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Show Fruit Prospects Still Bright Sciere Frosts In Other Purls of tho State Seem to lime Touched Plea-snut Plea-snut Groie .Hiiro Lightly, Though Doing Considerable Damage to Some Frulls. Tho recent fronts Bccm to havo como In spots, so'iuo districts being nffected much worse- than others. Locally Lo-cally tho damngo has not been very sorlous, though couBldernblo dnmngo bus been dono to early strawberries, apricots and cherries. Hcd currants appear to hnvo been cooked and will bo almost n total loss. In mod Instances In-stances the peaches havo not been Injured, but what they will havo to bo thinned considerably, no generally speaking, tho peaches will sufTor no loss. Apples and pcara aro about lu tho same class with the peaches and should yield a normal crop. Rasp-borrlt'H, Rasp-borrlt'H, not being In bloom, of course, weio not Injured. Tho frost was so sovcro In Rich-Held Rich-Held that It froze tho sugar beets and alfalfa and all tho fruit. In tho south end of Utah county, reports ro that the fruit crop will b; an almost total loss, SpilngvlUo and Maplelou aro hit hnrd, and Provo bench has not Biiffori'il so badly for years. Salt Lake county appears to havo suffered less than Utah county, but lu Davis county there swnis to have been about tlfty por cent loss, and at Kaysvlllo Ice formed u quarter of an Inch think on May 1st. Dox Elder county reports that It will havo a normal year. Grand Junction, which ts considered a competitor or uinu, reports little, damage dono nnd cv. pects a bumper crop. Further onst reports aro that tho peach crop In Gcorgln and Texas will bo tho biggest In their hlotory. This will nlno effect tho Utah prices. |