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Show FARMS AND TOWNS DESTROYED. The destruction of the Salt Lake road means a loss of millions to the railroad, but those who have suffered the greater loss, meas-used meas-used by their means, are the people of the little towns and the-owners the-owners of the truck farms in tho Moapa Valley, in Caliente and along the track of the flood. People have gone into the Moapa Valley of late years and purchased pur-chased land suitable for truck farming, paying $60 to $200 an acre. Today they are ruined financially. They have their farms but the farms are 100 miles from rail communication and the only profitable thing to raise is hay to be fed to cattle or sheep. Towns like Caliente are isolated and, with a change in the route of the Salt Lake road, will become deserted. Merchants and people with homes are facing the loss of all they possess. . , In the aggregate, the town people and the farmers will suffer a financial loss beyond that of the Clark road, and that is the most distressing dis-tressing feature of the havoc wrought by the wall of water which swept down the Meadow Valley wash on the first of the year. |