The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-23
HOTEL GOSSIP.

| II. ID. Elliott. prominent horseman
/ and dealer Of Price, was at the White
/ House yesterday. He is buying small
/ horses TOR the government, for use in the
Philippines.
Price is a splendid town and has a
/ fine future before it. said Mr.. Enott.
Il here IS not an empty building in town,
( and new ones are gong up right along.
| Our population continues to grow at the
same steady rate il has for the past four
| years and our merchants are ali doing a
I good business. a great many sheep are
being shipped and soon cattle will move
and large numbers Will be shipped TO the
eastern markets. Cattle are in good con-
diJIon. but the grass on our ranges was
becoming little Thin However. the re-
cent rains were u great benefit ana II is
coming uD again tne.
]. b. Wheeler. prominent banker and
capitalist OF oklahoma City, is at the
Culien.
Our territory has the largest crops it
, has ever had. which makes three big
crops in succession. consequently the peo-
pie are in very nne financial condition,
and have no need TO borrow. said he last
evening. Our population is nearly 4-0.uO9.
and we are anxious and certainly entitled
TO statehood. Oklahoma City is growing
very last. a big cotton Seea oil mill has
just been competed at cost OF 100000,
and alss a cotton compress that cost $0J. :
90. We shipped from our town 2vOo.0o0
bushels of wheat and 5000 bales of cot
ton last year. Oklahoma CITY has no
boom. II is just a natural growth. The
completion of the FRISCO ROAD 10 that CITY
opened up a good deal OF new territory 10
It's merchants
John c. Coombs. the Boston capitalist.
who is largely interested IN Utah mines,
and his mining engineer. George ii. Ions
berry of Denver. reached the knutStord
last evening from the west. 2Iter week $
absence from the city. Both had on their
mining clothes when seen h a Herald
brr Ia u
result of their trip
I'VE have been out in Nevada looking at
some properties, said Mr.. Coombs. our
trip was into the YerringJon district.
some distance south of Reno. The prop
critics we were investigating were copper,
but as to the results of our observations
and what l have done, am not ready TO
make 1t public
Knutsford.-O. II. APPLICABLE st. Louis;
Misses Anna NJ. Gerwlg. Helena A. Noeg-
thy Flora T.. Voegthy and Gertrude y.
Noegthy. Pittsburg; H. w True: Halifax;
c. r. Nash. New York; NJ. s Bevis and
wife, Mt Ayr, Ia; +. W. Sillen Daw-
son; Miss Rose Meysr, MSS Ta Ora DesAeT'
Mitchell. ST. Louis; Alfred A Wikico-
meyer. Hamburg. Germany; j. a Leigh
ton, ST. Louis; L. H. Ankele, san Fran
cisco; L. j. Yard. Utah; Joseph T-.Jack-
son. Alex BaIfour. Philadelphia: H. II.
Yard. Beimar. n. j.: II. S. Hart, Chicago:
]. C. Woods. Albany; f. A smith and
wife. Denver W. v. 4 lily.
George A. Lonsbery. Denver; John C.
Coombs, Boston.
White House.-G. Woolock. Idaho; F.
E. Lesowid and wife, New Orleans. La;
Jobe HILL Miss Annie Gates. heanson,
Cache Valley: j. Nelson, C. P. Osberg.
Leadville Colo. j. II. Barton. Boise. Ida:
L. Vassen. st. Joseph. Mo-; ]. Hickey.
Nevada; Mrs. j. p. Driscoll. Eureka: j.
Shaw, ]. Hendrick, Ogden; R. L. Shaw
and wife. Portland. Ore; F. NJ Baird,
Pocatello: ]. Hickey. j. p. Riley. Butte;