The Alaska citizen., 1916-01-24
FIFTY BELOW IN FAIRBANKS LAST NlGhT-ONlY TEN
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that at no time during the past week. or while the thermometer registered more than 50 degrees of cod each day in Fairbanks. was
 it more than Is degrees below zero at the Summit roadhouse. on the Fairbanks Cleary Fairbanks creek trail,
 Yesterdays weather bulletin is- sued at the signal corps office, show ed the weather conditions which prevailed at various points in the interior It was as follows:
 Salcha, 63 B-Clear, calm. Richardson. 65 B-Hazy. calm. McCarty, 50 B-Hazy, calm. Donnely 52 B-Clear, calm. tra,l heavy
 McCallum, 33 Clear, calm, trail fair
 Parsons, 32 B-Clear little north wind, trail drifted.
 Nulato, 54 B-Clear, calm. Gibbon, 42 B-Clear, calm.
 Egbert. 53 B-Clear, calm.
 Circle, 50 B-Clear, calm. In Fairbanks proper the cold has been such as has not been expert enced for several years. Particu- larly is this true in the matter of the length of the spell. For nc than four days have now passed sirce the mercury went higher in the glass than 42 below zero.
 The severe spell started Wednes- day. when the mercury dropped from 25 below to 50 below in just a few hours. On Thursday the lowest r. corded at the Red Cross drug store was 65, while 4s was the highest i The mercury ranged from 45 below to 67 below on Friday while Satur- day 65 below was the coldest and 42 below the warmest, weather re corded
 The cold weather has had the effect of delaying traffic everywhere No stages have been moving ar the train of the Panama Valley rail road missed it's trips on Friday an Saturday. Moving freighters wero also few, necessity only calling them out in the cold with their teams. The Ross-Sayers Caterpillar was compelled to delay it's trip to the Tolovana on account of the weather It is expected, however, that it will move as soon as the cold shows signs of letting up.
 Business here was practically at a standstill during the last three days of the week, nobody venturing Q out to attend to daily affairs. How ever, that it was not too cold for ] those on pleasure bent, was evi- denced by the fact that the largest { crowd yet seen in the rooms, at tended ladies night. one of {
 Panama club.
 1 A few of the business houses
 were practically out of wood Some l closed their doors the last two days of the week, as in the case of Cor 1 don's Glass Block. while others have 1 borrowed a supply of wood from ac- commodating neighbors. AS has al,
 ways been the case during the col
 weather. the Northern Commercial
 co'nnany has come forward with
 the offer to furnish wood from it's yards to those who can get it in
 no other way
 ! Many of the residents of the c'ty
 are fearful of fires at a time suoh
 as this. Therefore the chief of the
 fire department has felt that it is 1 necessary to warn everybody to be '''' v their fires.
 last Wednesday night there was partial eclipse of the moon. This
 phenomenon, by some, is held re- sponsible for the continued cold spell.
 No particularly bad cases of freez- l ing are reported from the cold spell, such as are usual when extremely
 cold weather comes quickly A team of horses belonging to Julius Gius & Co.,, operating on Pedro creek, are reported to have died as the result of having their lungs frozen while working in the cold weather while it is also stated that the N c. Co.,, has lost three head of it's stage stock.
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