Show QUARTER QUARTER CE TURY'S COLD RECORD IS BROKEN I i M J IN L HITS HIJ Wj 9 I IS OFFICIAL fm Coldest oldest Night Since Dec 4 i 1892 Recorded Cold Wave Is General Over Utah Records Disclose I W WITH temperatures ranging i from front 1 above zero to 7 below within different t parts of I the city limits Salt I Lake I-ake Monday Mon Mon- Monday day night experienced the tiie lowest temperature since January 7 1913 It was the coldest weather for the month of or December since December 14 1892 when the mercury reached 1 below zero The official temperature taken on the roof root of ot the Boston building was 1 above zero at 4 a. a a a. m. m though outside of the smoke area official official official of of- thermometers showed 3 below zero at North State street 4 be below below below be- be low at the university and 7 below at 30 Sherman avenue between Thirteenth Thirteenth Thir Thir- and Fourteenth South The cold wave was general over Utah Nevada Idaho Montana Wyoming Wyoming Wyo Wyo- ming and Colorado At Modena 1 In Inthe Inthe inthe the southern part of ot Utah it was 8 8 below and at Grace Grac and Litton Lifton on Bear lake not far from the northern line it was 30 and 26 below Park City reported 10 below and other points in the Wasatch were expected to report 20 below temperature SUBZERO REPORTED The northern Rocky mountain cold wave spread this morning from Montana Montana Mon Ion tana to Kansas with lowest temperature tempera tempera- I ture at Lander 30 degrees below zero Yellowstone 32 degrees below Havre 30 degrees below Cheyenne and Swift Current and Helena 28 degrees below Williston and Prince Albert 26 degrees below North Platte 22 de degrees degree's ees below Denver 20 degrees below Grand Junction Junction Junction Junc Junc- tion 14 degrees below and Pocatello 12 degrees below the temperature at Cheyenne and Lander being the lowest lowest lowest low low- est of or record for December I With Salt Lake practically the most I favored section In the entire Intermountain Intermountain intermountain Inter- Inter mountain country and the whole ot of Utah escaping the worst phases of the theBold cold Bold wave little or no damage was reported in the state l From rom Bear Dear lake the news was re received received re- re that trouble was being experienced experienced experienced In Bear near river from slush Ice which was obstructing the flow of water water water wa wa- ter from the Litton Lifton pumping plant A Aa As Asa a result the dynamo and engines have been run at top speed to throw an un unusual unusual unusual un- un usual flow low of ot water for flushing purposes purposes pur- pur poses TRAINS DELAYED Reports received by D. D S. S Spencer I general Jeneral passenger agent of ot the Oregon Short Line showed that train service i had been held up on the tho system by bythe bytho the tho extreme cold prevailing In Idaho 1 and eastern Oregon At Nampa near I I the tho Oregon line the coldest weather I of ot all Is reported at 40 below zero It was 38 below at Soda Springs accordIng accordIng according accord- accord Ing to railroad erport 26 below at Montpelier 18 below at Granger 30 below at Dillon Mont and 10 below at Shoshone Trains have not been seriously seriously seri serl- I stalled but schedules have been generally disarranged G G. A A. Green forest ranger on the Wasatch reserve returned Monday fonday from Big Dig Cottonwood canyon where ho he reported the heaviest accumulation of ot snow for several years ears Sundays Sunday's storm added addel two feet teet of snow at the i I Cardiff mine on the south fork of Big Dig I Cottonwood giving a total of ot five feet At the tho mouth of the canyon canyo there was wasa I a fall of ten Inches giving a total of ot nearly two feet There Is more snow i In the Wasatch mountains at this time j I than during the whole winter last year last SNOW AT WATERSHED I According to C. C Clarence commissioner of or waterworks and water supply the snow situation In the moon moun- so o far as Salt Lakes Lake's water sup- sup py next year far Is concerned is b better I Ithan than It has been in years The blankets blanket already alread on the ground Is heavily packed and should remain all winter A storm of ot some Importance is en- en Continued on page paga 8 S. S MERCURY IN S. S L. L Continued from page 1 1 the Oregon Oregon- Washington Oregon coast which is already causing a rise in temperature temperature temperature tem tem- as far as southeastern Idaho and snow is setting in as far as eastern Oregon This disturbance Is expected to bring higher temperature to Utah and surrounding states with precipitation precipitation precipitation tation by Wednesday in northern Utah |