The daily sentinel., 1909-04-30
NO SERIOUS DAMAGE
BUT DANGER REMAINS

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on ill daylight. The fruit growers
of the upper valley who have smudge
nots and the great majority OF them
have determined to take no chances
whatever AS result, from all tnat
can be learned by The Sentinel ana
also from Investigations made py
Editor Sherman, of the Palisade Tri-
bune, no damage whatever was done
by frost in the Palisade district last
night. From 6 o'clock till midnight
the temperature alternated between
az and "a degrees. At 1880 IT was
at 32 and at the same stage at l:3o-
Later on the temperature began TO
drop slowly. At a :40 the temperature
stood at IS degrees. AT 500 II got
TO "a degrees, the lowest recorded
as far as can be ascertained, IN the
Palisade district, during the night
At 5:45 the temperature was up TO
29 degrees, and it got no lower after
that. II must be understood that
these temperatures were recorded IN
territory where smudge pots were not
burning.
The temperature was Kept up much
higher in every orchard where
smudge pots were used Practically
every grower in the Palisade district
who has been interviewed declares
that no damage was done Partly
cloudy skies. light snow at one time
and a breeze late in the night helped
keep danger away in the Palisade
district.
Pomona Feeling Fine
Every grower in the Pomona dis
trict with whom The Sentinel talked
today is very optomistic over the sit
uation. In no district in the valley
has smudging been SO generally
adopted as in the Pomona district.
only a few growers, You can count
them on the fingers of one hand, in
that district. have failed to provide
themselves with smudge pots. Every
Pomona grower was on the watch
last night. Like other districts. the
temperature ranged from 80 to 81
during the greater part of the night.
About $3.50 the alarm to start the
smudge fires was given and soon the
whole district was lighted up. The
wind made it difficult to get the
smudge fires working as well as
could be desired but the temperature
was kept up in every orchard just the
same and every orchardist that
'smudged" believes his crop is safe.
The lowest temperature recorded
in Pomona, so far as can be learned,
was 25 " degrees about 8 o'clock.
r. II. Turpin, who saved his crop
last year by 'smudging'' while near
ly every other crop, in that section
was lost owing to failure to smudge,
believes that all the fruit on his
seventeen acres is safe today At no
time did the temperature get lower
than 81 in his orchard.
"a Lowest at Fruita.
Careful investigation made in the
Fruita and lower valley district and
reported to The Sentinel by Editor
Reynolds, of the Fruita Telegram,
and other citizens of the lower valley,
indicate. that little damage was done
in that district. The apples, the big
fruit crop of that section, are not far
enough advanced to be hurt by such
temperatures as prevailed last night.
Temperature stages of "a to 26 de-
grees, the lowest recorded, were re
corded between and 5:3O at differ
ent points in the lower valley and in
rrulta proper. Twenty-eight degrees
was the lowest recorded at several
points IN the lower valley Peaches
were slightly damaged in some or
chards and SO were plums. Apricots
also suffered but these three fruits
make up comparatively small por
lon OF the lower valley crop. the
apple crop predominates and il is
safe. During the early evening and
TOT an hour or two after midnight ehe
temperature ranged from 3S to 31
uegrees- 1t was cloudy most of the
night Smudging was done in MANY
orchards.
At The Cross Orchard.
Over 1000 smudge pots. under tho
..narge . or II. e. Fulghrum, were kept |
burning during the early morning |
lours at the w b. Cross orchard near
SiiIton, an orchard consisting of 240
acres but not all of it is in bea
ne smudge pots being set out for the |
projection of about 80 acres. Ont /
sue OF the part of the orchard mat
was smudged" temperature as low
- q degrees was recorded about r |
CLOCK out at no time did the tenn
perature fall below % degrees in tha
l iuuseu section of the orchard and L
I, I was as low as 2S only short fine
ne brisk wind made it hard for tba
'ln uuge pots to get in effective work
~. tney Kept the temperature mn II
TOM = TO degrees in spite of the II
erious disadvantages. No damaae
Il the cross orchard is apparent.
Very Cold In Plateau.
bditor Pitts, of the Plateau yo,ca II
y Coiloran, was called up by Tho
'ehtihei today He stated that tha II
emperature fell very low in tbat
ection OF the county last night t.,
roze 10 the thickness of half an ;nars
'ut as all fruit except apricots Is hut