The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1913-01-09
ANNUAL STORM
STRIKES VALLEY
GENERAL COLD WAVE PREVAILS
Greatest Damage Results in Southern
California, Where Damage to Citrus
Crop is Heavy.

Just one year from the time of the
beginning of the big snow storm of
last year, when the snowfall piled up
to the depth of four feet in some por-
tions CT the Lower Valley, another
snowfall began Monday afternoon. All
of Monday night light fall prevailed
over the valley. Early Tuesday morn
ing the temperature rose several de-
grees and the size Of the flakes in
creased. By Tuesday afternoon the
snow had reached a depth of seven
inches. II grew warmer on Tuesday
night and the snow partly turned to
rain.
The streets and roads having been
frozen hard previous to the snowfall,
the sleighing has been excellent except
in places where-the road was worn full
of deep ruts and at these points, when
the sleigh runners fall in the ruts,
travel is made very disagreeable.
The boys in the city have searched
closets and sheds for their skates and
sleds and have been keenly enjoying
the winter sports.
The sloughs along the Columbia have
! been frozen over and have formed
good skating courses. A large number
/ got out their sleds Tuesday afternoon
and coasted on the city streets. The
boys start their sleds at point near
the Christian church on Ninth street
and turn into State, and thence on
down to the business portion Of the
city. The course thus made is long
one, The youths created an envy in all
of the older people who saw them en-
joying the sport
The temperature was not as low by
Is degrees this year as during the
severe storm of last winter. On Sun
day night. January Z, last year, the
thermometer registered temperature
of four degrees below zero, while the
records in different parts Of the valley
this year show from 10 to IA degrees
above zero on Sunday night. the cold
est night Of the year.
The cold has done no damage in the
Hood River valley. If the snowfall
continues and remains on the ground
any great length of time the proposed
development work planned by the two
power companies will be retarded, as
will the construction of the intsalla-
tion of the municipal water plant.
The cold wave has been general. 1t
seemed to have started ON the Atlantic
I coast and have swept westward.
Chicago felt the touch of Boreas and
was tied up in the grasp Of winter the
8 latter part of last week. Heavy SHOWS
= prevailed over the entire northwes
. and the Great Northern and Northern
= Pacific railway systems were tied u
ii at different points because OF slides
80 Salt Lake City has been threatene
:" with water famine, because of freeze
- in pipe lines.
~ However. no part of the country ha
= suffered from the cold wave as ha
= southern California. where the loss il
~ frozen citrus fruit crops is estimateI
p all the way from 25 to rs per cent.
- The orange and lemon crop of thin
" district for the year is estimated a
= approximately $50, 900, 900, and the losi
e will be terrible. Not only have the
fruit crops been injured but heavy
toll will be taken from the truck anc
vegetable gardeners.
at is an i'll wind that blows no one
N good" ard the northwestern apple
market men are expecting an increase
in the price of their product since the
disastrous freeze. j. S. Crutchfield
u the Pittsburg fruit merchant, who was
y on the coast the greater part OF the
p late fall, in an address in Portland told
g his audience that nut two things woulc
y be of any great assistance in the mar
! keting Of the years apple crop in the
u northwest. Zone, he said, sis for q
% storm to sv eep over the banana region,
y and the other for disastrous freeze tC
IS strike southern California. The for
g mer, | understand has already hap
b peHed and that many banana planta
T. tions have been ruined by wind
e storms. THE second of the condition:
e mentioned by MIR. Crutehfeld now has
II happened.