The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-24
HOTEL GOSSIP.

Mrs. W. H. Enochs OF Washington, D.
G., and her sister, Mrs. Tomlinson of
Ironton. O., are guests at the White
House. Mrs, Enochs is the widow OF
Brigadier General w H Enochs. who
originally commanded the Fifth Virginia
infantry of the federal army in 1851, and
was afterward promoted TO brigadier gem
eral for galIantry in action, and served
through the war in the Eighth army
corps of the army of West Virginia, un-
der General Crook and Phil Sheridan.
General Enochs afterward represented
southeastern Ohio in the congress and
was an intimate friend of Colonel W. J.
Bryan. Since General EnochSs death,
Mrs Enoch has spent most of the time
travelling in foreign countries, and has
been the recipient of many courtesies
from people prominent in public life both
at home and abroad While travelling
religious customs of all the countries Wis
TIED. This knowledge, coupled TO a
Charming personality and superior intel
hgence, marks her as one of the most in
terestfng and entertaining women that
has ever visited Salt Lake. Her son,
Berkeley Enochs, was graduated at West
Point in April. 1898, and Immediately as
signed to the Twenty-fifth United States
infantry with the rank of second lieuten-
ant. He proved himself TO be a chip off
the old block at FL Caney, and though
first lieutenancy for conspicuous gallantry
in action on the fateful LIST of July. He
is now in the Philippines with his regi-
ment, and Mrs. Enochs is studying hard
TO solve the problem that will en-
able her to visit Manila this fail. She
goes from here to San Francisco and
poets to be in the Philippines early in
November.
Mayor Frank Hall Of Mercur wan
dered from the fold yesterday and
strayed into the White House. He is en-
thusiastic on the subject of prosperity
in Mercur and thinks the way things are
booming in the wide-awake little mining
camp must be due to determination. grit
and birth under favorable constellation.
He said:
Our population has increased SO per
cent in the past year, and there is tlot
an fdler in the town. Vacant houses are
are being erected. The place is going
ahead with seven league strides and the
outlook for the future is as bright as the
product of the mines, and that is pure
gold, every smitch of it."
''If you want to get Turkish bath. or
a series of them, for nothing, put on your
pajamas and venture into the southern
part of Sewer county,. quoth j. w.
White OF Bingham. ITS hotter than
lonesomest place | ever got into-and I've
been in a good many in my time. was
inveigled into the worst kind of miser-
ableneSS by the gold will o. the wisp, and
now m full of experience malaria and
Stagnant water. l ran across forlorn
looking individual at Aurora, who showed
me the result of twenty-five years labor.
1t consisted of six assays, and the best
ne had to offer was S6.25 TO the ton. The
ore is refractory and it's losing propo-
sition to attempt to work 1t. In Emery
county L found some copper stained rock
that asSayed maximum of per cent.
That was on Cedar mountain and II 1t
assayed 40 per cent it couldn't be worked
protitably, because there is no water and
the railroads are from twenty TO thirty
five miles distant.
From an agricultural point of view,
the whole Sewer valley is wondrously
rich South of Nephi / saw three steam
threshers within a mile radius going full
speed. The farmers are now interested
in grains, but next spring they are go
ing to take up with sugar beets. Inc
sheep industry is the most extensive and
profitable. l couldn't find a place to pas
ture my horse. because the entire dis
trict was leased by the shepherds
P. E. Williams halls from Tintic and
is the owner of the California mine. He
is rooming at the Walker and taking in
the sights hereabouts. II come from a
region where the winds blow big guns
year in and year out, he said, and 1t
also blows newspapers, Tin cans and
other property native to back yards, clear
into the next county. If some inventive
genius would happen along with tigger
operated by sails that would work
pumps drills and such like, he'd retire
and live on his income in ten years time.
The dust out there is a foot deep. and If
we didn't keep shovelinS, we'd be buried
out of sight. l never saw such place
for breezes. 1 wish Chicago would give
US a race. If it did, we'd win out in
canter, and verify the truth of the old
wise saw that says, It's an i'll wind that
profits nobody.
Charles E. Winterringer is the ticket
passenger agent Of the Columbus, Hook
ing Valley & Toledo. He was at the
Knutsford with his comDatriotS yester
day and kept them and himself hump
ing along until train time Doc ISM
as much energy as an eight-day clock;
but, unlike the latter, he is possessed of
an automatic winding attachment and
never runs down. He got into the water
at Saltair yesterday, took a dive, and
then the brine got into him. In Columbus,
tillions and attends afternoon teas and
receptions. II have been at good many
of the latter in my society days." said he,
last night. but the reception given US
By the Salt Lake railroad men is by
long odds the very warmest baby in the
bunch.
The Walker hotel is the sole possessor
in town of a new wrinkle in the way of
register holders. 1t is product Of the
Telegraph Job Printing company of Du-
buque, Ia, and consists of a nickel plated
frame. with blotter, mirror and ball
bearing attachments. A touch of the fin
ger suffices to place 1t in any desired po-
sition. 1t is godsend to the worn out