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Show Crops Do Well in Spite of Abnormal Heat and Drought ABNORMALLY high temperatures have been registered through Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Arizona, Ari-zona, according to the weekly report of the weather bureau Issued yesterday by J. Cecil Alter, meteorologist in charge of the local office. In spite of this condition, crops, he reports, are doing well. The peaches are developing rapidly, and, though the weather bureau report re-port doesn't say so, the consumer mav hope for a slight reduction in that dish of delight, peach s a nd cr'-am. l'ea"hes have been like hay tht pa st week, for both have shown vrv fa vorablo development. The third hay crop of the season I 0 promises well throughout the state, and the weather has been particularly particular-ly propitious for the alfalfa seed crop. The pea crop is about three-fourths com pic ted at 1 leber, and the ban crop at Logan is being gathered. Range conditions run most or! the debit side, varying in condition from "tho driest ever, known" at 1'ocateilo. to "fair" at Manti. St. fleorgo and other points, with not a single report of "range-, good." Mountai n ranges are gradually deteriorating. The highest high-est porcipitation registered in the district dis-trict during the week was at the cast portal of Strawberry valley, whe.ro tin-re were inches. Otherwise tli'-re was little or none of the much-t:etd much-t:etd -d rains. |