The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-02-25
HOTEL GOSSIP.

C. P. Barber and family Of Melbourne,
Aus, are guests at the Walker House
They are visiting Salt Lake en- route 10
australia after a trip around the world;
They 20 from here to San Francisco and
from clere will sail on the 9Th of next
month for home Mr.. Barber Is one of the
Wealthiest farmers of Australia. He went
there when a boy with but few pounds
in his pocket, and by his industry and
quickness to take advantage of OppOrtun-
titles has accumulated in the forty years
he has lived there an immense fortune
Il never went out into the diggtngS,
said he at the walker yesterday nut
put my time in on the sheep ranges and
farm lands When ] first went to Aus
tralia l worked for a big company that
owned a tract of range land IL Queens
L nd. But some way o. other the COM
pany couldn't make it pay, and ] was
offered the whole range for the debts
that were on il. That is how L got my
first start. In a short time L had the
debts paid of and some time after sold
out, making S4oo0 on the deal then
went to the colony of Victoria, where 1
bought in some farming land, and since
then have devoted myself to farming.
This trip around the world I am simply
making Cor the benefit OF my children,
who I wanted to see the cities Of the
world before starting in life
This is a very promising state" said
.. c. Schulenberg Of Butte at the Knuts-
ford yesterday. ~ tan strikes me as be
ing Just on the verge of blOssOming. 1t is
undeNelOped as yet. though one can read
Nv see that you have here some fine re-
sources. Nearly everything can be raised
In the soil When i came down here it
looked like a big garden. Some fine fruit
IS raised III tan, some OF the pest IN the
west, and every kind OF grain. The soil
is fine for raising big crops There is
nothing like 1t seen IN toe east have
been very faVOrably impressed with the
stale during my brief visit here.
I'VE have had lots of snow UP in Coal
vile said John Boyden at the White
House yesterday, but II IS almost all
gone out of the valleys. However, up in
the mountains there is plenty
Speaking of the coal mines at COalville,
Mr.. BOyden said; The output has de-
creased recently very much on account of
the demand. Last fail the company did a
lot of development ana when the winter
demand came in it was unprepared to
meet it. orders piled up anO many of
them We're never filled. and the demand
now is light and the output correspond
ingIy small The mines supply all the
local markets and Park city, and would
do better If the company could get good
rates from the railroad company. The
coal is better for domestic use than the
Pleasant valley coal though not for max
ing steam and such USES
E. J. Eddards field superintendent for
the California 8, Utah Oil company, and
+. Fleming. master mechanic for the
same company. came in yesterday from
Denver en- route to San Francisco, and
viii remain in Salt Lake few days.
Speaking of the oil industry in California
last night at the White House. Mr.. Ed
dards said: The most of our properties
sSoEnty, and the oil our wells give out is
immense. Tt is simply wonderful the
amount of oil there IS in that country,
and II seems that the output IS increasing
right along You can sink well any
where in the oil district and get it. There
IS no such thing as a dry well IN the
state, and the various companies in Oper-
alton there are making fortunes every
day. In my opinion it viii in time excel
the great Pennsylvania fields People
are coming in all the time and eastern
capital is gradually finding its way to the
oil districts.
J. Melville of San Francisco, was also
talking about the oil fields of the Golden
state ut the White House yesterday. Said
he: Every day "a sucker is born, and
suppose as long as there is such a thing
a. boom they viii be taken in ont il
California there is all kinds of oil stock.
You can buy stock for 10 and Is cents IN
oil properties and get rid of your money
just as fast you want 10, but those
stocks that sell at such low figures are
generally worthless There IS lots of fax