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Show COLORADO Fruit Is Saved by the Liberal Use of Smudge Pots Denver, April It Reports this morning from the fruit raising district of the Grand Valley on the west slope anl from the Montroso and Pa-ouia Pa-ouia districts indicate that little real dumage wan done by last night's frost, and that the fruit crop of thse di'itrlcts, estimated to be worth, nearly near-ly $8,000,000 this year, has escaped, harm. Thousands of smudge pots around Grand Junction and Palisade, fed by hundreds of men and boys, who werfl aroused Inst night by fire alarm and whittles and hurried to the orchurds in automobiles and wagons, raised tho temperature around the imperiled trees from S to 10 decrees. Around Montrose anil other fruit districts tho trees wore not so for advanced and the damage done will amount simply to tho usual thlnninl out done by the ranchers themselves. |