Show wind frost take high toll in san juan crops the mercury dropped to an official 28 23 degrees sunday night making the first real cold night of the season and doing considerable damage to bean crops in some sections fields that were late maturing matu were left black monday morning causing a potential loss to finers of a heavy percentage of their crop gardens throughout the county were da maged also with same soma of the tomato plants being killed in blan ding and most of the garden beans several days of intensive continuous winds have brought considerable sid erable damage to crops and soil too county agent E 0 biggs estimates that as high as 10 per cent of the bean were blown away on ridges and other areas where the shocks were exposed to the winds black clowda of dust drifted over the whole east side o of the county and extended over much of the western part of colorado carrying much of the fertility of the dry farms with it 11 shingles were torn from roof tops some windows were smashed limbs were torn from trees in the gale which reached its maximum damage sunday it equaled and perhaps surpassed in its devas tating effects any of the winds that harrasser harr assed ased the county resi i 2 5 dents last spring the one redeeming feature of the storms was that they did not last too long |