The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-01
HOTEL GOSSIP.

HULL GOSSlP.
THE sheep owners of Utah are awaken
ing to the fact that hsEh-brei sheep are
! better than Scrubs said J. II. Kirkoat-
rick of California. who has been selling
high-bred rams throughout the state. Mr.
Kirkpa trick. who is at the Cullen. said
last night that of the four carloads OF
rams which he brought here he mas sold
nearly all and will c.ose out his business
in few days
There are many owners in the state.
he continued, who can't understand or
breeds of sheep which will 90 better and
be more profitable in Utah than other i
breeds. They seem to think that a sheep I
is sheep and that all sheep are like all .
other sheep no matter what they may be T
called This opinion, is due: to Isolation. Z
The sheepmen here are a long way from I
fall into ruts.
But some of them are becoming very [
progressive. They are beginning to realize {
that by being careful and selecting thor
sheep more money Is TO be made from
them
From what l can learn from the own
ers in Uintah county. there is quite
general belief among them that the gov
eminent will not again order them off
surb proceeding. anyway We have
| learned by experience in California that
sheep are beneficial to forests. BY eating
the grass and destroying the small under
brush they lessen the chancts of fire."
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From statements made by'J. H. Brown.
who has just come from Cape Nome in
Alaska and is at the ,Knussford on his
way east, next spring will see a ire
mendouS rush of gold seekers. He be-
lieves that there will be many thousands
mere than were ever in Dawson and the,
Klondike district about it. Last summer
country. but as there is little fuel at very
high prices, and practically no accommo-
dations for the cold winter three-fourths
of this number left.
There were at the most in the Klondike
put 1900 persons. according to the Can
adam police cerisus. and many have left
there for the new diggings. One of the
principal attractions at Cape Nome Is the
fact that being in American territory
there is no DutdenSome royalty TO pay.
There is no longer doubt of the presence
of gold in large quantities, fer IL has been
found. The beach dggings have paid re-
markably well and claims line the coast
for many miles.
There has been some typhoid fever and
indications of more. due to the filth that
1900 persons, with no sanitary arrange
ments or restrictions.
81 have been. in good many towns
and cities of Utah. said ]. Y. Williams, a
commercial traveller. at the Kenyon, "and
the great thing in my estimation. which
is lacking is energy. The people haven't
got push and enterprise. With these there
would be twice as many people here,
twice as much wealth and Salt Lake City
would be twice as large as ii is.
of course. this is said upon the pre-
sumption that it is the ambition of the
come great and wealthy. II they want
to remain pastoral community. they
are doing very well. At Provo the. other
day / heard of man who last summer
sold his Strawberries for 10 cents per =
quart when the prevailing price was Is
cents When asked about it. he said: oh. .
p1n fha,
even if l can get 10.
Now to my notion that is not business
and enterprise. In an open market where
there Is no trust or no corner. anything
is worth what people will pay for it. That
mans Strawberries were worth Is cents
Why there are enough minerals here
to make this one of the most remarkable
districts on earth. / don't suppose that
so many kinds and such large quantities
of minerals: There is enough grazing
land to make rs dairy production the
mineral waters sufficient to make it more :
famous than Carlsbad.
But you must let people know about
these things and encourage them to re-
main wheit they have come
E. J. Fisher of Pocatello, who has come ,
here on business. and is at the Walker =
House, said yesterday that the only thing
which would make anything of the town ,
was the opening of the Fort Hall reserva-
ton. and even that may do no good he
continued: I dor't know what is the
matter with Pocatello. except that il is
simply railroad town with no natural
resources behind it. 1t depends wholly I
upon the railroad men for its existence ;
There is neither mineral nor farming land {
tributary to it $
But if the government would open up ;
the reservation to settlers and miners
something might be produced which | ]
would afford a source of revenue outside
of the railroad payroll. There have been
prospects in the hills on the reservation
and some miners believe that minerals
exist there. But there has been no work
to determine the fact definitely. When :
ever an Indian finds a white man wander
ing about the mountains he has him put .
off. As a consequence all prospecting is 9,
done by stealth The Indian wifi do n0th-
ing with the mineral and he doesn't want :
a white man to touch it. OF course, that s
may be the correct policy TO follow but
there are a great many persons who
Mr. Fisher is as pess.mistic as a de-
feated political candidate when he dis ]
Idaho for five years he has never voted ,
Fun-maker Harry Vance advance agent
of Hoyt's Black Sheep company. is
seeking solace lom depressing one-nght
stands and everl{ sting rsilroading. at the
Kenyon. A genial smile plays round the
corners of his mouth. and the twinkle in \ :
his merry eyes out-lusters the most bril-
liant. star in the whole theatrical firma- /,
ment. There is no affinity between Mr.
Vance and the seas of worriments that
beset the path the average angel is
destined to travel in, and il is a good !
thing for him and his friends that tits So
for the streaks of gray that zigzag
through his raven locks tell the story
of many hustle TO make both ends meet |
at hotels and railway stations He car.
tell hard luck stories by the bushei and y
there are few towns in the southern j
that have not. at one time or an r
other. beheid him in the clutches of grim Y
despair. Mr.. Vance has a chime of four 1
hard luck bells. hotel bills. transportation c
baggage and sick leading ladies' S
in his belfry. and he can ring the changes
on them in a way TO make one think that
the theatrical profession IS all sunshine
room-only- houses, and money to S
burn. or he can iangle them in a way to b
convince that he were better dead than {