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Show CORRESPONDENCE. Springdale, May 2, 1897. Editor Union. May has dawned upon us a little blustry with an occasional shower, but withal the prospects are good for a bounteous harvest this season. Small grain, in the main, looks very promising. Our fruit trees are so heavily load ed that unless there should be a frost to destroy a portion of it, it is likely that we will have to pull off some of it to keep the trees from breaking down, we will be thankful for a Bounteous crop of fruit thus year, but in the event that the rules and regulations prescribed for the orchard disinfection, by the State Board of Horticulture is rigidly enforced, we will apply the ax, as we think this is the most effective and will put an end to all controversy controver-sy on the subject. The river is very high and very dangerous to cross. On the 29th ult James Crawford, while crossing on horseback near his! father's residence at Oak Creek, two miles above town, was dismounted dismount-ed and received rather a cold bath . The swift current took him down about one hundred yards, near some brakes, where he succeeded in grasping grasp-ing a cottonwood sapling and-there-by extricated himself from the angry waters and landed safely on terra firma. He held a spade in his hand but the tool came out with him all safe and sound. One or two others have narrowly escaped being caried off in the same , manner here of late. Laura Larson, of Rockville, who is now in Long Valley, started from Mount Carmel to go to Orderville, on horseback, when the animal became frightened and ran away. She was thrown from her seat in the saddle but her foot caught in the stirrup and she was dragged some distance, during which time she was dispossessed of her clothing. When she was finally released, she dressed herself in a new dress she was taking along for an emergency, which came in good play at this critical moment. mo-ment. The young people had an outing yesterday over the hills up at Oak Creek Canyon. There is a spot in a curve in the Steamboat Mountain where the Snow is about 25 feet deep at present. pres-ent. Snow often remains there all summer. Wishing You success, I remain, Yours Truly. Dixie |