Show stora CROPS K I 1 loss of fruit in western states wih will be 11 it very ae heavy a vy i I 1 i i lp denver april 21 21 A sharp drop in 7 temperature followed the snow storm last night fourteen above zero being recorded by the tile weather bureau in both denver and pueblo and fruits of all kinds in eastern colorado was effectually nipped iri the bud grand junction unction the center of the more important fruit fault growing district west of the continental divide the temperature fell to 30 degrees and the weather observer there 1 reported that the condition condition of fruit was grace grave while the damage to fruit in this state may amount to se several million dollars dollina dol lira nearly all other crops will be greatly bone bene fitted by the moisture I 1 A remarkable feature of the snow storm was that it was more severe on the low lands than in the mountain mountains while the precipitation co covered a largo large area including all of colorado wyoming and parts of south dakota nebraska texas and new mexico the snow waa was almoas entirely confined to the eastern slope of the rocky mountains and extended from lander wyo and rapid city south dakota on the north to santa fe N M and roswell N M on the bouth south the colorado state line on the east waa was practically the limit of sno snow in that direction and only a light snow occurred west of the continental divide the storm originated in the north and worked ita its way slowly to the south passing out of the state late yesterday frederick C brandenburg district forecaster who estimated the snow fall in denver at 17 inches said today that though the storm was remarkable in this olty city for april it was by no means unprecedented on april 21 22 and 23 1886 1885 the records show a snow fall of 32 inches 23 inches falling on the last day of the storm the only weather bureau station in the mountains of this state Is located at corona on the moffat rood rued there only tour four inches fell during the late storm at the railroad offices it was stated today that traffic wan was not seriously impeded by the show storm as all mountain roads are prepared to meet such emergencies with giant rotary enow snow plows and that no trains were delayed over an ali hour or two it was feared that heavy snow falling on the old snow of last winter might start slides to running but in the section odthe state where ab snow nb slides are most frequent the snow was light and no slides have been reported on the aholo it Is to asserted that while the storm was heavier than any of the entire winter and borne damage Is reported the resulting good will offset the loss many told fold report reports from nebraska Neb omaha april 21 As a result of tho the unprecedented weather that prevailed during the greater part of the month of march and the freezing weather and heavy snow fall of th the e last few days early faulta fructo such as peaches plums apricots cherries and blackberries in this section have been injured but the general opinion among those who have the best means of informing themselves Is that the damage Is not as great as has been reported indeed many are of the opinion that while early fruits have been injured and in some instances completely killed aad possibly some of the later varieties have been hurt the benefits resulting to the grain crops from the snow storm more than offsets tho the damage our reports from points along the lines of our road are not unfavorable said G wl loomis assistant general genel manager of the burlington today the fruit in tho the southern part of nebraska which the unusual warm weather in march had brought to an advanced state of development Is reported to have been pretty badly damaged but little or no damage Is reported from points north the snow however did a vast amount of good ground in fine condition for other farm to winter wheat and has put the crops similar reports have been received at the general offices of the northwestern railway the snow fall wag war worth millions to the state said C F Rod bodington rodington ington clerk to general manager bidwell Bl dwell our reports do not indicate hat that the fruit has been much hurt so far as can now be told our work has to do with weather conditions condition sand and not to their effect on crops said forecaster A L welsh of the local weather bureau but from such reports as have come in I 1 f i do not believe conditions are aa as bad as they been reported early fruit has been hurt but it is I 1 believe far from true that the fruit crop has been destroyed st the record tor for warm weather in march was broken twice during last month and the average for the month waa was far above that tor for the 37 years since the bureau was established but the record for april BO so far has been very little below normal county commissioner solomon one 0 of f the leading ore hardistea har dista of this section said 1 I estimate that the hard bard freeze of last thursday killed about one third of the early fruit up TIP to that time I 1 am confident the fruit wag not hurt huft at all it is ho however Weyer too early to eay say positively what the effect of 0 the recent cold weather haa ban been traffic 0 K in montana S st t paul april 21 according to officials of the northern pacific and the great northern rall railroads roads there hava have been no snow storms gioris along these lines in the west for several weeks particularly west of the rocky mountains general superintendent horn HOM of the pacific railway when asked it if the snowstorms snow storms of recent date had in any way wy inconvenienced them la ill the west said we have not had lad a sign of know snow along alfonc our lines liner in the tar far west vest since I 1 february with the possible exception of a mere trace at livingston mont we do not anticipate any more trouble in that direct direction lon traffic superintendent watrous of the great northern said we have mot had a report of snow along our line in weeks the heavy snows of the past winter throughout north dakota and montana are expected to be of great benefit to crops especially in regions where there Is only a slight rainfall during the summer months utah escaped the storm salt lake april 21 interviews with railroad officials and with local Fo forecaster roter hyatt of the united states weather bureau show that the heavy snowa snows which at the close of last week prevailed east of the re rocky recky mountains did not visit the country to the west of the great continental divide there were scattered snow flurries in utah and in other far western states but the tall fall was light and did not impede railroad traffic general lanager qa nager bancroft bancraft of the harriman Harrl man lines oregon short line union pacific and southern pacific says that not the slightest delay to passenger or freight traffic has been experienced by those roads the same report was made by superintendent in van housen of the salt lake route san pedro LOB los angeles and salt lake colonel 1 I A benton general passenger agent of the denver and rio grande says that his road experienced no trouble ib lt utah and aid that practically no delay delily was caused in colorado dalte the unusually I 1 hevy heavy enow which prevailed gener ally over the state n |