The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-08

latter than the former figure. Several growers state that their fruit is of an excellent quality and plenty of it. The local association comprises nearly one hundred growers, and shipping will begin between January 10 and 15.
 SAN GABRIEL VALLEY.
 The Times correspondent has made a bicycle run of forty miles to inspect the fruit of the San Gabriel Valley, and so far as is possible at this early day. has secured accurate information of the condition of the orchards.
 A thorough inspection, during which many oranges were tested, reveals the following facts: Duarte has not frost ed orange to be found The great bulk of oranges at Lower Duarte are unaf- faoted. Monrovia has not frosted or ange. Azuso and Covina have sound fruit as before the frosts, throughout the whole extent of the section, with the possible exception of along two narrow channels between the places, where there are spots revealing signs of some damage, possibly reaching l per cent. of the acreage of the two places. At Irvingdale there is an uncertain per centage of the damage, though 1t is be- lieved that the great bulk of the fruit is without serious injury.
 k Sierra Madre has escaped injury from the frost, as far as can be learned in any degree.
 POMONA VALLEY.
 Buyers of oranges and the represen- tatives of the exchange at Pomona are %l,ot hn ,+o- l rrNI. fruit is very light. Between Pomona and Ontario are two washes down which currents of cold air came, but barring those and the low lands south of town where there are but few groves, no damage was done, and large por- tion of the lower land was not affected seriously, though In that section 1t is impossible to segregate that which has suffered from that which has not by any geographical line. North of Holt avenue, where probably 95 per cent. of the oranges and lemons are grown, there is a practically solid body of un- hills. The extent of the damage here is variousy estimated at from nothing up to 10 per cent.
 Lordsburg and San Diemas has es- capped without damage from the several frosts.
 Glendora is practically unaffected by the frost, though 1t is possible that a very small quantity of fruit in the track of couple of washes has been frosted. North Pomona orchards are practic- ally unaffected by the frost. | Clo rar,,npt has aSnappd apv in iury Rialto, which has several hundred | acres of young trees seems to have es- l capped without any injury,
 ll Cucamonga is practically, if not who'll l ly, exempt from damage to either or langes or lemons.
 In Ontario, those who have made a careful investigation of the whole area | or the orange territory estimate that | the damage will not exceed 1 or 2 per cent. of the total yield, the damaged l fruit being limited to one or two small | depressions In the general contour of l the district.
 ORANGE COUNTY. | That little or no damage has resulted l to the orange crop in this county from | the recent frosts is the unanimous yer l dict of those engaged in the business. l Tustin, Orange, Valley Park, Placen- | tia, Fullerton and Aanaheim have been heard from and while each of these or I ange growing belts has experienced cold weather and some frost. no in stance is reported of fruit being render
 ed unfit for market by the cold. At 1 no time during the recent cold
 snap has the thermometer dropped
 below 27 degrees This low temperature
 has been occasionally reached between the hours of and o'clock in the morn. ing, but never earlier. Had this tenn Iperature been reached at midnight and
 continued thus low till sunrise the effect would doubtless have been disastrous In this connection 1t may be interesting
 tY note some experiments made in two orange orchards near Tustin. In ono l belonging to Dr. M. s. Jones the ground was prepared for irrIgating anc I thoroughly soaked. This was during the coldest night of the late freeze. Be | tween the hours of and a. m. ther- | mometer on one of the trees registered
 30 degrees, while thermometer in ar
 adjoining orchard, which was not irri. | Sdleu, OWneu Dy LIT. wall, TSSlSlSTeu q
 degrees. Dr. Walls thermometer was
 removed to the other orchard and plac, | ed beside the other register. It imme.
 diately rose 3 degrees. demonstrating | to certainty the value of irrigation as
 a frost killer.
 l SAN DIEGO COUNTY.
 The recent cold snap has demonstrat
 ed the fact that there is a citrus fruit
 belt in San Diego county, extending | along the coast and about twelve mile:
 in width. In this district and investiga ton as to conditions shows that the or ange and lemon growers of Chula Vista
 National City, Sweetwater, Pacific Beach and country tributary. adjacen
 to either the bay or ocean, as we'll a: La Mesa, Lemon Grove and other To- calities on the Mesas back of San Diego 1 suffered no material damage from thu l frosts,
 As far back as Santee, Fl Cajon ant
 Lakeside, where advantage was take1 | of the weather bureau warnings an( liberal smudging was employed, the los
 in the citrus fruit orchard was nomi | nal.
 The lowest unofficial temperature re ported in the bay region was 32 degrees at Chula Vista on the morning of De
 cember 22 At El Cajon unofficial ther mometers on this same date registered