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Some time since Messrs. Williams and Crocker cut a track from [[Violet Town|Violet Town]] through the [[Strathbogie Ranges|Strathbogie ranges]] into Dry Creek near d Mr Pemberton's store (an old resident in that locality). The truck opens up land that has as yet been unexplored excepting by stock riders, boundary men, &e. Messrs Williams and Crocker have done n great benefit to the free selectors in cutting the track, as it is a district of good land. The track also does away with the terror of being lost in the is Strathbogie ranges, which has always been. a drawback to intending selectors of that splendid country. The land generally speaking is composed of a rich red loam, heavily a timbered but with good open flats. The land will fully pay the selector for his trouble and expense of clearing, and there is abundance of water and grass. The traffic also will be an other inducement, as all the numerous produce from Mansfield, Jamieson, and Wood's Point, and surrounding districts will come by this track. Mr. Williams has driven through a in his buggy with two of his children. The distance to Mr Pemberton's store is about 16 a miles; from thence to Doon about three a miles, and then the main road to Mansfield. Mr Williams describes it as a good track, and with little expense can be made a road which any waggon or dray can travel.