The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-24
F. l.. Merrill of Minneapolis
Very Enthusiastic Over Bust
ness Conditions.
GUEST AT LOCAL HOTEL
NEARLY LOST HIS MAIL
Salt Lake HOstelries Are Still
Filled TO 0yerfowing, and
More Coming.

! fellow and bon vivant is lust in from
trip through The mining camps of
Nevada and is most enthusiastic about
business conditions in the mushroom
cities
why be said at the Kenyon last
night ''you have no idea of the pros
perity of the small places, And the
style. Ye Gods if there is one thing
that tho inhabitant of the average
camp wants more than he or she wants
gold 1T s good clothes. and they get
them, too, j represent a dry goods
firm, and the way my stuff was snapped
up was enough to make tho most pes
sImlstc grumber change his tune.
Through all the camps the same thing
prevailed, particularly in the gentle.
man s furnishing line. for while the
gray shirt may hold its own in camp
there are many men there who simply
must have the very latest in clothing
regardless of what il costs. General
business conditions are fine throughout
all the towns. don t mean mining
business, but The different mercantile
lIncs. 1t was my first trip through the
desert country, and | tell you l was
Just bubblng over with enthusiasm
over the thriving little places ] visited
ness being done there would make many
sedate merchants Of much older cities
open their eyes and sit up
Three days ago a short, cholcric look
ing gentleman registered at one Of the
hotels, called for his key and disap-
peared from the hotel lobby He was
not seen for several days, when he
called for his mail. The clerk invari-
ably replied that there was none In
the meantime letters began to sift in
FOR Clarence z. Bosnahan and nary a
Clarence was there on the books. The
choleric gentleman kept getting more
ana more grumpy as the answer was
always in the negative and finally de-
manded that the clerk take another
look, And If it hadn't been that the
man recognized particular envelope
he would be minus mail yet At any
rate explanations were in order and
the trouble was cleared up. Written
hastily across, the register, the sigma
ture looked identically as if it might
be Charles B, Monahan, and hence the
delay.
The, clerk, a genial philosopher,
looked after the retreatipg figure
pressed himself. 7sof the sort of It tbing
We are up against Why in the name
OF time man doesn t learn To write
his name leglblY gets me. You haven t
any idea OF the amount of confusion
not 10 speak of downright trouble to
the people themselves that comes from
this illeglble handwriting. We have TO
guess at man S name more often than
not and. of course, sometimes we miss
our guess. Those kind OF people make
me good and tired and ! would like to
tell them what l think of them. Lots
of chaps can't write a pretty hand
but there s nothing to prevent a man
putting down his name in such fash
ION that YOU can read II. -
Clarence has departed, but it is A.
safe bet that he will be a little more
particular in his chirography next time
W. C. Guggenheim Of New York is a
guest at the Kenyon. He modestly dis
claims. however, being even a distant
relation of the famous ones Of The same
name.
Arthur NJ, Jones of Waukeshs. Wis.
a prominent merchant of that city. is
q guest at the Kenyon He is travelling
through the West on a sight seeing
tour and is busy figuring out how to
dodge foods and other ills that beset
tourists in the land of the sunset.
w. NJ Smith and W. l.. Halst of
Brigham City, arc guests at the Cullen
C. R. Allen, a well known Texan,
is registered at the Cullen.
Dennis Ryas. prominent in the affairs
Of ST. Paul, MINI, is guest at the
Knutsford, He had double purpose
IN his visit to Zion. transacting business
and visiting his brother.
Pope Yeatman, manager of the Neva.
da Consolidated Mining company and in
control Of the Guggenheim interests at
Ely. is at the Knutsford. The Guggen-
helms are building smelter at Ely and
for the work. He leaves for the camp
tomorrow,
John r. Reid, mining man Of Love
locks, Nevada, is at the Kuutsford. He
came for bath and business.
Mr.. and Mrs. F.. B. Fl. Paine of Buff
falo, and Mr.. and Mrs. Fl. j. II. Tay-
lor Of Superior, Wis, arc tourists at
the Knutsford.
While modern inventions may have
elbowed a great many of the older
household helps TO the side, the day OF
the sewing machine is not even in its
evening, for Utah buys just as many
as ever. according to j, F, Kelly of Den
yer, a guest at the Knutsford. The pat
women. there are many and various
kinds on the market, but Mr.. Kelly de-
clsres that Westerners prefer to stick
to the oldtime firms which brought out
machines soon after the wonderful idea
was evolved that released women from
so much drudgery-
C. Fl. shafTer of Alaska, is a guest
at the Wilson. He gives a most en-
couraging account of the northernmost
part Of America Is possessions and de-
rides the idea that Nevada has over
shadowed the Klondyke country.
When Friday night rolls round each
week the hotel lobbies present an ami
mated picture during the early evening
hours, for pretty schoolma 'ams, from
the little country places and camps
round about Zion, flock in to do some
Saturday shopping and Sunday visit
ing. Last night the Wilson hotel en-
tertaiped 2 crowd of six Of the fair
pedagogues. Each succeeding Friday,