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Show BELIEVE FRUIT . I Unseasonable Weather Causes H Some Alarm Among Or- IB chardists in Northern and H Central. Parts of State. H GROWERS MAY USE H THEIR SMUDGE POTS H Temperature at Time of Clear- H ing Up Will Determine j Effect of Snow on H Blossoms. wHa AT i.ln o'clock yesterday morning mSm the mist and heuvy clouds that H hung over the eity Thursday fiB' night developed Into a. steady fall X8 of ruin and at 0 o'clock changed RlB Into a heavy precipitation of wet snow, OR which continued throughout the morn- UB Ing. In the afternoon n light rain, mixed jWE with slcct. fell steadily until S o'clock Sfll last night, when tho sides cleared mo- RI mentarily only to become clouded over BUHHf again, -which condition prevailed until a MM late hour. With the exception of May ::. oSSbI yesterday was the coldest May 0 uWl on record in this stato. The minimum Wft temperature was reached at noon yes- Hfil tcrday. when the thermometer fell to 'AH fflBl .degrees. Yesterday's record at the SSti weather bureau also showed that nearly (3ff sei'cn inches or snow fell yesterday. Hfl though it was wet and, for the most Km part, melted as soon as it fell. J, Cccit Mr3 Alter, acting director of the local weather fl j bureau, said yesterday that the weather B 1 conditions, as evidenced iu this city. SB 5 prevailed only throughout northern Utah Q 1 and as far south as Provo. Hi n Fruit Growers Earned. 3 Jj The greatest anxiety yesterday and last fuflfl nlsht was felt by the fruitgrowers of vflBI the ' state and the "weather forecasters mS warned the fruit men to have smudgo mBc pots in readiness to save the crops. AJ- iZMft frcd H. Thlessen, director of the Salt HW Lake weather bureau, went lo Provo to nflw aid the orchardmen and to direct the HjK battle against Jack Frost. Mr- Thies- 1 IBS j sen was constantly In telegraphic com- ' jjHE munlcatlon with distant points yesterday BIB In order to catch the ilrst warning of an I Bfrfi approaching cold snap. IHrc J. Edward Taylor, state horticultural lifflfffi inspector, and other authorities said yes- ImBbI terday that the exact effect of the IflaljC! weather upon the fruit crops could not imRx bo ascertained until this inornin. Ac- MMlfl cording to Mr, Taylor, everything de- JMHW ponded upon the manner in which the iffij weather cleared, and he added that the 8mB1 fruit of this stale- would be safe, with (h tho aid of smudge pots, until tho ther- 1 9K5 momctcr dropped below i5 degrees. 81 BP From barometrical indications yester- flmS day he gave it ns his opinion that the SI-Srs clcarup would come gradually, leaving IftRjjl sufficient moisture in tho air after the 8h storm to prevent damaging frost. Re- MSB ports that he received yesterday from ISflBr outlying districts . continued this csti- fflijS' mate, which he had made from local flftll Result Is Uncertain, Slftw Horticultural experts of the city and IImM county wore reluctant yosterduy to ex- futHfiSfj press opinions as to the probable effect on RBfUl! the fruit crop of the snowstorm of yes- WHffijm terday. They united In tho statement PlHffi that a positive opinion could not bo JffinFB formed earlier than 3 o'clock today, dc- ttfl&p'! pending entirely on conditions -late lost JBMfl night and In the early hours of today. 'ffltfiy .T. C. Stay, horticultural Inspector for mBEfM Salt Lake county and a recognized au- nKM The fruit conditions up to lha al evening of Maj' 3 remain good as to 'Bllljfcl most varieties. The apricots and TOanfc swoet cherries suTored the most llframti with Ihe last spell of frost, but a IbSKlff good crop of these varieties remains jcflffin? in xnaJiy loc-alitlcs. This eoudltlon )3Wwf may continue If the night remains raK cloudy and stormy, but, on the other hand, If it ulosirs up before 0 o'clock flmfflii tomorrow morning it will go hard on j tho stone fruit, as the pcaohe3 and Nllm cherries arc in full bloom. j iffijWyj It will require a very cold snap to nRj affect tho npplcs, as thoy are not , figtffea out uu yet. Tho pouns will not stand r25iirl as much frost as thcupplcs. . It will awllN "be imposslblo to forecast the out- W3fs$ffts come of this storm until the weather clears and It depends entirely on flil what time It clears up. lllfl.'if'I Tho snowstorm of today has broken ninny limbs from trees car- llfflt'jff'' rylng. foliage, most of them being rlelifHL shade trees rJSftW |