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Show IMKM.lvl SS 1K DAM ioiujim; KXODl'S OK VII.LKiK rOI.K SL Thomas. Nov. An exodus from this peaceful little village founded during the Civil war on orders of Urigham Young, ns president of tho I.. D. S. church, has bogun. after almost 300 tracts of Improved land had boon bought by the government to make way for tho like which will be backed up behind Hoover dam. About $500,000 has been paid to the descendants of the colonizers who wrested the area from the sand dunes that flank the Muddy river Just above its Junction with tln Virgin. Homes have been re moved from foundations and taken out of the village, leaving empty, hedgef ringed yards. of the large old shade trees i'i I being cut into firewood i-"-j hauled out with the be!or.r..s i of tho departing reop'.e. i The tiny postoffice is still fu"-"-: tioning. but the stores, those iiJt ' remain, are doscrtod and f:xts i loss. Other store buildx.cs ti been loaded on skids and dritfi to other towns that will be the reservoir level. Some of tv.i homos, built three-quarters r:-derground r:-derground for coolness. re"- their roofs stripped of eV.'s- their rooms denuded of turn.:- |