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Show DAMAGE TO BEETS IS DONE BY CLOUDBURST Special to The Tribune. GARLAND, Sent, 3. A cloudburst occurred oc-curred here yesterday which caused thousands of dollars of damage to crops in the vicinity. Some of the sugar beet fields were covered with several inches of mud, and it Is problematical whether or not they will be able to come through. Tho storm broke near the J. Y. Rich farm and a stream of water waist-deep ran down the mountainside and into the irrigation lateral, wnich the L tan-Idaho Sugar company built to conduct the water from the main canal to its land. The lateral was inadequate to hoid the water and it swept over the banks and Into the main canal. Tho main canal banks also gave way and the water swept over tho fields of sugar beets. The damage dam-age done to crops has not yet been estimated. |