The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-02-27
HOTEL GOSSIP.

G w. COtTTell OF EOCk springs W Eu-B
is at the White House MI CottreIl IS
an attorney and. is staying in Salt Lake
for his health Speaking yesterday OF
the mine disaster at KemmeTer, he said:
This disaster can partly be laid at the
door of the state, for the reason that II
has failed to see that the state mine in
spectOr does mis- duty. p IN wyoming
the inspector goes around visiting mines
until his fund, which IS laid aside for
that purpose, is exhausted. and then mis-
visits are discontinued. He cannot be
blamed for not visiting the mines as he
should, for the law does not give him
funds enough to carry out its plans This
is where the law is weak There is no
use in having such an office II its pur-
pose is not carried out. Such is the status
of affairs in Wyoming
Edward ". Linforth of the San Fran
cisco hardware firm of French & Lin
forth, is at the Kenyon. Speaking of the
hardware trade in the east yesterday, be
Said- During my visit TO the east L
noticed that all the big hardware houses
are very busy. Very few of them can
supply the demand al present. And few
houses have any amount of stock on
hand, so great has been the demand. The
prices are fair, and the prospect Is that
they viii stay just where they are with
out any great alteration either way dur
ing the coming sea son. In my judgment
the steel trust will keep prices up for
some time, though what the future viii
bring we cannot tell. Two products in
our line are very scarce on the market
now namely, pig iron and iron piping
William Holmes, of the firm of Holmes
& Watkins. Provo builders, Is in from
Eureka. He says that the rain, snow and
mud have almost made the streets of Eu-
reka impossible. There has been a heavy
fall of rain and snow lately IN that min
ing camp and the result almost makes
boating in the streets a possibility. Mr..
Holmes has been engaged in building the
May Day mill at Eureka and was in
Salt Lake yesterday to hire some stone
masOnS to go to Price, where he will
erect before next August a $1,000 brick
school building.
1.-THE people up in Blackfoot are elated
over the prospects of the Short Line be
ing extended to Challis, a distance Of
about ninety miles, said James Houston
of BlackfOOt at the Cullen yesterday.
This extension has been talked about
for some time, but one cannot say when
a reality some time. It IS bound to come,
for the region up along the Salmon is one
of the finest mining districts in the state.
and besides the road would run into
country that is fast filling UP with set
tiers. That portion of the state IS grow
ing fast, but a railroad up there would
mean a whole lot to the country You
see there are lots of things in new
country that would never be opened up if
it were not for Il railroad, and that dis
trict in the same way
THE people down in Castle Dale are
singing the same old song they used to
sing. said orange Seely OF castle Oaie
yesterday at the Walker, and / suppose
it viii go on ir the same old way, little
news, little change, for a long time to
come. We've had a fair winter down
there and expect a good season. You
know we are off the railroad there. and
/ expect wei be somewhat outside of civ
ilizatien till we get one And the only
prospect of us getting a railroad at Castle
Dale is for q transcontinental line 10 hit
US some time in the future. 1t may do it,
there's no telling, but we haven't any In
ducement to offer these roads here to 60
down there, and consequently they are
not going down.
The Kenyon. H. Samon, Milwaukee;
L H Bill and wife, Buffalo, n. Y; A. =
Steiman, St Louis; r. l. Warner, Kan
sas City: H L. c. ROsehil, New York.
z. W LinfoTth, San Francisco; J =. &c
cles, Scofeld, Utah; II. Jenter, Chicago;
David Kane. St Louis; J. II. Bescner,
San Frencisco; F. z. Straup. Bingham;
john Mcknight. New York; John ii.
SpOhn. San Francisco; d T. Helm and
wife, R. c. Helm. Cora 3. Helm. Dmluth.
Wis; Mr.. Murphy, Mrs. Murphy, ST
Louis: Mrs Blizzard, Chicago; Mr.. Me
Vickery, II. W. Davis. st. Louis; George
Shevr0d. Ogden: Walter Scott and vie.
Park City; Henry II. Rolapp, Provo; VIE
liam Baugh, Sam Baugh, Pocatello, 1T. II
Reed and wife, Provo; " +. Hugne0.
Denver: J. H. ChilGs. A. 7 Gregory. tsai-
caso. B. Z. FForreski and wife. New York;