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Show I HTM STOCKS IN GOOD CHUN -Winter Ranges Fair; Drying, Weather Brings Benefits 17 2 Livestock generally 1e in good cou , dition and thfl winter ranges art? fair 'arrordinj? in ih" we. kl. w.aiher, crop j.nnd range report Issued yesterday i J Cecil Alter, in charge of Hie Bait! Lake office of the I'nited States wea'b j.er bureau. I The bulletin follows: There has been some drying weather weath-er this week which WB favorable for, I outdoor activity In general, though ! : some additional rain fell In western' "i'tah and sugar beet digging. potato gathering, sriin seeding and threehlng , liave been retarded and the aolls con tinufl 6oft in many valle8 The early1 'sown grain continue to flourish, and I the farm pastures, the winter raDge ; and the livestock on them are gener ally in pood condition. At Richmond 0 62 of an Incb pret ipltation fell and tie bee) ielde are still very wet. "Beet and potato digging contniue -at Tooele. Most of the apple crop has been shipped from Elberta and the grain Ll largely threshed Alfalfa seed 6 threshing from the stack la progress ling alOWl) at Deseret, but cloud weather has retarded the drying of the xposed crop. Some hay is still out at Kanosh and It has been too wet for potat t digging; the early s-own grain Is look ag fine, but it has been too wet for plantinc during the past thirty days I The fat cattle have been shipped from 'Milfor dand sheep are near the win :cr range. Six cars oMamba Ideft Mo na on the 15th. stock being In good "'condition; winter Krain is Improved. .Snow Is four Inches deep at Mldtiioe land no cattle sales are being made "Cattle have hen driven to the win .ter ranges from Emery, but range feed is scarce, as the storms came too late, feed la also about pone in the fields: e'he snow In tch mountains is above normal. The stormy weather caught a Few crops In the fields at Duchesne, - hough the damage was small. Highways: Salt Lake City, bad off the main grades; Tooele, fair but wet; -Elberta, good: Peseret, improving; I Kanosh, soft; Modena. Improving bti' -till very bad; St. George, good; Wldt jjsoe, very bad, Emery, drying slowly " oo - Tanned bides of 6 TO steers were I frused In the construction of n 3000 jfpound transmission belt In Phlladel-I Phlladel-I Ephla |