The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-07
HOTEL GOSSIP.

recent Dig strike OF. copper ore in the
American Fork canyon was meeting all
expectations, he launched forth on the
mighty. tide of improvements that has
revolutionized society, commerce and
travel in the past seventy years; Il re-
member, said Mr.. BateSon the time
when De Witt Clinton completed the Erie
canal. That was in 1852. and four miles
an hour was thought TO be a rapid rate
faster rate was looked upon as insane. I
lived in Syracuse, N. Y. then, and we
reveled in the luxury of one mail day;
frequently the village postmaster would
mail this evening. All the newspapers
outside of New York were weeklies. ex
cepting the e, Albany Evening Journal. ed
great days for Mason and anti-Mason
demonstrations; a Mason named Morgan
wrote and issued a so-called expose which
was as common talk at that time as
Dewey's is now, but in a different sort of
way. The building of the first line of the
present vast system OF railroads, and the
tiveS at Honesdale in the early 30s, was
was witnessed by people who travelled
hundreds of miles in wagons from what
was then considered the far west. Trac-
ton scoffers were as plentiful then as
liquid air deriders are now, but science
conquered superstition and always. will;
have been hanged for witchcraft long be
fore their projects were developed. The
first locomotive was crude affair. and
as it .puffed and wheezed and got out OF
working order, many were the sallies OF
wit fired at it.
II have come into contact with all the
varieties of the Aryan and Semitic races
in my life, and my experience has been
that the Scotch-Irish are the most vigor-
Gus molders of original and forceful
thought the world has ever known. not
excepting the ancient Greeks. am glad
to see TIE New Englanders are migrating
from thu eastern states and moving into
the far west. They are sturdy. thrifty
people, but are in want of a little more
contact with men and things outside OF
their six little states. l remember when
1 was in Chicago about thirty years ago
James G. Blaine and his wife visited some
friends there. One day Mr.. Blaine was
occupied with business and requested a
friend to escort Mrs. Blaine to a Moody
and Sankey revival meeting. Mrs Blaine
stayed at the meeting about three MIN
utes and then made a request to be taken
home, because the people were SO COM
mon and vulgar I wonder if Chicago has
improved any since that timer said Mr.
BateSon.
.The validity of an issue of 100000
worth of twenty-year funding bonds by
Lake county, Colorado, depends on
whether they were issued in violation OF
the constitutional limitation of indebted
ness said H. B. Johnson OF Denver at
the Kenyon yesterday. The county au.
thorities have refused to pay the interest
on the bonds since 1884, and have repu-
dated them on the ground that the issue
was unconstitutional. Inc case mas peen
in litigation for the past ffteen years, or
since the county first defaulted in its IN
terest, and it came before Judge Mar
shall in Denver some time ago. VINO rem
the ground that the issue was IN no way
conflicting with the limitation OF the
county's Indebtedness. A motion LOT q
new trial was Immediately maue anu IL
in a few days In case the decision is
again rendered against the county, an,
other appeal will be made to the Onlteo
States district court, which sits at 81;
Louis. All the bonds were disposed or
when they were first issued. and the mold
ers are anxious to have the final decision
rendered as soon as possible.
Arthur Strong of Greeley, Colo, one of
the most extensive sheep buyers and
feeders in that section, arrived in town
Yesterday. Mr. Strong gave a. detailed
account of the trouble that the sheep
feeders are having this season, ana said
in substance: i usually MAKE d LII, rrip 5i,Io
ing September of each year with the o ID
ject Of purchasing from 5000 to $1,000
sheep. which keep and feed through the
late fall and winter months, and then for
ward to the Chicago market in the spring.
about May l. I also obtain some sheep
from New Mexico. There has been a
marked increase the pTlCS VI SlicCP lille
fall, with the result. that to date less than
Is 1000 head have been contracted for.
whereas in previous years the NUMBER
sold to the feeders has seldom fallen be
50 600 head at $2.25. Now they want s2.65,
which is too much because it would mean
that we would have to get Z cents per
pound in the Chicago market to make
ends meet, and we can't figure with any
degree OF certainty on getting 1t. The
rise in price is probably due to the ad-
the railroads. and the advance in the
price of WOOL / came here to buy.
large number of sheep, but unless the
price is lowered 1 shall not touch 1t.
F. H Newell of the United States geo.
logical survey, who arrived in town re-
Gently on business connected with the
water supply in the Uintah Indian reser-
walton, returned to the Knutsford last
evening from Provo. Mr.. Newell re-
marked that his party was fitting out at
Provo for a long siege of work on the
reservation lands about three months.
In speaking of the supposed immense min
eral wealth in in t the Uintah region. MI
owned by the Indians that were not over
flowing with honey and gold? 1 didn't. 1
understand that there are very good agri-
cultural lands out there, but it will re-
quire good deal of irrigation to bring
it to a state of cultivation. The govern
ment is interested in the watershed in this
part of the cocntry. not only from the
Irrigation standpoint, but also in the sense
that 1t can be used as a source of energy
in the electric transmission way. Our
object is to first get all the energy there
for irrigation purposes. Utah is especially
rich in dynamic energy Of this kind, and
some day we hope to harness it..
Il have seen a great deal of Indians and
their ways in the years that l have been
on the geological survey, and I have
some doubts about the benefit to the red
man Of sending him away to the Carlisle
Indian school for four years. He returns
home to find his parents squatting on the
ground with a. dirty blanket for a suit of
clothes, and the sufferings the college
bred youth undergoes in consequence is
better imagined than described. Then his
former companions jeer and humiliate
him SO that he soon falls into his old
ways. The sufferings he undergoes in the
meantime doesn't add very materially to
his happiness. If the Indian were to re-
main with white people after he gradu-
ated from the college, we'll and good. but
If he is to return to his tribe the idea of
giving him an education that none of his
companions cav appreciate or understand
is the most pitiful case of mistaken kind
ness that know
Another thirty days will see the com
pletion of the Seven Devils road from
Weiser to Salubria, said Lewis Hall at
the Knutsford yesterday People are
going into the Seven Devils district in
large numbers every week. Many of the
old mining claims and prospects that
have been sleeping for years will be re-
opened and worked for all they are
worth. The two principal mines, known
as the South Peacock and the DEBORAH
now being operated under the SUPER
vision of Superintendent Hancock, are
producing. about. forty tons of ore day.
and is producing one carload of ore a
week The distance that the railroad will