Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-22
Peculiar Feature that Practically All Snow
Is in the Lowlands.
LITTLE FALLS WEST OF THE DIVIDE
Railroads Have No Difficulty Keeping
Their Trains Moving.
MOISTURE BENEFIT TO GENERAL CROPS
Damage 90 Fruit, While Great, Will
Be More Than COunterbaInnced
By the Beneats from
the snow.


temperature followed the snowstorm last
night, IA above zero being recorded by the
weather bureau IN both Denver and Pueblo,
and fruit Of all kinds in es' \. y Colorado
was enectuaIly nipped & n Nud. At
Grand Junction, the cent, p e. more
important fruit growing di. Ut Vt Of
the continental divide, the ten, no tell
thirty degrees and the weatht &
there reported today that the CO.. ~
fruit was grave. While damage S.>>
fruit in the state may amount to $, -
million dollars. nearly all other crops z
be greatly benefited by the moisture.
remarkable feature OF the snowstDl n.
was that It was more severe on the lew
lands than in the mountains. While the
precipitation covered a large area, includ-
ing all Of Colorado, Wyoming and part of
South Dakota, Nebraska, Texas and New
Mexico, the snow was almost entirely con-
fined to the eastern slope of the Rocky
mountains and extended from Lander,
wyo., and Rapid City, s. D., on the north
20 Santa Fe, N. NJ, and Roswell. N NJ.
The Colorado state line on the west was
practically the limit OF snow in that direc-
ton and only a slight snow occurred west
OF the continental divide. The storm orig
mated in the north and worked its way
slowly to the south, passing out Of the
state late yesterday.
Not n RecOrd-Breaker.
Frederick II. Brandenburg, district fore
caster who estimated the snowfall in Den
yer at I75h inches, said today, that though
the storm was remarkable in this city for
April, II was by no means unprecedented
on April q, % and %. 1886, the records show
2 snowfall of 80 inches, % inches falling on
the last two days OF the storm. The only
weather bureau station in the mountains
1doffatt road. There only inches fell dur
ting the late storm.
At the railroad Offices 1t was stated today
that trafiio was not seriously impeded by
the snowstorm. as all the mountain roads
are prepared with giant rotary snow pIows
90 meet such emergencies. and that no
trains were delayed over an hour or two.
II was feared that heavy snow falling on
ahe old snow of last winter might start
slides to running, but in the section Of the
state where snow slides are most frequent
the snow was light and no slides have been
reported.
On the whole, 1t is asserted that while
the storm was heavier than any of the
entire winter. and some damage is reported.
the resulting good will Offset the loss many
fold.
No Trouble in Far West.
SALT LAKE CITY, April H.-Interviews
with railroad officials and with Local Fore
cast OficiRl Hyatt Of the United States
weather bureau show that the heavy SHOWS
which at the close Of last week prevailed
east OF the Rocky mountains did not visit
the country to the west of the great con-
tinental divide. There were scattered
enow fiurries in Utah and In other far
western states. but the fan was light and
did not impede railroad trafic. General
Of ha 10 Ifpe
says that not the slightest delay to passen-
ger or freight traflc has been experienced
by those roads. The same report was
made by Superintendent Van Housen OF
the San Pedro, Los Angeles Salt Lake
railroad. Colonel l. A. Benton, general
passenger agent Of the Denver & Rio
Grande says that his road experienced nc
trouble In Utah and that practically nc
delay was caused in Colorado, despite the
unusually heavy SHOWS which prevailed
generally over the state.
No snow I'm the North.
ST. PAUL, April G.-Accordng 20 officials
OF the Northern Pacific and the Great Nor
thern railroads there have been no snow
storms along these lines in the west for
several weeks, particularly west Of this
Rocky mountains General Superintendent
Horne Of the Northern Pacific, when asked
II the storms OF recent date had In any
way ineonvenienced them in the west. said
eve have not had a sign OF snow alonl
out line in the far west since February
with the possible exception OF a mere trace
at Livingston. Mont. We do not anticipate
any more trouble in that direction"
Trahac Superintendent Watrous OF tn,
Great Northern. said; I'VE have not hac
q report Of snow along our line IN weeks.
The heavy SHOWS OF the past wintel
throughout North Dakota and Montana ar,
expected TO be OF great benefit TO crops
especially In regions where there is only
slight rainfall during the summer months
sRoN At EI PaHO.
Ill PAso, Tex. April a.-snow fell herr
this morning at a lively rate for NOR,
than an hour. This Is the latest snow fal
ever known here and the temperature
which was Ss degrees, did damage TO tn,
small fruit and truck gardens In the val
ley. variously estimated at from f5OOOO t,
$4,000
Frost is predicted by the local weathe
bureau for tonight. The Golden Stat
Limited on the Rock Island railroad 4
six and one-half hours late on account o
a snow drift near Santa Rosa n NJ