The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-13
HOTEL GOSSIP.

lation 14-foot chain out three-inch links
| had been working at the cussed thing
| for about two weeks, and the job was
getting as moE2toIous as the blisiers on
| my hands were painful The processes of
| upsetting the ends of the piece of iron.
| and then keeping them in the fire uEieil
they were at proper welding heat Of
yanking 1t out with ten feet OF CHAIN
! dangling from the other end and puttirei
! it over the horn of the anvil with one
| hand while | grabbed a hammer and tried
! to we'd 1t with the other. were less allure
/ ing than the prospect OF making snowfall s.
on the campus had conciuded to add.
enc more link, and had just taken it,
| from the forge with the ends splitting
sparks on my hands and Clothes. | guess
| must have been kind of slow in those.
| days, because the heat had subsfeed 70 a.
| duh red before the weld was Completed
/ was hammering away for dear life in
hope9 of getting the edge TO lie down 50
! tho Instructors swarthy old tobacco
! chewing codger named Granger-would
! pass it, ard let me go out and revel in the
SHOW. was eieefully contemplating the
prospect of hoodwinking the old man,s as
we boys were wont TO call him. whensI
looked up from my arduous Slabors and
found him standing at my fire with ms
grimy and SiZZled face decorated with an
iG.otic grin. He cont sinplated me and my
work for a couple of minutes and closed
the brief session by remarl1ing in know7it-
all torres: Young man. there were only
two blackSmiths that ever went to heiE
Ong of them didn't charge enough for his
work. and the other tried to weld cold
IRON
Victor NJ. Clement. the well known nin-
ing engineer, was at the Knutsford yes
terday. He has Just returned from am
eight months mining expedition down III
Old Mexico. and said that he felt like
spinning some yarns about the countrX@
THE people are the most improvident on
the face, or the interior for aught know,
of the world. They never look after to-
morrow. and their warts are, few and
easily supplied, especially their clothesat
1lney waste very little time over shirts,
collars, cuffs and such didos. They arc
lazisr than Sam Hill: everything is grown 1
for them, wild fruits are abundant, and !
falling throughout the year. The mines
are situated in the states of Mtchaacaf1
Guerrero and OaXaca, and are en-. the
Pacific coast at an elevation of about $3.50
silver, Lead and copper, but have not bessn
worked since the expulsion of the span 4
iards, The ore is all of nigh grade, hut
it is impossible to tel anything about the
quantity because the mines have caved |
in owing to neglect. We found few |
traces of the old mining machinery on the
old days the so-called machinery con-
sisted of rawhide and mesquite wood. 1t |
is a beautiful country, and very warm /
along the coast. The past year mas Wit !
messed q great influx of Mexicans and
Americans. on prospecting and investment |
bent. The country has remained unde-
NelODeQ heretofore. OWlIS 10 Tie etb~sSItS1C
of railroad facilities, but row that the
connections have been made 1t Is likely
than large mining camps Will follow. Al I
present tine Indians are peaceably IN !
clined; th,sy have been Sd during the latter n
part of President Diaz's adnrinistr a tlons 4
and would always remain so If the po-ttl-
cal instigators of Mexico did not MI them I
full of whisky and foolishness.
THE popular drink among the natives
is pulque,; the City Of Mexico consumed
100000 pounds of beef last year. and
5.0O0000 gallons of the insidious drink. i
have ssen lots of Americans who could
not get on with the climate, but l have to
see the one who finds any olInculty get
ting acciimated to the pulque: 1t is made
from the century plant and feTmenteid,
and is a little lighter than our tesr.
Judge Daniel S. Dana of Portland. Ore, !
ard surydry ether Places on the map of
tine country wec,. of the Missouri river,
is in town sk!rmisliing around With some
weishty. prob;5sms meath the roof Of h.s
stouch has. The judge, IS a nictufesqqea
ind v4dual, wish a gcod deal OF the old
father Kntckerbccker, OF Washington
Irving cors,tructgou, IN ms makeup.
Rugged in sillIen hreechetS and Stockings,
WIKI silver buckles and OXFORD ties, q
frlisl1 Shirt and swaGiow-tah coat. and
si.cck the venerable gentleman might De
taken fer some ancestor who had stepped
ore of his frame ON the wallis of the
barcnIal maneCcn. He likes to rSmlniSee
wsp1n the spirit is ON him, and yesterday
he FOUND time to say. A long lllHS dsSO. !
when l was a. young wllippersnapper and
foolIng away a good many precious mo
ments dil}y-daLlylng around IN che social
swim, l lad a pretty good opinion OF the
personal magnetism enclosed by the suit
of c,o.hecs on the back of Daniel Dana
There was an Old colonial mansion, with I
white flu-e1 columns in front. that | used
to frequent. The family were very hos
pbtable, ard the Two comedy daughterSB
were. turn ard turn about the cause of
D. Dana spending many a sleepless n1gnt;
One day in q burst of confidence | told
the fond father that l must make up
my mind which one ] wanted, thl1c was
fast falling away in flesh and spirit,
and unless he would give his consent TO
the proposed union ] Should go some
where and hang myself. I wish you
would, young man., said he because i
am sick and tired of seeing you hanging
around here
T. e. Sackville West, nephew of the late Fl
from the court of St. James,
was in town yesterday from a six weeks
and fishing trip in the, jack
sons Hole region This is Mr.. Vests
irsJ visit to the States and like all his
sOuntrymen he is impressed with it's geo
extent, and the luxurious mode
Vt travel across the continent. He said
asst evening that. unlike the rest of the
BIftishers he took a fancy to ice water,
lot mullins and rocking chairs, bun he
.ouldn't see how the Americans c0u5d
i've in the heat that IS to be found in
heir houses in the winter season. He.
likes green corn and sweet pota toes, and
sn't averse to toastfng mis- shins at AZ
md rain 1T is bettef than nothing he ,
aid, but there isn't anything on earth
o compare with the English open fire
,lace. / don't take very kindly co these
Wasting machines they have in the ho-
els and as he said it ne backed away
n terror from q steam radiator and went
outdoors in search of some of the cold
nd damp air that makes every Britisher
eel as If he were back in dear old
london.
John Geary of London, Ont, who reg i
stored at the Culien yesterday, spoke i,
gigh great emphasis regarding the con-
uct of Great Britain in not Fastening :
Ter troops to South Africa earlier. THE !
eople of Canada are in strong sympathy :
With the mother country" he said, AS &
vas evidenced by the marsha-ling of u =
oiunleer regiment for action against the a
;oers and the paying of their transpOrta- !
ion to the scene of action. Considerable i
5spleasure has been aroused in Canadian :
reastS by the dilatordnesS of Great Brit Y
in in getting troops to the fore. as the
resent strife has been considered almost S
levitable for some time. The Beers ara b
God fighters, as is well known, and the :,
0ncensus of opinion in the Canadian cap
al and elsewhere seems to be that great i
laughter may take place before the !
roops from England reach The republic,
mich could have been avoided had the b
purse, there can be but one result +. e..fi :
ne conquering of Kruger, but the blood q
he'd consequent upon delay is to be Ia
lenited.
1T gives me great pain to note THAT
lany newspapers here see fit to syInpa- T
ME with the Beers in this differencesl
,ngland sympathized with the United
tates throughout her recent trouble, and
seems; rather odd that her efforts IN II