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Show SOUTHWESTERN NOTES. ! Around Piochc and Bulliouville I . Rabbits Fating Down Utah ! Greasewood. u j On the desert, between Sulphur, and Deseret stations, the herds of antelope are plentiful. Work is progressing rapidly at Bullion-ville Bullion-ville on the new leaching works for the Raymond & Ely tailings. Considering the large number of men employed at Bullionville, the town is quite dull and liable to remain so for several sev-eral months to come. The w'ages paid by the Bullionville Smelting company to its employes are as follows : Masonsj$5 per day ; carpenters, $3.50 and $4; laborers. $2.50. y The social relations at present existing between the Mormons of Panaca and the Gentiles of Bullionville, says a correspondent, correspon-dent, are good. The farmers drink our whisky and we court their girls. The rabbits at Cedar City, Utah, have taken it upon themselves to play the part of Destroying Angels. About four miles north of Cedar City, at what is known as Cedar bottoms, they have destroyed all the vegetation, even eating the grease-wood grease-wood to the level of the ground. At Fort Johnson, six miles south of Beaver, they destroyed fifteen tons of grain. For the past few months, Sam Godbe, formerly superintendent of the Cave mine of Utah, has been taking samples from several of the mines around Pioche, says the Record, with a view to the, purchase of some good prospects for the smelting company at Bullionville. We understand that Mr. Godbe, who is an expert miner, has a high opinion of Pioche as a mineral district, and if the old town takes on a new life, as we believe it will through the shrewdness and ability of this gentleman, our citizens will owe him a debt of gratitude. grati-tude. . , - . ' " A Panaca (Nev.) correspondent of the Pioche Record says : " We have been having hav-ing a kind of religious picnic down here since so many of the Lord's chosen came over from Zion to work amongst the ungodly un-godly at Bullionville. They come over to Panaca on Sunday and join in with our people in jawing the United States gov-' eminent and destroying its armies. Here in Nevada it is the land of the free and j the home of the brave. Our men unfasten un-fasten their collar buttons and turn themselves them-selves loose, as it were, for they can speak as loud, tread the national flag under foot and do as they choose in this State. Nevada Ne-vada is a sovereign State and no contemptible con-temptible U.S. officials dare" to come over here to arrest us Mormons, and our own officials fear to do so, for next year an election will take place in this county, and on that occasion they will be coppered copper-ed should they attempt to interfere with us people of the Lord. |