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Show I RAIN WORTH MUCH TO UTAH. "Monday's rain storm was a dow n-pour n-pour of wealth.'' That is the way a local canner described the precipitation, precipita-tion, which seems to h.-ne been general gen-eral over the northern part of ih state. The rain came at the right time to do great good Perhaps the most benefited class is the dry farmer The I moisture assures crop at a prio'i when wheat and oats are commanding big prices. In no part of Utah wa6 the rain more acceptable than in western Box Elder where there are hundreds of dry farmers. Trainmen on the line north of the lake who run into Ogden state that carloadB of farm machinery are being unloaded at Kelton and other points and this summer there should be a great harvest in Curlew Valley and the other dry farming districts dis-tricts which use the old Southern Pacific line a an outleL Our beet growers al6o are joining In thanksgiving and they too are looking look-ing forward to bounllful harvests as a direct result of the rain. While much of the world la trembling trem-bling where deep shadows are cast by storm clouds, in Utah the darkened sky and the storm convey only joy and happiness. |