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Show MESQl'ITK. I moved to this placo from Gunloek about two weeks ago. Everything here looks favorable for good crops; plenty of water and good hind. There has been quite an emigration to this place during the past year, mostly from Gunloek; there is seven or eight families from that place. The dry Bciauu litis ueuu Luc cause, us il ts impossible impos-sible to farm on the Santa Clara successfully suc-cessfully this season. But there is nothing no-thing to hinder the people here as water and land is so plentiful. This country is bound to fulfil the prophecy in regard to its being settledntp. Bun-kerville Bun-kerville is pretty well settled now, and land at Mesquite is being gobbled up fast; there is still a chance here, and my advice to those expecting to get homes here would be to see to it at ouce. There is between twenty-five and thirty families here at present. Let me say a word in regard to the people here. They have the name of being a good people, and I believe they deserve it. They are industrious, well-meaning well-meaning people, trying to do what good they can, both for the advancement of the work of the Lord, and in getting the necessaries of life. The people coming in here today will find it much better and easier to get anong than the first settlers did. There is plenty of hay at $0 per ton, and one can get anything -;u the line of food, store fi"i 01 aujiumg erse mat, is neectea as reasonable as at any other place this side of Cedar City. There is houses going up on every corner both here and at Bunkerville. There is plenty of brick, plenty of adobe clay, and lumber lum-ber within twenty-five miles on the east and fifty miles on the west; a good load of cedar or pine, either dry or green, can be gotten within two days. There is prospects of the mines of this section booming, which will help the county in rpgard to the money question, Mesquite will start work soon on a public house for the convenience of the people. Edwin S. Joxes. |