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Show Locals in St. George at present are scarce. No railroads completed yet, nor even a single shovel full of Dirt moved towards making the road bed although we have often read of its coming this. way. We have not had even a dog fight, bat all who will work have enough to do, as cleaning out old and making new ditches in the order of the day. To all appearance farmers and fruit grower ore hurrying forward the work on their canals and water-ditches water-ditches to get them ready to receive the water on their land, as to all present appearances, trees and vines that have just been set out will soon be dead if not watered soon, as the ground is very dry and hard, and the days are gettingqujte warm very sudden, the . thermometer thermom-eter running up to 50 at 7 o'clock in the morning of the 27th of Febuary and run up to 74 through the day. Almonds and apricots are in bloom while other kinds of fruit trees are showing their buds fast and it looks as though spring is here in good earnesi t |