The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-05

was made practicable continued Mr.
Cassidy, who is interested in mining
enterprises in Colorado. tNow comes
electricity-an agent, and not a natural
source of power, to displace steam.
Water supplies the primal force; cleo
tricity, that nystifying, engine-driving
fluid, is the result. Running to waste
for centuries in the tortuous gorges
of the Rocky mountains there are
rushing. tumbling streams that are cap
able of supplying sufficient power TO
run a large part of the mills, the mines
and the railroads of the nation when 4
safe method of continuous distribution
is found In the days of wind, water
and steam each individual user had to
make steam his own power Now,
with electricity and the development
of great transmission lines, the size of
the power plant is no longer confined
TO the needs Of the individual consumer.
Nor need the mines, OF mill, or tram
way, or any other industry be near the
source OF its power. Science and en-
gineering ingenuity will add to the
distance at which this potential power
NAV be used. The possibilities are
without limit, not only in Colorado,
but in al parts of the United States. -
ising season Of the last twenty five
years" said Maj, Charles P. Braslan
of San Jose, Cal, an extensive seed
grower in the state. CONDITIONS for
big crops have not been so favorable
in quarter Of a century and the time
has passed when the harvest can be
looked upon with any uncertainty, for
the crops are sure to be harvested.
Much of the wheat already has been
cut, and in some cases large quantities
of seed have been put in the ware
houses. The fruit yield this year will
be the greatest in the history of the
state, because weather conditions have
been Just right for growing. 1t is not
alone in fruit and agriculture that Cali
forpia Will be prosperous tins year.
The state will become the greatest oil.
producing state in the union. None of
the big oil states will srrpass in
Weld of oil what will come from the
wells of California in a few years. The
oil industry is only IN It's infancy, but
enough wells are in operation in the
San Joaquin valley 10 warrant the
prophecy that nothing nke it has ever
been known IN the great oil-Pro!ducin!g
states. There are guShers in California
that are yielding $4,000 to 10000 bar
rels of oil a day. and it is the belief of
experts who have gone through the val
ley that larger wells will be found.
Every day or two new wells are dis
covered. -
Says West Is for Taft.
$50 far as the people Of Washington
and persons on the Pacific coast are con
cerned, President Taft will spend four
years more in the white house after
his present term eXpires,' remarked
Louis II. Burnett, prominent merchant
Of Aberdeen, Wash. Mr.. Burnett was
the Washington state representative to
the Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition,
and met the president on the occasion
OF his last visit to the Pacific coast,
3" Mr. Taft is we'll liked in our coun-
try. HI Is a man who does things, and
without the flourish of the so-called
big stick The president, IN the eyes
of the people on the coast, is an even
tempered man. who does lot of think.
ing before he acts Mr. Taft is to be
commended on the stand he has taken
in the Ballingcr Pinchot controversy.
He appointed Mr.. Ballinger TO his
cabinet. and is standing by him. Can
anything better show the disposition
and sincerity of the man! Mr Taft
does things, but lie does them in such
a way AS not to cause whole lot of
comment. Give President Taft chance,
is the slogan being shouted on the
coast, and he will make good. Aber-
OF the greatest lumber shipping ports
in the world, During tho past year we
shipped 649, ,964 ,9lS feet of lumber out
Of Grays harbor. This is an enormous
quantity, when the size of the city and
its facilities are taken into considers
ton. There are 10000 people IN the
city, and the population has increased
400 per cent since 1899,