The Archive · 1902

Activity of Prospectors

Tu the meantime prospectors are going here and there looking for something to exploit. Among others a jauntily-dressed Japanese was seen going up the bill the other day, evidently intent on photographs which will later be displived. for the delectation of itinerant shoppers.

Drought.

Unfortunately for the general situation. the wheat crop is very poor. Very little rain has fallen since last August. "Wells are getting dry, and not a little distress will follow unless there shall be rain soon.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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