Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-01-07

A LONG ZERO LINE.
Denver, tUIu., Jan. Mot so cold
with slowly rising temperature was
/ the prediction for today and Wednes-
day in Colorado, New Mexico AMI
I Utah given out today by the local
weather bureau. However, abnormal
/ " low temperatures were reported
/ from these states early with the zetD
line extending west from Amarillo,
Texas, through central New Mexico
and Arizona and north through south
eastern Nevada.
Some of the below zero tempcra-
lures reported for the last "a hours
are: Amarillo, .; Denver, is: Pu-
eblo, %; Leadyille, 2G Grand juno
ton, IS; Cheyenne, "a; Sheridan, 80;
Santa Fe, -; Flagstaff, 1G
81 BELoW!!
Unofficial reports from Steamboat
Springs in northwestern Colorado
show record of 81 degrees below
last night,
Railroad traffic continued to be de-
layed today by the extreme cold.
The present cold wave has been ac-
companied by little wind in the Rocky
mountain states and meagre reports
from the ranges indicate compara-
lively little loss.
DAMAGE OF MILLIONS.
Los Angeles. Calf. Jan. ITEM
peratures from -four to six degrees
lower than Sunday night were record.
ed last night, blasting the hopes of
orange and lemon growers. 1t was
admitted today that citrus fruit
losses would be extremely heavy. Els
Inmates of : '1aee ran from ten to
tnirty million dollars. Railroad
freight losses, figured in terms of
were approximated in the
statement of shippers that the 1915
crop of oranges and lemons would be
from ten to twenty thousand carloads
short.
THREE DIE IN sNoWsLlDE.
Sandon, B. c., Jan. six men
were caught in a snowslide from the
2O00 feet above the Noble
Five mine yesterday and three lost
their lives. The other three had
escapes.
Washington. d. G., Jan. Thirty
degrees below zero at Miles City,
Montana, this morning formed the
climax of the cold through the west
extending southeastward to the gult
states.
The northeastern part of the coun
try has temporary protection by the
development of an area of high pres
sure over the Atlantic near the coast,
but this territory, according to the
weather sharps, gradually will feel
The cold before the week is over.
Southern California is experiencing
-he coolest weather in forty years.
The temperature at San Diego was 2s
early today, record breaker for that
)oint.
At Pueblo, Colo, it was 90 degrees
below zero this morning; at Denver,
s. Salt Lake, 2; Cheyenne, "a; Min
ledosa, Man, sc below; Ell Paso.
Texas, G above Amarillo, Texas, be-
CIV, anda the freezing temperatures
'Xtend through Texas to the Mexican
'order and eastward to Louisiana.
At Omaha it was zero: at st. Louis,
2 above; Ft. Worth, IA; San An.
onio, 90: Kansas City, 6: Wichita.
1; Chicago, 2S; Nashville, Sc: Mem
his, 81; Atlanta, 5S, and New Or
cans, GS
COLD IN CALIFORNIA.
Los Angeles, Calf, Jan. River
ide was the coolest spot of the citrus
elt yesterday with a temperature of
.. Other temperatures were: San
)iego, 2S; Los Angeles, 2S; Oxnard,
a.: Santa Ana, "a.
These were weather bureau figures,
nut private thermometers indicated
hat in Los Angeles Pomona and sew
raj other places ii was much colder
IN the street levels.
w. A. Schaffer, Pomona orange
grower, despaired of saving his crop
md to save his trees. fought cold
With cold. He. sprayed his trees with
fater and although the sun was shin
ng brightly at the time, the water inn
nediately froze, bedecking the trees
II icicles, and the crystal-studded fret
york of frost and ice. His Grange
rove made a winter scene that was
ruch admired and photographed.
MAY MELT SNOW.
Seattle. Wash, Jan. THE CHI
ook wind. the coming of which has
een dreaded by railroad men for the
asst two weeks. ha, arrived. 1t is
cared that the fifteen or more of
now piled upon the Cascade noun
aims will be melted and will rush
own the slopes, washing out tracks