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Show FRUIT DAMAGED BY WIND STORM A strong east wind which swept through the Mapleton and Springville Spring-ville fruit growing district Thursday Thurs-day afternoon and evening did considerable damage to the fruit crop, members of the fruit growers' grow-ers' association have reported.' Cherry, apricot, pear and apple trees were the most severly damaged, dam-aged, the ground, being covered with green fruit, growers reported. In some orchards an estimated 25 percent of the crop was lost. Fruit growers had approximately approximate-ly a 60 percent cherry crop before the windstorm and it was estimated estimat-ed that at least 25 percent of the crop was lost in addition to considerable con-siderable damage done to the fruit trees. Most of the peach trees escaped damage, the wind seeming to strike the higher fruit trees. Several large pine and other decorative trees were uprooted. On the city farm in Hobble Creek canyon, operated by R. H. Fackrell, the wind uprooted a Cottonwood Cot-tonwood tree about 90 feet tall. In falling, it practically demolished demol-ished two large apple trees and its roots tore a hole in the ground more than four feet in diameter. |