Arizona republican., 1910-01-08

inquired about. Little more than a railroad station and one saloon, but
 good what there is of it. presumably
 Cochise is also the name of an Ari- zona county containing such cities as Bisbee. Douglas. Benson Nand Tomb
 stone. towns of all sizes smaller. and
 in one place or another almost any
 kind of climate one can ask for, but
 the country is mostly mountainous
 Phoenix is a pleasant city where
 the sun will shine six days in week, generally speaking. and The Republi-
 can believes is as. near what the post
 masters correspondent is looking for. as she can find in America. But to !.be right honest and frank. during the
 last month there has been more cloudy
 than sunshiny weather, though the to- tai rainfall for December was only a ] trifle over an inch. There was little
 rain during the first few days of Jan
 uary but it is clear now and 1t seems | likely it will remain so, though it is
 exasperatingly cold for this part of Arizona. But it is confidently believed
 that by the time this article is in the hands of the writer who called it out,
 conditions will be restored to their
 usual winter salubrity.
 1 To get down to bottom facts, it has | been known to get as cold in Phoenix
 as IS degrees above zero. just once a
 good many years ago. Rarely however ' does the thermometer go as low as 30
 and many winters have passed when
 that point has not been reached by several degrees. To be honest and not deceive by telling a partial truth only. it went as low as 2Sduring the month
 of December in this city anl as low
 as 24 in some of the sections round
 about On the night of January 6,
 1910, it went to 26 in Phoenix and
 some reports from outlying sections were 23 degrees And it should be stated in all candor that nobody here remembers time when there has been month of as continuous cold weather as during the past four weeks. the figures given being the lowest points reached. The normal average temperature for Phoenix for December is B. The maximum for 15 years was so. The minimum for Is years was 22. The IS degree record referred to above was previous to 15 years ago. In December 1909 there were 1 IA clear days: II partly cloudy; 6 i cloudy and five days on which more than one-hundredth of an inch of rain | fell !
 A hotel in Tempe, eight miles from ] here. the Casa Lomo advertises free board for every day in the year in which the sun does not appear at all. | and makes its advertising good. Some times it stands loss but seldom and the facts from a business standpoint ! make the ad good one. AS a general proposition Arizona normally has summer rainy season and a winter rainy season with occasional scatter ing rains between, sometimes quite frequently and again none at all be- tween seasons and sometimes the summer rainy season itself has failed to appear and the winter rainy season r was all too short The winter rainy season may come anywhere from De- cember l to March l with a total rainfall at perhaps three inches for the winter. and is sometimes divided into two consignments. but usually these rains do not cover many weeks and there is alternating sunshine be- tween them.
 But these are general rules against which there are exceptional seasons just as this one is in Arizona. and to be perfectly fair, the same exceptions seem to have been in force in Cali fornia and all the rest of the United States It has been frightful every where. Redlands. even, is supposed to have a good climate as a rule, but never quite so good as Phoenix. and from reports all southern California las had exceptionally bad weather and nearly always has much more rain than Arizona. In fact Arizona rains in the main come from the coast and California gets all she can assimilate md Arizona gets the slop-overi l.
 To save repetition of the foregoingL acts it is timely to render a few ob- 'ervations here on the orange indus ny. which is the thing most vitally Affected here by cold weather. Dur ng the severe days of December some If the oranges on the trees were frog m, the leaves were nipped and some If the young nursery stock was killed During the freezes of January and
 it is suspected that some additional 'ursery Stock was killed Some of he groves in exposed places. due to everal frosts of the past month, are | low as brown as though they had $ 'een singed with fire but the damage vas ali on the outside foliage and ome fruit. So far as has been re- 'orted not a mature tree has been