Show v BELOW ZERO chris christmas amas eve the coldest night recorded in this vicinity for many years christmas eye eve in brigham city was unusually quiet and exceptionally cold this year the quietness of the tight kight on christmas eve ev is IB usually broken TM oten by sweet trains strains of 0 music bom the coral singers and ty by the merry voices ol of the boys and girls on weir th belr return from shows socials and tian ancene cing parties conditions were decidedly different la in brigham city this year biar due to the extremely cold weather which kept people at home sad and in the house hoube away from the cold lasta blasts and frigid temperature according to carl isaacson iBa acson official ottic fal weather man of 0 this city wednesday night was wag the coldest in the history of brigham city for or many years past at least as tar far back as the memories of 0 the younger generation genera Uon go the iner mercury cury went down to 24 degrees below zero during the night passing all 11 previous records the night before registered 12 degrees below zero according to mr isaacson the heavy tall fall of snow during the early part ot of the week followed by a cold wind tilled filled up the highways impeding automobile traffic tor for a time and aad finally shutting it off entirely the old familiar team and bobsled has aen doen in evidence everywhere taking possession of the roads entirely with the exception of one or two automobiles moving about the streets of the city the highway lead it south from this thia city has hag been closed to auto traffic during the past fw few days and the first cars to break through passed over the road yesterday resident engineer K C wright an ane the county commissioners have had two truck snowplows snow plows working on the road south of this city where the snow know had drifted across the highway to a depth of ahree to rive feet but little headway could be made after the snow had frozen and settled bottled the road through the canyon to logan was also closed yesterday according to reports and the day before only a few cars got through the snow has drifted high on portions of the road ouinto the valley but it is being opened as fast as it it is possible to remove the snow there has been some alarm among the fruit growers and shippers over next years fruit crop it is said that cherry apricot and peach buds are pretty sate safe unless the thermometer goes below 15 to 17 degrees below zero but christmas eve wednesday night the mercury went down to 24 below zero which has caused considerable sid erable anxiety concerning next neat years fruit crop according to carl isaacson district agricultural inspector only about halt half of the terminal buds have been frozen mr isaacson went into his orchard yesterday and procured a limb from one of his bis cherry trees this he kept in the louse house until thoroughly thawed out and an dupon upon examination it showed that abut about halt half of the buds were frozen N nature has a wonderful way of providing tor for itself in case these terminal buds are killed by the frost there are the lateral buds left upon which the grower may depend tor for a good sized crop so with this apos hect the orchards of brigham city and vicinity should yield a crop of fruit next season fully up to the average e it not better As tar far as we can learn this has been about the coldest winter ever experienced in brigham city men who have lived here tor for many years say they have never known ot of the thermometer going down to 20 degrees below zero in the winter ot of course there Is ie one thing to take into consideration era tion end and that Is that during early days the means ot of checking up on the weather was not so effi efficient clent neither were records so carefully kept the mercury did not fall so low last night the official register showing 22 degrees below zero it la is thought that the weather will moderate gradually until it reaches a normal condition again 00 oo |