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Show cesws being found three miles of his house. There has been two perliminary surveys for a railroa 1 through here but to all appearance they will remain re-main perlimiuary for some time. Diptheria swept like a blasting scurge through our town last year. There were quite a number of deaths! resulting therefrom, there is considerable con-siderable sickness this year. The iej;bi r I, of are kicking! very hard because our semi-weekly mail goes out bef re it e mes in. j That is, to oblige the mail carriers the mail that is suppose 1 to leave here ui Wednesday leaves here on Tues lav. meets the incoming Wed-I nesday mail, exch nges somewhere' about the summit, and each pony ' rider returns h i ne. Nobody will deny this is a very nice arrangement 1 for them. The leopL hive peti: - i ioned for a change of programme i in vain. j RABBIT VALLEY NOTES. The settlement of Loa now has large dimensions; though the houses ' are scattered over a wide area. Threshing is not yet completed, 111 our valley, but to say that there has been 150,000 bushels of grain raised rais-ed is not to over estimate it. Tom Blackburn, councillor to the Bishop, has just buried the last of three interesting children. He has the sympathy of the community. Ticaboo gold mines, 15 miles be- below the Dandy crossing, on the 5 Heniy mountain, has been shut down J bat a California Co have putttpSso, x 000 dollars to further develope the 1 mine. Work will be resumed imme- di.itely. ; The Blue Valley people our ' once ' humble neighbors are fast becom- ming a prosperous and independant 'I people. Everything of a semi-trop- I ical nature can be grown. This year j they have brought loads of grapes, peaches, and molasses of a superior j quality up into our grain and beef J countrs for exchange. Perhaps I J! should h ve said once beef country, ' for the sheep were in here so thick last year as to almost blot out the ?? stock indu try. One man lost six- 1 teen head of milch cows, the care- ' " ' , 1 u ' 1 |