Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-07
COLD WAvEO0ES
MUCH DAM AGE
TO ORANGE CROP
Low Temperatures Re-
ported From California
Show Growers of Citrus
Fruit to be Worried.

Los Angeles. CAL, Jan. 6.-Dense
pals Of smoke from the smudge pots
in orange groves overspread today
the entire citrus region Of southern
California in an effort to prevent trem-
endous damage from the coldest wealth
er known In this vicinity for years.
Ice formed everywhere The weather
bureau here reported killing" frosts
on all the shelves of the foothills
where orange growers for years have
known no dangerous temperatures.
Damage was general but until the cold
abates no figures of losses can be ac-
curate.
Riverside, in the heart Of the
orange belt was the coldest spot Of
ALL Damage probably was greatest
there. At midnight the thermometer
fell to 1S degrees. 8. A. Little, head
of a fruit company said that 80 per
cent of the oranges Immediately around
Riverside would be a total loss.
San Diego with a minimum of % de-
grees experienced the coolest wealth
er in its history, according to weather
bureau records.
At Santa Barbara water pipes were
frozen and one man was treated for
frozen ear. Citrus growers are fight
ing the frost with the smudge pots.
In Los Angles the minimum was 80
degrees. Standing water everywhere
was frozen over.
Coolest Since 1888.
San Francisco, Cal, Jan. 6.-Relief
from the biting cold, the sharpest felt
since January 1888, was promised to-
day by the weather bureau here.
For the northern and central por-
tions Of the state, the forecast was
warmer weather tonight with a shift
Of the wind into the southeast. For
southern California the change would
not arrive until tomorrow.
The lowest temperature was 1928.
Ice formed on the streets and the
Marin county shore of San Francisco
was cracking with ice this morning.
In the San Joaquin foothills. the tenn
perature got as low as 16 and in the
orange belt it ranged from 20 to %.
Consid derable crop damage was re-
ported but the weather bureau had no
figures on it's extent.
Snow In Seattle. ,.
SedLll0, WdSu., jan. U. A0 ioWOSS
temperature in Seattle this morning
was % degrees as compared with %
yesterday morning. Light snow Is
falling with rising temperature.
Temperatures in Alaska are not alb
normal, Sitka with high temperature Of
3s having been warmer yesterday than
Seattle.
Covers Wide Area.
Denver, Colo, Jan. 6.-Slight abate-
ment of the extremely cold weather
that prevailed yesterday and last night
throughout Colorado. Wyoming and
New Mexico was predicted by the gov
ernment weather bureau here today.
In many cases new low records for this
date we're recorded, among the govern
ment's records for below zero tenn
perature last night being: Denver 20;
Pueblo 18; Leadvi1le 30; Grand juno
ton 6; Cheyenne "a; Sheridan, Wyo.,
80: Lander %; Amarillo, Texas 2;
Rapid City %; Flagstaff Ariz., IA. In
New Mexico the temperature ap-
preached the zero mark, the govern
ment records showing at Santa Fe two
above and at Roswell "a above.
First Big Snow.
Ottumwa is in the midst Of the first
real big snow of the season. The
white flurries started Sunday morning
about o'clock and came at lively
pace. This morning at o'clock 1t re-
sumed and has been falling continu-
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