The San Francisco call., 1898-01-12

the fruit crop. It is now fourteen years since Marysville witnessed a | snowstorm.
 NEVADA CITY, Jan. 1.-The cold | weather of the past three days has | shortened the water supply in the | ditcheS of this section and partially | interrupted quartz and gravel mining operations. The Harmony drift mine had to quit entirely to-day, and the Providence Company will shut down. This morning the thermometer got i down to 17 degrees, but the tempera- ture is rapidly moderating. and it is thought there will be no more trouble. i Stage lines running to the north and east from here are using sleighs after | getting few miles above on the higher ridges.
 LODI. Jan. 11.-After two nights of the coldest weather and hardest frost in the history of Lodi, snow began fall ing here at o'clock this evening. At S o'clock it was still coming down in lively shape. Snowballing is going on in the pitchy darkness. This is the first in years. It will be good for farm CTS if north wind does not set in. TUBA CITY, Jan. 11.-It began showing here at 5 o'clock this evening
 The weather is still cold. No damage has been done as yet to citrus fruits.
 WOODLAND, Jan. IA south wind prevails. Rain all over the county be- gan this afternoon. A heavy snow has fallen in the foothills in Western Yolo, also in the vicinity of Blacks and Dun nigan. There has been a very slight fall of snow at Woodland.
 CHICO, Jan. 1.-The first snow for several years began falling here at 3:30 this afternoon and the indications are that it will continue tonight. A cold north wind is blowing.
 NAPA, Jan. 11.-It has been raining l here since noon and SnOwiDp in ha mountains about the town. This was the coldest morning of the winter.
 EUREKA, Jan. IA snowstorm visited Eel river valley to-day. A re- l port was received from Ferndale at g o'clock this morning that it was snow ing hard at that hour. This is a rare occurrence in that locality.
 SANTA CRUZ, Jan. 1.-The weather Is unusually cold. Ice formed this | morning. Snow on the mountains can be seen. Rain fell heavily this after noon and the prospect is good for a liberal downpour all night.
 MILTON, Jan. 11.--YeSterday morn | ing the thermometer registered the | lowest figure on record for this place 20 degrees Fahrenheit. Water pipes were frozen and the ground was frozen so hard that it was impossible to blow all day. Some injury will result to bar ley, which has already been sown. The
 
 be expected.
 ELMIRA, Cal, Jan. 1.-The pros poets of a drought throughout this part of California have been dispelled by re- cent rains. While the rainfall last year measured 12.6S, against 5.90 for the present season, the rains have been so uniform this spring that farmers have been enabled to put in a larger acre age of grain uP to the present time | than for several preceding seasons, which, with the spring rains that are almost assured by the light fall up to the present time, promises this section of the country a larger yield of grain than it has had for several years past It has been raining steadily for the last five hours.
 MONTEREY, Jan. 11.-Reports have just come in from the Carmel Valley and the Corral de Tierra country, about fifteen miles distant from this place that Sunday nights rainstorm termi- mated in a heavy snowfall. the snow remaining on the ground till past mid day on Monday. This is quite unprece-. dented in that section, and serious re- suits to garden truck are feared. A heavy snowstOrm also occurred on Fl Toro, the highest peak in this vicinity, and the big round mountain now pre- sents a fine appearance as seen from the valley on the sea with its gleaming white blanket of snow.
 CLONERDALE, Jan. 11.-There was a heavy fall of snow in this valley to- day, varying in depth from one to three inches. Early this morning the ther- mCmeter dropped to 24, the lowest in years, with clouds overhead, which commenced to drop their fleecy con- tents at 10 o'clock, snow falling at in- tervals until 6 o'clock tonight. An odd and unusual sight was that of par ties of snowballers frolicking among orange trees loaded down with golden fruit, peeping forth from a snowy GOV erinG. The snow came at an opportune time tc save the orange crop. So far citrus fruits have escaped damage by 1 frost. Young grain will be benefited by the snow.
 ST. HELENA, Jan. 1.-The oldest inhabitants say the present cold wealth CT has had no equal for thirty years. For several mornings the thermometer has been below 20, the ground is frozen and ice half an inch thick forms every night over ponds. On Sunday there was sufficient snow to whiten the ground So far the heavy nightly frosts have not damaged growing vegetation except to ruin the olive yield for pick ling purposes. The frost will not inter | fore, however, with the extraction of the oil. It began showing again about noon to-day and continued all the afternoon. The town turned out en masse, the en- l tire population engaging in snowbaE- | ing until darkness
 SAN JOSE Jan. 11.-Snow has fallen more or less constantly all the after noon on both the Santa Cruz and Mount Hamilton ranges. Before dark they presented a beautiful sight. The | faE of rain in the valley has not been heavy so far
 | SACRAMENTO, Jan. 11.-There has
 been no rain here except the shower | on Saturday evening, and no change | is reported in the condition of the | crops. There was a sprinkle here this evening and a few flakes of snow fell,
 but melted as soon as they struck the l ground Persons who came up from San Francisco tonight report quite a
 snowstorm along the road in Solano i County, with the ground covered. SANTA ROSA, Jan. 11.-Sonoma 1 County received a good rain to-day, | bringing the seasonal rainfall up to eight inches. No crop has suffered for | lack of moisture. but the rain will greatly benefit the pastures and early sown grain. It will also make blowing 1 more easy.
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