The record-union., 1894-04-27
RAINING TWENTY DOLLAR PIECES.
Farmers Made Glad by the Generous
April Showers.
Nearly q Half-Inch of Rain Falls to
Rejuvenate the Dropping
Crops of Grain.

"Every drop of that rain is worth
twenty-dollar piece % was well-known
granger's salutation yesterday to a mer-
chant as he drove up street through the
heavy shower of rain that fell about 8
O'Clock in the afternoon.
Indeed. all the farmers who came to
the city during the storm were in happy
mood, their faces wearing broad smiles.
One man, who has but 800 acres of grow
ing grain, declared that he could figure
out more than $500 benefit already, and
that was before the heaviest shower OF
the day occurred.
Every body congratulated his neighbor
over the good fortune that Providence
had bestowed on the people, and judging
from remarks heard on the streets one
would suppose that every lawyer and
doctor and storekeeper in town was a
granger. so knowingly did they talk OF
growing crops and the great benefits to
result from the generous showers.
The six or seven weeks of drought that
had prevailed, aggravated by parchlng
north winds, had aroused such feeling
of alarm among farmers and business
men that few could be found three days
ago who believed there would be any
harvest at all, even in the favored valley
of the Sacramento, where there has never
yet been crop failure. Now. however,
all is changed. The crops were not so far
advanced but that they were susceptible
OF benefit by the rains OF the last two
days, and these-with the cool and cloudy
weather prevailing-are regarded as am
pie TO insure fairly good results.
On the uplands the hay crops may not
be materially benefited by these late
showers, but there will be enough more
hay cut on the lowlands TO nearly, it not
quite, compensate for the loss.
WEATHER BUREAU REPORT.
The Weather Bureau reports show the
highest and lowest temperatures yester-
day to have been $50 and 48', with fresh
to brisk southerly winds and cloudy
weather prevailing.
The barometrical readings at A. NJ. and
P. NJ. were 29.9S and 29.SS inches, re-
spectively.
The highest and lowest temperatures
one year ago yesterday were 690 and Az.
and one year ago to-day 60' and 49,. with
.04 of an inch of rain.
The rainfall yesterday was 20 of an
inch, making "a of an inch for the storm,
IA. 19 inches for the season, as against %
inches for last season. Local signs do not
indicate much more rain-nothing more
than showers-but even showers, If ire
quent enough, are valuable.
The Weather Bureau reports received
at P. NJ. show the rainfall to have been
for the preceding twelve hours as follows
at the places named: Red Bluff 20 of an
inch, Sacramento .18 of an inch. Eureka
"a of an inch and San Francisco 20 of an
inch.
The lowest barometer readings were
1856 inches at Fort Candy, off the mouth
OF the Columbia River, and the highest
29.9S at San Francisco. This ought to in
sure brisk to high southerly winds.
THE STORM GENERAL.
North and east of Sacramento yester-
days storm was quite widespread. 1t
rained along the Sierra Nevada, below the
snow belt, and from Blue Canyon to
Truckee it was showing. with fall Of
twenty inches. The wind was blowing
hard.
Reports received at the Southern Pa
cific Company's local office during the
day and last evening were to the effect
that the rainfall all through the Sacra-
mento Valley, along the line of the Ore
gon Railroad, was quite heavy and sulfi-
cient for all purposes.