The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1910-01-06
FALLoN, NEVADA, THURSDAY. JANUARY g. 1915
AND THE COLD WAVE HIT US
A Minimum Temperature of Is
Degrees Breaks All Previous
Records by Big Odds.

The "pogonip" that hung over the
valley for nearly week was dispelled
Thursday evening by a cold rain, which
froze Thursday night and gave US a
fair representation on the following
morning of "silver thaw." But Fri
day warm, gentle rain made its ap-
pearance that took ice and snow and
transformed it quickly into moisture
with the result that mud puddles and
lakes were quite common over our val
ley. Ordinarily our winter weather is
continuous sun, but duplicating a like
period of three years ago, we cannot
brag consistently about our late
spasms of weather, for it has been
abominable.
The mercury took most surprising
fall Saturday night, registering an ex-
treme minimum temperature on that
date of three below only to drop to ten
below on Sunday night, and again on
Monday the ten below performance
was repeated, taking the government
instruments at the experimental farm
as authority. Tuesday and yesterday a
warm wave crept over the valley. Over
the valley lies crust of the beautiful"
varying from four to seven inches in
depth and which gives promise of stay
ing with US for a considerable period
unless this north pole weather abates,
something that is hoped for by every
one, for here where cold weather vista
tions come but once in generation, the
people are i'll prepared for it, and great
hardship will quickly follow pro-
longed spell.
The stock interests, so far have given
no sign Of distress. The Williams and
Freeman bands and others of our resi-
dent stockmen are well prepared for.
But in addition to the local sheep, there
is said to be some twenty-five bands of
outside sheep, which are browsing on
winter forage in different parts of the
county, and which will suffer greatly
if the cold snap does not sbate.
The mercury continued in its down
ward course and during Tuesday night
it reached the lowest mark ever recorded
by government thermometer in the
history Of this valley, when it touched
fifteen degrees below zero. Within
the recollections of the Oldest inhabi-
tants the weather of this week is with
out precedent and from reports the
wave seems to have had nearly the en-
tire continent in its grasp at different
periods in the. last ten days, extreme
cold being reported from a vice area
of country. Down in the semi-tropical
Vegas valley half foot Of snow fell
and the mercury took tumble that
made old timers scratch their heads;
over in California snow has fallen in
sections where it was before unknown.
The worst feature of the freak weather
developed to date in local sense is
that which has to do with our fuel
supply. An extra car came straggling
in the first of the week but the fuel
man is, out of necessity, dishing out the
coal mighty sparingly and unless other
cars are added to the present supply
very quickly, we are going to have a
lot of suffering.
In the meantime sleighing is general
over the valley among those who have
sleighs. As an instance of how often
sleighing weather visits US, sled made
by w. K. Lee just twenty years ago
this winter is used for the first time
since the winter it was made, which
makes us know how really phenomenal
our recent weather has been.