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Show FROST PLAYS HAVOC I WITrlJRUIT CROPl Peaches Apples (3 rapes, Pears, i and Prunes Mill 1. nn i:ip(t Per Cent Loss. Neer before has a May frost done such havoc In Utah. Locally It got nbout eighty per cent of the npples, peaches, pears, grapes, prunes nnd strawberries. Many orchards visited wore a total loss, with probably a scattering on some of tho trees. Near the mountain the fiost seema not to have been so severe James II. Walker Walk-er has three acres of peaches that havo not been hurt nt all. Several apple orchaids havo a fair supply, but these are tho great exception. Peas, radishes and afnlfa were f i ozMi down, nnd potatoes and beans arc black. Young beets were nllghtly Injmed. On Prowi Ilench the los.i was nl most complete. Rvou the favored belt, usually piotected by the canyon brcczo Is almost n total loss. W. II, Homer visited ten peach orchards without finding n slnglo peach. Geo. Tomllson who hns 12 acres of berries ber-ries will loso thousands of dollars. Ono thrcc-aero tract on which ho had running water suffered but sight In-Jury. In-Jury. Other parts of tho state wcie also hit hard. In Ilrlgham City, tho poaches poach-es are only slightly hurt. In Davis County many had planted out their young tomatoes all of which wcro frozen. This will bo n great loss as ; it Is now too Into to gel more young plants. |