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Show M OO M MOISTURE PROMISES B BIG CROPS. H Last season Utah farms lost nun- t dreds of thousands of dollars because H a drouth, prevailed. Weber county H) suffered a loss of not less than a H quarter of a million dollars, and all H this region, owing to the scarcity of Hj "water for irrigation, -was injured. Hj The storms of the past two weeks H have been so widespread and so much H moisture has fallen in the mountains H that this year's "water supply is as- H In southern Idaho, particularly in H the Rexburg district, the snow fall H has been tho heaviest in years. On H the Yellowstone branch, seven feet H of snow has blocked the railroad. H The whole intermounfaln country has- been visited by tho storm Thojdryj fanners are rejoicing. With wheat at $1 a bushel on (board the cara at Ogden, and conditions favorable: favor-able: for a big crop, the dry farmers are in a fair way to be on the top wave of prosperity. |