The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-06
Every Incoming Train Brings
Its Quota of Visitors to
Salt Lake.
CHARLES LAMMERSD0RF
TALKS OF RICHFIELD
J. NJ. Whitm0re Of Price, Utah.
in the City; Other Hotel
Arrivals.

Never in the history of Salt Lake
City were the hotels more crowded than
at this time AT all of the local hos
telries Thursday men were on the wait
ing list, hoping they would be lucky
enough to draw rooms before morning.
Every incoming train brought more peo-
pie 10 swell the crowds and the hotel
clerks were ''up in the air
Charles Lammersdorf, capitalist,
banker and mining man, is up from his
home in Richfeld on business, and is
registered at the Kenyon.
Mr. Lammersdorf is not at all back
ward in positively asserting that Rich
field is the most prosperous and rapid
ly growing city IN the State outside of
Salt Lake.
Last year, he said, RichGeld
made rapid strides in the way of i'm.
provemcnts and business buildings. This
year the indications are favorable for
more and greater Improvements, and
that the population will be materially
increased before the end of the year
is almost certain. Mining on Gold
mountain will be more active than
ever, and more work is mapped out in
the mines OF Marysvale than for a
great many years past. The weather
is lovely, and the indications for good
crops and prosperous year could not
be better
J. NJ. Whitmore, banker, of Price,
Utah, arrived in the city Thursday and
is guest of the Wilson. Mr.. Whit
more. in addition to his banking bust
ness, is also one of the most prominent
livestock men In eastern Utah.
Stock, said Mr.. Whitmore. new
er looked better on the ranges of Car
bon ana Emery counties at this time
of the year. The range in that sec
tion of the country is much better than
it was q few years ago Then we have
had a remarkably mild winter. The
result is that cattle and sheep are in
splendid shape.
.' Business of all kinds in Price is
remarkably good and people are pros"
being built not far from Price, under
the direction of Fitzgerald Bros. g. Ian
dreth, when completed will bring
tremendous body of rich agricultural
land under irrigation, and Will. with
out doubt, he the means of doubling
the population and wealth of Carbon
county within q few years, It is the
greatest project ever undertaken in the
way of building NJ. the county,
II. o. Harkness of McCammon which
he founded. and one of the pioneers of
Idaho, is a guest at the Wilson. He
reports. times enconragingly good in
his section. Farmers and stockmen are
doing well, and when they prosper mer-
chants, Mr.. Harkness says. can usually
take care Of themselves
Mr.. Hardness, when seen on the
street, upon his arrival in the city. said
he was in search of forest reserve of
ficer. Re said the government was ex-
tending ITS reserves all around him, and
having sawmill up one of the can
yons, he wanted to find out lust where
he was ''at y True, he owns the land
and the timber that he uses In the
mill, but in these strenuous times, when
the extending of forest reserves had be
come craze, he is ANXIOUS to know
what he must not do in connection with
that sawmlll in order to avoid n mis-
understanding with the government, as
he has no desire to have u clash under
any circumstances with Uncle Sam.
Fred Schrott, who is a guest Of the
Wilson, is in luck again, This time 1t
is another great mine al Lexington,
New, eighteen miles south of Black
Horse, In the Snake range of mountains.
The ore, which carries silver and copper
runs S6+ ounces silver and IL per cent
copper, Mr. Schrott SAYS OF this class
of ore he claims to have broken into
a vein FIVE feet wide. He will have
a shipment at the smelters within
short time, He shipped 500 ore sacks
10 the mine two days ago, Mr. Schrott
contends that the Snake is the greatest
mineral range in Nevada. The cele-
brated Deep Creek mines are situated in
the Snake range of mountains.
f. W. Ross of ST. Anthony, Ida.
prominent as stock raiser. rancher and
banker of Fremont county, arrived in
Salt Lake Thursday, and registered at
the Kenyon. Like all prosperous men
of his State, he delights In expatiatinp
on the great natural resources of Idaho
and the advantages which Fremont
county offers to the man of energy Mr..
Ross says: " Everybody is prosperous in
that section of the State and the new
railroad which IL building to the Vel
lowstonc National park from St An
thony, which is spur of the Oregon
Short Line and which will be complct-
cd this season, Will greatly enhance the
bN>lutSS VI ''ts -hulupHN. ndI new
road will be the best constructed and
about the most interesting to travel
over -of any railroad in the intermoun-
tain country
Mr. Ross says the season of unrest
for the citizens of Idaho terminated on
the day the Legislature adjourned,
happy i'll the knowledge that no great
amount of vicious legislation had been
enacted.
George r. Whitehead of ST. George
is in the city. a guest of the Wilson.
Mr., Whitehead brings glowing accounts
of conditions in that far away southern
town. Mr.. Whitehead spoke highly of
the appreciation Of the efforts of Sena-
tor \. Il, Miller in the Senate of the
recent Legislature. and the success
which crowned his efforts. The money