The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-15
MERCURY TAKES
ANOTHER FALL
Slides Downward and Touches q
Degrees Below Zero.
MORE COLD WEATHER TO COME
NEARLY EVERYTHING FROZEN
UP IN CITY YESTERDAY.

-Four degrees below zero. Such was
the temperature record for Salt Lake
yesterday morning. The mercury
crawled down toward the bulb end Of
the thermometer at racing speed and
all the sunshine OF the day couldn't
coax it very far back up the tube.
Everything was frozen up. The
streams in the canyons We're solid
creeks of ice and the power house
wheels stood still, ineased in a crystal
coating. No power was available
from the houses in Ogden and Big
Cottonwood canyons yesterday morn
ing and the electric power of the city
had to be furnished by the steam plants
in the city. Street car service was
still out of gear and there were few
water pipes in the city that would give
any water when the taps were turned
If even they would turn.
The temperature dropped very rap
idly after dark Friday night and re-
manned about stationary until o'clock
yesterday morning. At that time it
dropped to 4 degrees below zero BY
some freal1ish prank of the weather
the mercury rose three degrees in the
next hour and stood I4degree below
at 6 O'Clock.
In a Jumping Match.
AS If engaged in a jumping match
all by itself the mercury dropped back
to the 4-degree below mark in the next
hour. At o'clock ii again stood at
1 degree below. and in the next hour
rose to the zero point. At 10 o'clock
1t was 4 degrees above. and at l p. m.
stood at IL degrees above-the same
point reached by the thermometer the
day before at that time. Later in the
day it rose to Is above.
Four degrees below zero is the low
est temperature recorded here in a
number OF years, and even lower tenn
peratures than that were recorded in
parts Of the city At the state peni-
tertiary the thermometer registered 10
degrees below at o'clock.
With all this cold here, Salt Lake
is apparently in the warmest portion
Of the cold wave. for reports. from
all around show that the mercury went
much lower than in years. The tenn
2erature recorded at the dam of the
power company in ogden canyon was
Is degrees below zero. The water in
the stream was frozen to the bottom
and not a wheel turned in the plant.
The temperature was not the same at
the Big Cottonwood plant but all the
water was frozen up so that the plants
there were out of working order.
Power Was Lacking.
As a TeSuiL the power u operate
cars and elevators and such like had
to be furnished entirely by the city
steam plants yesterday. The car serV-
ice was seriously hampered and cars
were running when they could. About
the same schedule as was in force the
day before was resorted to.
There were few water pipes above
ground that were not solid yesterday
morning and they didn't thaw out very
much during the day except where
artificial heat was applied.
Reports from surrounding weather
stations show that Salt Lake is the
center OF ring of frigid weather
where the temperature is doing high
dive stunts from the zero point down.
ward At MOdena on the south the
temperature was 10 degrees below; at
Grand junction on the east ii was Ia
below: at Winnemucca, New, on The
west it was % below, and at Lander,
WYo.. on the north it reached the re-
markedly low point Of % degrees be
low. The weather man says there viii
be more cold weather yet.