The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-18
HOTEL GOSSIP.

Hon. f. L. Graves, a pioneer mer-
chant and mining operator of western
Montana, arrived at the Knutsford yes
terday from Bannock, accompanying
MS two daughters, Misses Georgia and
Edith. who will enter st. Mary's acad-
envy. Mr. Graves, who is president of
the new State Bank of Dillon, has
witnessed a great transformation in his
state since he settled there in 1864. He
is. however, beginning to feel that the
winters up there are too long to be
agreeable and has a favorable opinion
of Salt Lake as a residence place.
Gold mining is still going on in the
vicinity of Bannock. but it is in the
new way. Along Grasshopper creek,
where almost the first discoveries of
placer gold in Montana were made and
where the famous Plummer gang OPP
Grated and stretched hemp, there is
now a plentiful output of gold, but not
from the bars that have been repeat
edly worked over. Now there are four
large dredging machines working on
the creek to a depth of thirty-five feet.
Each machine handles from 1,500 to
2,eO0 yards of dirt daily, at cost of 10
cents a yard. The operations yield sat
isfactory returns, states Mr.. Graves,
and several other concerns in other
parts of the state and in Idaho have
followed the example of working Grass
hopper creek in the new way. Efforts
were made to tunnel to bed rock and
drift, but this plan yielded poor results
because of the slight fall in the creek.
Mr. Graves reports prosperous times
in his section, and he finds disposition
of wage-earners to accumulate bank
accounts more than heretofore when
prosperity was the rule. Even horse
~ 1o,a the advanced
prices for their stock. Politically, Mr.
Graves believes that Montana will go
Overwhelmingly for Bryan and free
silver again.
Plat B Walker, jr., business manager
of the Mississippi Valley Lumberman
an established trade journal pub
lished at Minneapolis, is at the Knuts-
ford, having come over from Denver
where he fraternized with his fellow
Hoo Hoos last week. Never before has
there been such an active demand fol
lumber as has been the case the past
six MONTHS said Mr.. Walker. Prices
have advanced an average of 81 to S,
thousand on all classes of lumber
The mills at Minneapolis are 1000 cars
or $4,000, 900 feet behind in their orders
and the thirteen mills turn out a half
billion feet annually. Closer and closer
are the mills getting up to the timber
tracts. In years to come the Pacific
coast will supply the whole country
but to ease up the pressure now an eff
fort will be made to get the tariff of 81
on Canadian lumber taken off. Thai
will help. Before long you will gel
some more railroads out west, and the
lines that build branches into the tim
Der belts in various parts of the noun
tain states will find big profits in it"
c. R. Mcbride, the Tooele merchant
is at the White House. Speaking of the
establishment of a bank there by him i
self and j. c. Sharp, he said the report
was little premature, although he be-
neVed 1t would not be long before a
Wlde-awake company of Tooele capital
lists would enter the field which is so in
wiling in his estimation.
Congressman Robert j. Gamble, ac-
companied by his wife and son, was at
the Knutsford yesterday, en- route from
the coast to his home at Yankton. S. d.
He Is OF the opinion that the admnistra-
uon VIII 90 Its part to continue the in
duSthial revival by setting all monetary
question at rest by solution that will be
satisfactory to the mass of the people, but
IN what manner he would not undertake
TO say. 1t is also Congressman CANDLES
pellef that congress viii satisfactorily adj
Just the issues in the Orient by legislating
Tor the good of the Hawaiian islands and
outlining a satisfactory policy with re-
spect to the Philippines.
In my opinion, any lady who has
Travelled as have can always command
courteous treatment and respectful at
tention wherever she may be placed" So
spoke Miss E. n. Davis a the Kenyon
last evening The lady is the traveiing
representative of the L. ii. Thomas COM
pany OF Chicago, makers of ink, mucilage
and library paste. This is her first trip !
to her new field in the west. and she re-
ports a fine trade from dealers in the
race of strong competition. Miss Davis !
Is one of the. very lew commercial trav-
elers of the fair sex who does the wild
and Wooly west, but she chose this field
in preference to the eastern and middle
states, where she Travelled tour years with
great success.
Il have never received an unkind word
or AN Insult in any of my travels, and
find my business journeys quite con-
genial, said Miss Davis Why are there |
50 few lady drummers? Because houses
usually prefer the men on the theory that
the women viii pick up with a man some |
Where ana get married. But l think l
nave stood the test pretty we'll
Colonel Albert D. Mcleod, assistant
general freight agent of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton railway, with
headquarters at Cincinnati, is at the
knutsford with his wife and daughter. |
Colonel Mcleod has been attending |
the convention of Hoo Hoos at Denver. |
E. ]. Fisher, claim agent of the Ore
gon Short Line at Pocatello, is at the
Walker House.
T. F. Fitzgerald, Pacific coast passen-
ger agent of the Texas & Pacific. is at |
the Kenyon from Los Angeles. Mrs.
Fitzgerald is with him.
w. L. Hoge. secretary and treasurer
of the Utah & Pacific, arrived at the
Knutsford from Anaconda last even
ir-.
Mrs, R. C. Smith, queen of the Weber
county fair, is a guest at the Kenyon.
Mrs Charlotte NJ. Halleck of Wash
lngton and Miss Mamie L. Bryant of /
Clifton Forge, Va, are guests of Mrs.
f. w. Ross at the Manitou.
j. W. Bailey, the Denver insurance
man, is at the Kenyon.