesterday the Elko cornet band gave a I grand basket picnic out at one of the ranches near the town Although the I out was the first of the kind ever attempted at-tempted here i was a huge success The town seemed almost depopulated so many people turned out In the evening I there was a torchlight bal given under a bowery erected for the occasion By invitation of Mr C W Groves editor of I the Independent the DEMOCRAT reporter WOK in tie lorcunguc ball I was surprising sur-prising to see such a coterie of handsome I and fascinating young ladies as were I present and notwithstanding the music I and dances were somewhat primitive imiivc I I everybody enjoyed the fun excedingly WAIST SWINGING WAS THE IOlUIAR WAY I To swing your partners and being abroad we concluded to do as Romans j do when in Rome I I Elko can boast of a fine bathing resort About a mile and a half southwest of the town are a number of excellent white sulphur springs the property of Mrs J J J Garrecht JIrs Garrecht The water is hot but can be tempered by cold water of which there is sufficient running to the place These springs are highly recommended l by the coast physicians for rheumatism diseases of the skin and especially for poisoning from lead They are situated on a Ride hill commanding a splendid view of the country around There is an conducted excellent hotel and well the furnished and well terms are very reasonable rea-sonable 1 Tjs avery large plunge I I tJl4tVtj CVA1U VfAAVLA I bUMO lS 4VlfVlJliUlUUlilt several people at a time Invalids receive special care and attention Mrs Garrecht I sparing no pains to make her guests com fortable and the springs a desirable place for people sprng recuperate their health After taking an invigorating bath we were shown a most remarkable phenomenon pheno-menon in tho way of A SUMHLMl spitiNG CALLED dllCKKN SOUl KPIUXG This is a spring supplying part of the bathing water and is located very near to the main spring By taking a soup bowl and filling it from this chicken spring and seasoning the water with plenty of salt and pepper and a little imagination it is found on tasting to very much resem ble chicken soup Peculiar but true I some shrewd Yankee owned tins spring I say Coffee John by the addition of a few crackers and some chickens he would I I make a fortune selling it for the genuine article As itis tniVf > lfir visit h tliia nlnno and drink free of n I 1d charge this soup provided pro-vided by Dame Nature and go away to I tell of the wonder that actually exists in I Nevada Suspicious people are likely to I look upon it as a story from the wild West but those who wili are doubtful can come and drink thereof and then all doubts will be dissipated al I In our calls about town we met an old 1 Salt Laker in the person of Mr Tames I VIcCourt now foreman of the Elko daily I I Mac is known to many of our printers who will be glad to hear that he is hearty and doing well and is permanently located in Nevada prmanenty > JIUTCHEK KXIFn JACK COUXTV TAIL I Was the entry that confronted us on a hotel register In the West there is nothing so very odd to hear a man ad dressed by a bloodcurdling sobriquet like the above but to see such an alias and place of alas residence on a hotel register was to say the least both odd and I humorous MiLOZn > rLZI I |