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Show COLD NIGHTS GOOD FOR FRUIT Yesterday, for the first time since last fall, did the snow break up In Ogden valley sufficiently to cause the people there, to think of spring, but last night theie was a recurrence of cold weather and Mall Carrier Smith says teams wont over tho roads with ease this morning nnd the heavy -wagons moved along as if they were on roads of ice. The snow In the valley is still ton inches deep and there has been so little thawing weather 30 far that tho streams emptying Into tho Ogden riv-or riv-or are as low as they were al the be-ginning be-ginning of the winter months. There If. no prospect of high water for soma time to come and It Is stated by those familiar with local weather condition that it will be two or three weeks before be-fore sleighs can be sot aside for wagons. wag-ons. Tho cold nights in the mountains where there is much snow will he tho means of conserving tho waters of the Ogden river watershed for use in tho dry season when 'it is most needed for irrigation purposes, It Is stated by the fruit men, too, that the pre- , vailing cold nights will be the meaus of saving the crop this year Tho nights being cold the buds of the fruit trees will not begin to swell until the danger time of early frosts has pass. ( ed. I 00 I |