The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-19
HOTEL GOSSIP.

HUIEL GUSSIP.
Governor Wells better ga right ahead
and appoint a senator" said c. V. Massey
of Philadelphia at the Hnutsford last
night Continuing he sai:. I look for
Quay to be seated in the senate by the
10th Of April, and when l say that 1
think am voicing the ideas of the ma
Jority of those who have been following
the case in Pennsylvania, for the big af-
firmaJive vote TO take up the question
upon April is in itself a very significant
feature which points to the ultimate re-
suit Of the investigation" Mr.. Massey,
who Is assistant legal solicitor for the
Pennsylvania railroad ana erstwhile COM
missioner for the World fair at Chicago.
has been spending a few days in CalifOr-
MIA and is now on his way back to the
quaker City IN company with his two
daughters. In course of conversation he
said: This is my third visit to Salt Lake.
well remember the first time | came to
on the occasion of the initial trip OF the
RayInOnd-Whitcomb tours. Everybody in
the east considered the journey to be
fcofhardy project. taught with untold
danger. and prophesied that we would
never accomplish the trip, but we did, and
We enjoyed ourselves immensely. OF
course the railroad travelling facilities in
those days were not at the present state
of perfection.
Il was very much struck on this trip
with the strides that have been taken in
the west generally. San Francisco is
splendid city but vet I consider il to be
merely in an embryonic stage, when it
comes 10 being Il seaport Ire immense
Oriental trade which is being rapidly de-
VelOped VIII make San Francisco one Of
the big ports of the world before many
years go by"
James b. Russell wife and daughter of
Winchester. Va. came in from California
at 9 O'Clock Saturday night and registered
at the Knutsford. Mr.. Russell is :. web
known banker of the Old Dominion state.
/ while nus daughter is perhaps better
] known through the medium of the Illus
/ trated periodicals as being one of the
most beautiful of Virginia 6 daughters
] and the maid of honor selected to repre-
/ sent that state at the recent reunion of
! veterans.
! A. c. Lewis Of Ketchum. Ida, is quar-
/ tered at the Cullen. Lewis is en- route
/ for home. having been OF a quiet little
/ fiutter which embraced a trip to New
! Orleans, with the Incidental Mardi Gras
! carnival, and a systematic roundup of
California generally. He last night ex-
pressed himself as being cOnSideTa bly en-
thralled with the gay times in New Or
leans, although the weather was not all
that could be desired While he was in
/ Florida he encountered that stranger in
southern ATTITUDES, Jack Frost; as a con-
sequence he said that the orange bios
SONS were nipped and the crop virtually
ruined. so much so thai the growers have
]
ness in the face Of consecutive bad seas
ons and embark in tobacco raising.
and embark in tobacco raising.
The machine shops and iron works of
PittsbUrg are running full blast" said
W. z. Lloyd of PittsbUrg at the Knuts-
ford last night, and the iron masters
have all the contracts in sight which they
can handle for some time 10 come What
is most encouraging is the fact that out
side of domestic contracts there is con-
siderable foreign work under way in the
form Of bridges and locomotives, while
Baldwin of Philadelphia has big rush
order on hand for engines for the Trans
Siberian railroad.
William Carter Of Gunuison is rot used
TO city ways. few nights ago he came
to town and duly endorsed mis- signature
upon the White House register. After tax
ing in the sights of Zion he retired TO his
apartment 70 WOO sweet Morpheus. APP
parently the electric light caused him con
siderable distress. for when the maid came
TO clean up next morning she found the
guy on the slack wire had been removed
and the globe with the wire still brightly
burning. snugly tucked away in the wash
stand drawer. Carter subsequently eX-
planned that he could not sleep with
light in his room and didn't know now to
put the blamed thing out. so necessity be-
ing the mother Of invention, he slowed it
away out of sight.
J
peace Of this city, came in from Copper
Gulch. Beaver county, yesterday. The
country is suffering already for want of
rain and snow" said he at the Cullen
last night, and sheep feeders are sending
their sheep up into the mountains where
they can find water. Talking of mining
in the Copper Gulch district Mr.. Lockray
said that the Black Bird mine, managed
by Morrison Bros, had been sunk to a
depth of 800 feet in three compartment
shafts. The company will commence
prosecuting TO the vein shortly. and eX-
pect within fifty feet 10 strike rich
ticipdtiOns have been realized. In sinking
this shaft they have had to contend with
an immense flow of water which has rem
dcTcd the work very OnerOus. The shaft
was sunk on the foot wall for the pur-
pose Of utilizing the benefits that accrue
TO a solid working shaft. The Black Bird
Mining company Is rich and rellaDie
corporation, and under the direction Of the
Morrison Bros. the mines cannot fail TO
prove a remunerative investment AT
Beaver Lake c. r. South who holds the
bonds of the Copper Mountain group Of
mines. has demonstrated the fact that
deep mining Is success in the Beaver
Lake district. He has sunk a mine 10 a
depth Of 20 feet and found the richest
and best ore and in greater quantity than
has over been uncovered in the Beaver
Lake district. He expects within the next
twenty feet 20 strike water level and send
up copper Sulplides that viii astoniSh the
mining world.
c. F Bathrick Of Battle Creek. Mich. !
IS al the Kenyon. Mr. Bathrick repre-
sents a Michigan thresning machinery
concern and says that business in his line
is brisk and improving a. the time /
Battle Creek used to be. some ten years
ago. a favorite spot for the encampment
of UIo Michigan state militia" said he
- ne camping GROUND ,.sed TO be near the /
lake and a healthier location could not be |
found In those days military discipline
was somewhat lax. and the soldier BOYS /
could do pretty nearly as they pleased |
Crowds Of them used TO come down TO |
and woe betide the unlucky civilian that
they met on their way back to camp. If
they met a farmer driving into town the /
chances were they would take him out of |
his wagon aid stand him on his head. II
he resisted he was liable TO get roughly |
handled. I'll never forget one night that