The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-23
OGDEN DEPT.
RERHLD BRHNcH OFFICE,
5l3 UTAH LOAN g. TRUST BUILDING.
Ogden. September %.
WHAT THE FROST DID.

The heavy frost of Saturday night
was quite general throughout Weber
county, and 1T is known that heavy
damages have been sustained by gar
deners and horticuIturists in most of
the precincts. Yesterday reports were
collected by wire or other method from
every section, and from almost every
precinct of the county. The precincts
not heard from are so nearly located
and conform so generally in topography
and other conditions to other precincts
which have reported, that the data is
practically sufficient to indicate the
scope of the damage done throughout
the entire county. The reports show
that all sections of the county suffered,
though in some precincts the damage
is more general than in others.
Here in Ogden the freeze-up was
looked for, and precautions were TAX
en- wherever feasible to guard against
the expected destruction. Nevertlhe-
less "a good many blackened and with
cred flower beds may be seen around
the city today. In fact, they are the
exception rather than the rule. The
portion of the city in front of Ogden
canyon probably suffered less than any
locality, because of the breeze which
blew down the canyon and warded off
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damage to fruit was experienced in
that locality 1t is not thought that
the peaches are damaged to any great
extent though they will doubtless be
caused to mature much earlier by rea-
son of the cold snap. Thus they will
be thrown on the market all together,
and consequently a lessening in price
may be the result. In several orchards
pears were noticed frozen solid, while
in others they escaped injury This
irregularity was quite noticeable
throughout several Sections-Some or
chards and gardens in one block being
badly damaged, while others a. short
distance away seem to have escaped
with Slight losses. Tomatoes, melons
and in many cases late potatoes and
similar vegetables are ruined.
Heavy damages were reported from
Plain City particularly to tomatoes
and fruits. Hooper, Roy, Wilson,,
Marriott and Farr-West seemed to
meet about the same fate as Plain
City.
The hardest freeze seems to have
visited Eden, Huntsville and Liberty,
precincts in the extreme eastern part
of the county. However the losses in
this section are not so heavy as those
precincts raise very little fruit. Most
of their corn crops were sufficiently
advanced to confine the damage to
the fodder, making the latter of little
use for forage. In many cases there
potatoes and even lucern received
much damage.
Uintah and Riverdale were both
visited quite severely, In the former
place however, the report says that
some farms were but lightly dam
aged because of various Typographical
features. The breeze which came
down the Weber canyon seemed to
ward off the severest part of the frost
from the farms just in front of it
while certain places where the ground
is swampy or is near swamps the
crops seem to have been protected by
a slight vapor which exhaled from the
soil.
North Ogden and Pleasant View
report extensive losses to fruit and
garden vegetables with considerabl BILE
damage to lucern, late potatoes and
corn.
The silver lining to the cloud must
be looked for in the predictions of the
doctors that better health will prevail
since the storm. Typhoid and other
fevers have been unusually prevalent
in the country precincts during the
long dry spell and it is expected that
now these maladies will be checked.