The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-05-19
HOTEL GOSSIP.

F. A PODenOe, proprietor of the Topeka
Capital, immortalized by the Rev. Shell
don recently, was in the city for q few
hours yesterday. After taking lunch at
the Knutsford he proceeded to take in
the sights of Zion and Saltair to board
the train for the east in the evening.
Richard English, master mechanic for
the Rio Grande Western at the salubri-
Gus village of Helper, came into the zone
of civilization yesterday.
When seen at the Kenyon last night he
stated that the reports that have ema-
mated from the little railroad burg to The
effect that the entire white population vas
up in arms against the Importation OF the
almond-eyed JaDs as section hands were
entirely without foundation.
AT the present time" he said, there
are not more than ten japanese employ
ed as section hands in Helper. These men
are working on the track east of the
town; west of Helper all the section hands
are white men. The balance of these who
came last week have gone out on the des
ert where it is impossible to get any white
man to work in the summer time.
English says that the Orientals are a
decided Improvement on the Cinnamon
who heretofore have practically had mo-
nopoly on the transcendent delights of a
summers residence upon the desert in
the health giving Chinese bunk houses
that are strung along the track at stated
/ intervals.
James Andrus of St George came into
town yesterday with half the epidermis
on his classic prOboscis sacrificed to old
sol. Andrus expressed himself al the Gull
len last night as being tickled to death
over the recent transforms that have Wis
tied Washington county in a fashion that
puts the "reminiscences of the oldest in
habitant IN the background. He says that
the people way down in Dixie are now re-
yelling IN early potatoes and other cpl
curean dainttes and generally living on
the fat of the land, with the comfortable
assurance. of good times in the immediate
future.
J. J. Shields a mining man who halls
from Los Angeles, is among the guests
that are quartered at the Kenyon. Shields,
when he is not reciting the latest story
that is going the rounds, talks Los An
geles. Among other things that that Cal
norman health resort is noted for is eS-
Senually its oil fields. Last night he said :
THE discovery of oil in the vicinity of
Los Angeles has practically ruined some
of the best residence portion of the city
! on account of the unSightly derrickS that
have been erected in the neighbOrhOOd.
The trouble with the people is that those
who have IN the past dabbled in oil have
/ been for the greater part nOV1ces. But
we are learning better and the boring OPP
eratiOnS are now carried on on a more
Z y
in its infancy. as you might say, as re-
CARDS California nevertheless we rank as
the fourth state on the list as a producer
of petroleum and are just beginning to
develop at that
Mr. Shields states that out at Summer
land near Los Angeles there is now the
novel sight of derricks erected in the sea
which pump up the crude oil from the
bed of the ocean. He tells the same story
as INDUCED in by every resident of south
ern California who visits Salt Lake to the
effect that the people in that section Of
the state are anXlOusly awaiting the
emancipation day when the Salt Lake
Los Angeles cutoff will be an accom-
plished tact and the two cities be brought
INTO nearer contact generally.
When seen at the White House last
night H. c. Morrey of Evanston was dis
coursing on the possibilities of Utah as a
fruit growing country. AS Morrey has
been in the nursery business for the past
thirty years and has Travelled every road
in the state for nearly as long period
he maintains that he knows whereof he
speaks. In course OF his discussion last
night he said: If the farmer only knew
it there Is more money in fruit raising
than in anything else. 1t seems though
that he has got into a rut and there he
stays. He persists in growing luCerne,
which out in the country districts seldom
fetcheS more than s. ton in the stack
Now, when he comes to figure I'D. that is
! no paying proposition for it costs him
fully So a ton to produce the hay from
/ first to last If he would only raise an
/ orchard he would soon have money in the
| bank Down at Provo last year some fru1t
/ growers cO-Operated and filled car with
! pears and shipped them east, with the re-
suit that they got 81 a bushel for their
/ fruit. Now one only has to figure up
/ two bushels per tree and each Tree in an
/ orchard fifteen feet apart to get at the
money there is in every acre of fruit trees.
! While it is true that a number. of people
So 4F~sar. 4...T
nate fruit tree planting they do not seem
/ TO understand the business, and expect the
! trees to take care OF themselves instead
of attending to them. If a man wants to
go into the business he must quit general
/ farming and devote his time and attention
| exclusively to his orchards and they will
pay him better than any farm ever did
/ before"