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

also killed many trees. 1t was the sever
est winter we ever experienced in the
Georgia peach belt. the thermometer go
ing as low as degrees below zero. We
raise the finest peaches to be found any
where and get the highest prices. because
our fruit is the first into New York and
the big eastern markets. Last year
Georsia's peach crop was big one. Other
crops, cotton and corn, are big down our
way this year"
Albert NJ. Meints. a prominent whole
sale jobber and capitalist of East ST.
Louis. and his family. are at the Kenyon.
st: Louis is growing at a rapid rate
said Mr.. MeintS. 1T has no boom, but
just a natural. healthy growth. and its
trade. as well as population. is increasing
very fast St. Louis jobbers and mer-
chants this spring almost doubled the
business of any previous year. While the
metropolis is prospecting so finely. our
city of East st. Louis. on the east side of
the Mississippi, is also receiving an i'm
petus that is carrying it to the front
Owing to its excellent railroad facilities
all of the eastern lines having their ter
minalS on the east side, il has become a
great manufacturing center. and many
large warehouses and jobbing establish
ments are on that side. Ten years ago
East st. Louis was scarcely more than a
struggling village and subject 10 inunda-
ton every spring by the freshets of the
Mississippi river. Now. however, all of
the streets have been raised to n grade
above the highest water ever known and
we are free from all danger of submer-
sion. The result is industries have located
in East St. Louis, and the population has
increased until now we are over $1,000 and
still rapidly growing"
There is nothing new in the smelter sit
uation in Colorado" said F. E. McKenna
of Denver yesterday at the Knutsford.
The matter will naturally adjust itself
as soon as the conditions are opportune,
and | expect TO see resumption soon.
The fact of the matter is that owing TO
the troubles in the Occur d'Alene mines.
the smelters could get no ores from there
and were short in their stocks of the
been compelled to draw their fires any
how. The demand of the smelter en-
ployees for new wage scale. based on
eight hours work under the new law.
would easily enough have been arranged
had the smelters not been cut off from
their supply of Occur d Alene ores. The
owners took advantage of the situation
and allowed the action of the employees
to close the smelters. instead of having to
do so themselves As soon as a requisite
supply of fiuxing ores is assured the
smelters. | believe differences between
owners and employees will be settled and
the wage question easily arranged
sheep wintered well on the range near
Cokevilie up to March 10. and then the
severe spring caused considerable loss
among them. especially among the
lambs said T. H. Clark of Grantsville,
who was at the White house last evening.
Wyoming. and myself and other sheep
raisers of Grantsville pasture our sheep
on the range near there. Although we
sustained some losses this spring. we have
come out all right and have had a big
yield and obtained good prices. About
$4,000 sheep were sheared this season at
Cokeville and prices received were from
IA to 15la cents per pound. the bulk of the
wool bringing the latter figure. Nearly
all of these sheep are owned by Grants
vile men, and the money obtained from
this clip, which has all been sold. will find
its way ultimately to Salt Lake. as this
city is where Grantsville people do all
their trading"
mo particular location for the expert
mental farm in southern Utah has been
decided upon. and will not be until the
ground is gone over again." said III. E.
Cary. one of the commissioners. who is
at the Knutsford yesterday. 1.-THE ques-
ton of water rights will be examined and
the land that.sin the opinion of the corn
mittee.i will yield the best results will be
selected. 1t Is very likely that either the