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Show UTAH ICE CROP I BEST IN YEARS Ogden Company Has 16-inch Harvest; Other Sections Fare Well SALT LAKE, March 14. Because of the abnormally cold weather during dur-ing January and February' Utah's ice crop Is the best for many years, ac-, cording to J. Qaoll Alter, moteorlog-tat moteorlog-tat In charge of the Suit Ike weather bureau. Cutting began at St Charles, on Bear lake. Fobruary 7. on twelve Inches of good, clear lc but by the HOth the thickness waa fourteen : Inches; cutting ranged over a longer period of tlnio nt Laketown, whero the dairymen obtain ice in thlcknenn' most suitable for their convenience at different limes; it ranged from eleven to sixteen Inches thick during tiro month of February. While the Ogden City Ire company did not harvest a crop of natural ice, the Ice formed sixteen Inches thick and the quality as bettor than nt any time In the past ten yearc Cutting began t Kayaville "n January 22 on fourteen-inch ice. Which by, February 1 had become eighteen Inchea thick; at the end of February a seven-Inch second cmp had formed, all being frozen from beneath without flooding. The harvest wan taken at Morgan during mid-January, being sixteen in he ihlrk at the greatest time and place; tho quality was the best for several year'. The lee crop of Eiebor was from twelve to fifteen inches thick when tutting began January 20: a second cutting was taken from some ponds early In February ten Inches thick Tho largest Ice crop in many years waa taken at Deserct, the thickness being fiom ten ti sixteen Inches, from the middle of January to the middle of February. Twenty-inch ice was taken at Kooiharem late In January. Fourteen inches of good ice was taken from l'iute rOMITVOlr lato in January, being the best crop obtained I in many yearn. The cutting of ice began at ColtOU January on thlr- ' l tccn-inch ice, and ended February 6 i with twenty-one inch Ice. being about i four Inches thicker than the average j for the paat four years, the quality I i er the ice la eai i ik-nt. being oUdUand claar. i I lie amount of ice harvested and) stored at Duchtano Waa the greatest J crop ever obtained, and u was of tin- ' uauall) good quality it averaged eighteen eigh-teen to twenty Inches, thick) the cutting cut-ting being dono during the lat three Weeks, of January- No ice was taken 1 at Green Kiver. as the uuallty was i reported to be very poor, though from j four to eight Lhchefl formed. No Ice ' was harvested at Moab, though shore ' j fee six Inches tbi- k funned on the ! river, tho dam above the electric I lighting plant carried ice about thirty inches In thickness though owing to Its Isolation in the canyon non was cut. |