The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-26


Rrom The Heralds Correspondence
RichfeId, Jan. 25.-The temperature
last night and this morning has broken
all previous weather records for this
part of Utah, the mercury having fallen
lower than on the famous BLACK Fri
day. years ago At sunrise this morn
ing the government thermometer at
Richfield registered q below zero. Sim
liar thermometers at Elsinore and JOS
eph, respectively and II miles south
west Of Richfield, showed % and 80 de-
grees below this morning Those two
towns are in the direction OF Gold
Mountain, where the miners say the
mercury has not risen to the zero mark
this month. All day long it has been
bitterly cold in Richfield, and there is
promise OF a worse night than last.
PHENOMENA IN SANPETE.
Mt. Pleasant, Jan. 25.-The weather
here appears to have the Klondicitis,
the thermometer scratching 70 below
pretty nearly but the semf-haZy at
nosphere gives US some fine metero-
logical phenomena in the way of par
helia or mock suns. At one time on
Monday three could be seen at once,
and during the day four were observ-
ed, but never more than three at a
time.
The already excellent sleighing was
much helped by fine fall of snow
Sunday night.
Crossing the divide between Mt.
Pleasant and the sawmills, last Friday
night, six teamsters came near having
a serious time. The dugway was drift
ed full, and for a weary mile they
were completely lost, but managed
about midnight to reach camp
SPRINGVILLE'S RECORD.
Springville. Jan 25-At 7:30 this
morning the thermometers registered at
20 degrees below zero, the coolest
weather of the winter.
FIFTEEN BELOW AT MANNING.
Manning. Utah. Jan. 25.-For the "a
hours previous to $50 p. m. yesterday,
the snow fell steadily. accompanied by
a heavy wind, which drifted snow many
feet deep in the various cuts, through
which the Short Line & Mercur rail-
road passes. rendering traffic almost
impossible but by untiring efforts Sec
ton Foreman Elton succeeded in keep
ing the road open. Last night the tenn
perature fell to the lowest point this
winter, Is degrees below zero.
The ore froze in the ore bins, and not
over % tons was crushed by last nights
shift.
MORE THAN so BELOW.
Heber. Jan. 25.-Mauy old-timers who
have lived here since the valley was
first settled, say this is the coolest win
ter experienced for more than a score
of years.
This morning is a nipper. During
last night the mercury went more than
80 degrees below zero.
KAYsvILLE SHIvERS.
KaysvilIe, Jan. 25.-The frigid north
wind that prevailed Sunday and yes
- ls,rr
point that has been recorded this year,
thermometers this morning registering
in various locations from 10 to 20 de-
grees below zero. The prospects are
that tonight will be another singer.
SCHOOLS CLOSED AT LOGAN.
Logan, Jan. 25.-The weather was a
singer again last night, the mercury
dropping to so below zero. Some of the
schools have had TO close down on ac-
count of the intense cold. At the big
school building extra janitors have been
engaged, it being necessary to keep the
furnaces going all night.
DOWN TO 80 BELOW.
Provo, Jan. PR. NJ. Callister came
up from Fillmore today. He states
that the thermometer went down to 80
below zero this morning at Juab.
MORGAN's DOSE.
Morgan. Jan. 25.-The thermometer
registered this morning at o'clock q
below zero, the coolest it has been this
winter.
PARK CITY'S REPORT.
Park City, Jan. 25.-The mercury
dropped several notches lower this
morning. At the Ontario mine it was
1e below Down in the city it reached
20
At OTHER POINTS.
The Deseret Telegraph company yes
terday received the following reports
from points along its line:
Paris.-Bear Lake, 80 below zero this
morning.
Ogden.-Seven below.
Provo.-Eleven below.
Nephi-TwelVe below.
Mt. Pleasant.-Twenty-t below.
Manti.-Eighteen below.
BeaVer.-SeVen below.
Parowaa.-Fourteen below.
Cedar.-Ten below.
St. George.-One above zero; extreme
" cod for Dixie.
Toquerville.-About same as St
George.