| Show FROM SOUTHERN california san bernardino feb 7 having heard numerous reports of the ex cold weather which has visited all parts of utah during the month just passed I 1 have thought that your readers might be interested in hearing something of how king winter has been serving us in this so fio called land of sunshine the prolonged and extreme cold in the north aad east is a condition n not a known in years and the old residents of southern california say the same thing of the weather during the past month they say they have known of two or three very cold days at a time but never of such a long spell of cold weather so I 1 suppose we have received the tip end of jack frosts work in the east on several nights the thermometer fell as low as 22 above zero and then it was was time for the orange arl growers to become anxious regarding the fate of the ibe immense orange crop ra raised isad in this section of coun try there are several methode of warming the atmosphere in the P orange groves when the thermometer them ometer falls so low but I 1 think the one most used to Is the burning of bales of hay hav among the trees during one night last month one man Is said to have burned ten tons of hay hay Is worth 10 per 4 ton but he saved 2000 worth ot of i oranges by sacrificing that much hay haar hence it ivas was a paying investment some of the oranges were frosted but the loss will not be so heavy aw a was at first supposed this heavy fro frost th y was followed by the other extreme 1 and in less than three days the ther dometer rose to 87 in the shade in fact it was almost too warm for comforte com fortT rl above the city of san on a slightly elevated plateau called z highlands many e eastern astern people have built beautiful homes and have planted around them extensive S of the orange the lemon and anad ther olive and in driving along their be beatts ticul dalves bordered on either atao with palm trees and roses and many I 1 9 other kinds of ornamental trees esa II 11 shrubs and between e ese s e c catchin at c I 1 1 AW glimpse of rows of trees bend bendl eStl neath a load of golden fruit an atts stretching far away into the dista distance c one can scarcely realize that it la is mid winter and 20 degrees below zero i juat on the other side of the sierra anva nevada mountains the farmers have had grave apprehension for their crops on account of having little rain so but we are having a rain now and enough biray may yet come to save them this is a beautiful country and it has many addan still my sentiments are and allt t be for fair utah my home and pray j ing na ever for the welfare and haPpi of her people CLA CLARA RA CLYDE |
