The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1917-01-31
AND VICINITY IN
GRIP OF old JACK FROST
Temperature Ranges Below Zero Ev-
cry Night for Two Weeks Shutting
Of Water Supply


has held Fallon, in common with all
Nevada. in an icy grip for the past
couple of weeks. came to an end last
Sunday, when the sun came out
bright and warm accompanied by
solft, warm wind which played havoc
with the snow and by Monday night
glare of ice to rivers of mud.
The temperature dropped below
zero every night last week, ranging
from below on Monday night to 2
below on Friday night. The maxi
mum temperature for the week end
ing last Sunday was on Saturday
afternoon when II reached AZ de-
grees. The effect OF the continuous
cold has been to drive the frost
deeper into the ground and in dig
gIng up frozen pipes it has been
found to penetrate to a depth of q
inches. Practically every service
ripe In the residence district has been
frozen solidiy from the property
line TO the mains.
City Engineer crehore has been
busy the past couple of weeks thaw-
ing out pipes by elcctricity with two
emergency outfits consisting of
couple OF transformers on wagon.
In many instances. however, the
pipes were no sooner cleared than
they froze again. Hence 1t was
found necessary to abandon the orig
inal plan of thawing In the order in
which the requests were filed and to
proceed TO the extremities OF the
lines and keep the mains open by
permitting them TO run 10 provide
a circulation. Mr. Crehore states
that Notwithstanding the inconven-
ience under which the people were
laboring, due to the fact that whole
sections of the city were absolutely
without water for culinary purpose,
as a whole they bore their trials with
admirable fortitude. To make mat
ters worse in many sections the
house sewers are likewise frozen.
this latter condition. however. has
been rapidly relieved.
Yesterday morning was ushered
In by high wind accompanied by a
heavy snowstorm and by noon the
country was again under blanket
of the beautiful"
When the service pipes we're first
laid In the city by the California
company which had the contract,
they were frequently laid only Il
inches below the surface. When the
city took charge of the system this
was increased to Is inches and later
to twenty-four. The experiences OF
the past season will probably result
In all future pipes being laid at least
thirty inches below the surface.
AS this winter has broken all pre-
cedents. so, likewise. 1t has made the
weather prophets wary of predictions
for the future. However. IL is not
probable that this section will again
be visited by zero weather this seas
on and 1t is hoped that next month
will see the frost out of the ground
to a sufficient extent to permit OF
the usual spring plowing which has
been brought to stabdstill for the
past two months.
Many hundreds of acres are only
awaiting the breaking up OF the
freezing weather to begin operations
for sugar beet planting. All the
caterpillar outfits were put out OF
commission by the first fall of snow,
which makes their operation abso-
lutely impossible, as the snow ac-
cumulates on the continuous track
and prevents securing hold for
traction. 1t is not believed that he
breaking of land will be seriously
interfered with, however, with the
coming Of the several big outfits,
spring plowing is less serious prop
osition than formerly.