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Show UTAH'S FRUIT CROP IS THREATENED DESTRUCTION Severe Frost Promised To-night; To-night; Farmers Warned to Build Smudge Fires and Fight Enemy. There is reason to fear that the fruit crop of the State will be greatly damaged dam-aged by frost tonight. , Local Forecast Official R. J. Hyatt Is sending out warnings of a heavy frost tonight to the agriculturists that they may build smudge fires and in other ways protect their fruit. An area of high pressure has made its appearance on the Pacific coast and from reports received at the weather bureau is traveling this way. . If the weather clears-by night the prospects are for a heavy frost. The storm that broke over the inter-mountain inter-mountain region Saturday night and continued-until this morning, was one of the most severe that has been experienced ex-perienced here in the middle of May. Saturday morning the weather bu-' bu-' reau forecasted showers for the day and Sunday with freezing temperatures in the higher districts. The forecast was correct as far as the weather bureau is concerned, but it hardly prepared the public for such a downpour of rain, snow and sleet as actually occurred or for the freezing temperatures that were experienced early Sunday morning and last night. The records of the bureau show that ' ' f - O0 WARMER WEATHER, IS PROMISED TOMORROW. ' The storm has passed away to the East and the weather will Improve between now and tomorrow. I look for a heavy frost to occur tonight all over this section, but believe the temperature will be considerably higher tomorrow. R. J". HYATT, LOCAL FORE- CAST OFFICIAL, TO THE TELE- GRAM. ' from the entire storm .40 of an inch of precipitation was received. While this is not the greatest rainfall that has been recorded at this time of year, it is nevertheless a precipitation of unusual un-usual occurrence. The temperature dropped to 33 degrees de-grees Sunday morning at about 6 o'clock. A glance at the records of former for-mer years shows that never before has such a low temperature been recorded on May 17th. This morning the thermometer again registered freezing temperatures, but they were not as low as yesterday. At 6 o'clock the minimum was reached when 36 degrees w as recorded. The storm was more severe north of Salt Lake than it was here. Reports from Pocatello received thls morning show that .90 of an inch of moisture fell there yesterday and that the temperature tem-perature went as low as 32 degrees. At Modena in the southern part of this State 26 degrees was recorded. It is estimated that about two Inches of snow fell in the mountains, u , |