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Show MILFURD INDEX IDEOGRAMS '.We have had enough moisture fall in this valley during the past ten days to raise corn and wheat and oats. All we lack is men of enterprise to come and develope irrigation in the unsettled valleys and settlers to utilize the land and our rank will he high in fruit and grain raising. The Fumice Stone in the granit range east of Milford is pronounced pronounc-ed to be a good article. This assures us one more enterprise of no small dimensions. For years the United States has been paying other countries large sums of money for this stone and not until of right lote years was it discovered discover-ed here. 1 Some of our rail ronds have had : a series of bad wrecks during tlie : past ten days or two weeks. The cause of the greater part of the' trouble is, no doubt, overwork on j the part of the employes. Wo look upon thoso immediately connected con-nected with it is very often the case that loss of sleep and over taxing the physical powers are the direct cause of the loss of life and property, and yet railroad managements manage-ments will continue to indulge in the bad practice of demanding, or permitting men to disqualify them selves by long hours service. |