Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-05-08
the GREAT RAINFALL.
A Downpour Everywhere in the
state-A Great Surprise and q
Great Blessing Young Flood
What the People Say.

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The rain which commenced about mid
night ON Saturday continued with sligh
intermissions up to yesterday noon. Tn,
precipitation has been somewhat irregu
lar. In some localities the fall was won
derful. In the cafions Of Cahuenga MIR
Doss reports fall Of five inches; at New
hall Joe Leighton reports three inches
and still raining; at San Fernando aboui
three inches; in the Cahuenga valley Mr.
Seward Cole gives two and three-fourth.
inches; at Sepulveda Station, Mr.. Grow
reports two inches; at Pasadena, Mr.
Mills reports two inches; at San Marino
Mr.. J. M. Tiernan reports two and three
fourths inches, and Mr.. Abbott Kinney
the same at Kinneloa, with another
shower at each place yet to be meas
ured, at Compton, three and hall
inches; at Wilmington, an inch and a
half; Anaheim and Santa Ana, about the
same; lei Monte, three inches, accom-
panied with thunder, lightning and hail,
which Judge Harmon says was the hard
est rain that he has seen in twenty years;
at Tustin City, Mr.. p. Potts reported
over an inch aud still falling; Pomona
captured an inch and half and Ontario
and Cucamonga the same, with another
shower to measure! Mr.. Ducommun, in
the city, two md 5-lOOths inches; Mr..
O. Ii. Bliss, two fortyeight, with one
shower yet to hear from; the Signal Ser
vice an inch and 69-l0Oths; the Normal
School the same; at Cienega and Cent?
nela, about two inches; San Bernartlino
has an inch and quarter, with old San
Bernardino half an inch more; Downey
City, two inches; onthe Nadeau Ranches,
three inches were reported. As to the
EFFECT OF THE STORM
Opinions wers various. Judge Turner,
of Eewhall, said the rain would do a
great deal Of good at that place and save
q thousand acres Of grain, and several
thousand acres iu the San Fernando
Valley. Mr.. Grow, from the San RAJ
fael pronounced the storm a glorious
thing for the country; and ex-Super-
visor Harmon. OF Ell Monte, said it
was worth million dollars to Los An.
geles county. Mr.. Seward Cole, Of
Cahuenga, said that he had intended to
cut his grain crop for hay and had just
cut down 1876 acres for that purpose, but
since the rain he should leave the bal
ance Of 400 acres to ripen for grain.
Hammel & Denker report that some of
their early sown wheat on the Rodeo de
las Aguas was lodged by the storm, but
that it would not be injured from ripen-
ing. Supervisors Levy, from Downey, and
Moesser, Of Santa Ana, say that the
benefit to the corn crop from this down
pour will be very great. Mr.. H.
G. Weston, Of Compton, says the
alfalfa crop will be doubled in some
places by the deluge that came down in
that part of the county. Mr.. r. Nadeau
considers the storm of vast value to the
country. Thomas A. Carey, the great tree
grower. said the rain was worth million
dollars, and would insure wonderful
growth to the so, 900 trees planted in the
Winter and Spring, and also to the
millions of new grape vines. At Tulare
heavy thunderstorm with hailstones
prevailed on Sunday.
A few croakers complained that their
new cut hay would be damaged, and
weeds would appear in their vineyards,
and they would have to shake out their
hay and cut the weeds with hoe, and
would not have any time to loaf around
town or go a fishing; bat the croakers
were in weak minority and their
lachrymose walls were drowned in the
jubilations Of the majority, who sang
doxologies in earnest. In the noun
tains and the San Gorgonio Pass the
storm continued all day yesterday,
which will insure sturdy flow Of the
trout streams during the summer.
Altogether, the phenomenon will be re-
membered as the great Summer rain
of 1881"