The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-17
HOTEL GOSSIP.

J. F. Spellman is a mining machinery
man who sells all sorts Of contraptions
and jiggers that are warranted to cosi
less-and extract more virtue from the re
cesses of Utah's earth than all the prod
ucts of the other mining machinery firms
combined He says that he finds the
mining industries of Utah. Colorado and
Montana in better condition and more
prosperous than they have been for many
| years The operators are keeping pace
with the improvements in the manufac-
ture of machinery and are ordering their
plants equipped with all that is the latest.
! The copper mines particularly are making
rapid strides; they have abandoned all OF
their old mossback furniture and imple-
ments and are setting the pace for the
other mining industries.
Cripple Creek is the greatest mining
camp in the world" said CT. H. Leech at
| the Kenyon yesterday. After the de-
monetization of silver we set about to
nave gone away ahead of our expecta-
tons 1t is estimated by conservative
Colorado people that the output from the
mines in Cripple Creek alone for this year
will exceed SlS.000. 0000 and the estimated
output for December is placed at $1,000, 600
Inc district IS only half developed. There
are sixty dividend-paying mines. a large
number of producers. and between go and
ment.'
Idaho. was sauntering about the Cullen
lobby yesterday afternoon, with his hands
poked into his trousers pockets. He said
that the Idaho winters were the next
hardest thing to umpiring ball game
that he knew of, and he knew a great
many things. When winter happened
along he preferred to be classified as a
wandering shepherd who did mot love the
fold; who did not love the bleating lambs
Wheneer 1t got gosh darned cold, and so
forth forth Then Tn ., he stopped paraphrasing
cents per pound in the past tweivemonth
IT used TO be 10, now it Is 20. The advance
Is not due to the Vaccinations of the
wolf-in-sheep s-clothing trust; it has been
brought about by the law of supply and
demand. There is a scarcity of WOOL crop
owing 10 the severe droughts in the Ar
gentine Republic and Australia the past
summer II was SO deadly that it killed
OH about 30 per cent of the flock. These
are prosperous times for everybody and
people are now wearing wooden garments
get their hands on. The combination of
the two causes has produced the effect of
boosting the price cents per pound"
J. c. Gleason, the local consul of the
United Commercial Travellers association,
was holding down an armchair rubber
ing out of the window at the weather
and doing other such gymnastic stunts at
the Kenyon yesterday afternoon. He said
that ne had been touring the state for
the past three weeks and everywhere he
turned up he, found the local commercial
traveIerS chock full of enthusiasm and
anxious TO prophesy all sorts of prosperity
to the Salt Lake lodge of the organiZa-
ton. There are about twenty members in
applications for membership have been
received since the rejuvenation of the
order. and early in the new year there
Will undoubtedly be three score and ten
9oVlal travelling men roofing for the Salt
Lake branch.
Kenyon..Frank Baldwin, U. S. A; D.
D. Babb, Denver; ]. c; Truax, Chicago;
dar Rapids: Julien Smith, Butte; c. o.
ZoIers Denver; George Hansen. San
francisco francisco; f. J. Walters, Boise: Jim
W. G. Fricke and child C. H. Doane. Chi
cage; A. w. Gibson. Idaho Falls: j. c.
Wilson, Denver; Mrs. E. A. Jarvis. HUI
ron, S. d.
q knutsford.-W. Manning, Denver; E. B.
and aIi daughter. San Francisco; Fred |
NJ. Metz. New York; Jeremiah Ahern.
Alec Just, NJ. A. Cohen. New /
york; l. s. Reynolds and wife. Ogden; s. /
Meyers. Boston; w. r. Freeman, Denver; /
G. F. Walsh. Sacramento: W.
=. Gibbs New York; c. J. Jones. San
Francisco; J. Q: Siemmons. New York;
E. n. Hughes. J. A FADE. Chicago.
.Walker--Mrs c. f. Higbee. San Fran
CISCO; j. M. Shontenle, Atwood. Ills: St.
V. LIE Sieur, Provo: c. B. Andrew, Wash
nton, Pa; A. E. Lewis, Highland Boy:
lanes Hopkins and wife. Chicago; Mrs.
lanes s. Edwards, Tommy and Annie
Wilkes barre Pa; A. Christen-
sen; laramie; Hans Petersen, Provo; r.
J. Whitehead, Denver; L. E. Steinmetz.
Denver; ]. G.. Galloway. Price; Charles
Weyhman and wife, Chicago,
Cullen.-W. H. Merritt. Evanston; Ed
ward R. Chase, Bingham: William Ok
1am. DE Lamar, New w. B. Stanley !
1ell. Tustin. Cal; d. A. Mcmillan, John
Chisholm; Deer Lodge: Will Smith, Kala-
nazoo; Charles Tryon. Elko. New: A H
3arrett, Denver; w. II. Melrose Aurora.
rs j. r.. Grant, Aspen. Colo; E. B.
Y helay Evanston; j. F.. Willis Thistle;
:. j. Yard, Springville: A. F. Barnett I
Denver; G. e. Trumbull Chicago: G. f.
Y. S. Woodwork A. ]. Wheat, Aspen:
\. l.. Toone, North Ogden.
White Houses. NJ Steele. Portland:
lrs. Kelley, Ophir; Miss Ella Smith.
ogden; Miss Russ. Kansas: J. r. Olsen.
Slngham; +. l.. Hart R. w. Sloan. f. L.
luck. Ogden: Ed w. Grant, Bingham: L.
Soyd T. q. Spencer. Kearney. Neb.: Miss
, 9ainiels, M D. Daniels. Mercur; w. L.
da:; F. J. Mallet, Tooeie; George S
velch. Oregon: L. Siegeil. Nevada: r.
'treeter and wife. Elko. New: R. Stan
ey: colorado; c. d. Stanley, A A. Scott
ND wife, Aspen, Colo; r. G. Gilbert,