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Show and young; yet we have a few chickens still left, for New Year's. The young men of Mosquito and Bun-kerville Bun-kerville have been pitted against the married men of the two places playing baseball. The young chaps have carried car-ried off all the laurals up to date. The Hughes Bros, have got back from Longvalley loaded to the bows with lumber. This means more improvement im-provement for Mesquite. I wish we had wme more like them. They came over the sand, and report it as being axle deep; they were five days, with a good share of the nights thrown in, making 2( miles. T. D. Leavitt was with them, and he declares since his return home that there is not enough sand from St. George to the Muddy to supply a small adobe yard Tom knows. Stranger, Mesquite, Nevada, Dec. 30, 1898. PINK VALLEY. The. weather is? cold and windy with strong indications of storm. Many cattle are being fed here this winter because the ranges are so poor they will not support them. II. 3. Gardner started to St, George this morning to attend the session of the district court where he has been called as a juryman. Our boys who have been out to Do-Lamar Do-Lamar have nearly all come home to spend the holidays. They report everything every-thing quiet i'.i the Western mining camps. Elders Horsley and Wilcock, M. I. A. missionaries, did a good work in outward out-ward . Our Mutuals are now well attended, at-tended, and more interest in the gospel is being manifested by all. The two bretl ern have now left us and are at present laboring in Harmony. Pine Valley, Utah, Jan. 2, 1899. KSiriTK. NKVADA, The weaiber continues dry and cold. We have nearly as much ice under foot I as when the big hailstorm visited us hist puiu nier. Chrixtnuis has been spent in the usual ! way. Dancing, ball playing, horse i'ae-jing. i'ae-jing. and a ucner:il ;j u m 1 time tor old |