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Show Drouth Is Broken; Heavy Rains Fall Following a drouth, which lasted from October last until the past week, Sanpete and Sevier valleys were visited vis-ited with frequent drenching rains, and a long threatening drouth was broken. More than a week ago the first showers visited the valleys and practically every day since that time has seen showers, some of which have been heavy. All the waterfall, however, how-ever, has resulted in untold good and the fear of a shortage of water has banished, as the daily rainfall and the candition of the storage reservoirs now gives assurance of an abundance of water to carry the crops to maturity. ma-turity. Until the coming of the storms which, by the way, have reached from Panguitch on the south to Moroni Mor-oni on the north, embodying the watersheds wa-tersheds of the territory feeding the fields for the sugar beet, wheat and other farm products many growers were skeptical and hesitated about planting. Particularly does this appi to sugar beets. I he rainfall, has given great encouragement, and farmers are now rushing beet seed planting. Tabulation of the rainfall where gauges are maintained, show highly encouraging. At Salina the total rainfall rain-fall up to Tuesday evening registered 1.21 inches. At Spearmint, where the Gunnison Sugar company keeps a close tab of the precipitation, .73 of an inch was recorded. At Moroni, where many beets are grown, the precipitation pre-cipitation during the week's storms showed a total of 1.02 inches. In the mountains surrounding Panguitch, and from which much of the storage water wa-ter comes from the Otter Creek and Piute Reservoirs, and at Fishlake, heavy snowfalls were reported. Since last October the precipitation has only been about 50 per cent normal, nor-mal, but with the rains coming at this opportune time and indications of further rains, it is believed that the precipitation will be about n ;r-mal. ;r-mal. Not only are the agriculturists ;md garden raisers rejoicing, but stockmen stock-men with herds yet on the deserts, are in high glee. The rains, which reached the west deserts, have p it conditions in fine shape and stockmen stock-men report that the grazing had been benefitted sufficiently to last until the herds are moved to the mountain summer ranges. |