| Show FROM 1 TURLOCK Editor Free Press Your paper comes to us every week and we enjoy enJoy en en- Joy It very much I thought perhaps some some of your readers would like to know the kind lot ot of weather we have o had this winter in fu this part of California so will write briefly The rain rainy 8 season SOIl set in about December De De- December cember 20 but lasted only About 3 weeks this year though it usually lasts all of January and Into ary arr During the rainy spell it was cloudy cloudy nearly every day the mercury mercury freezing and ry n scarcely got below helow it rained gently about three times a a. week About January 1 10 rain ceased ceased ceas ceas- ceased ed weather got some colder coMer mornings mornings morn morn- foggy ings wore were usually frosty or and balance of oC day a bright On the coldest mornings Ico Ice was one halt inch to one Inch thick and ground froze raze to depth of about 2 Inches Since January 25 weather has been warmer mornings frosty or fozzy of and bright and pleasant balance day as a rule Farmers are plowing and will plant lant potatoes In a few days Sonic Some sowed oats before Christmas which are arc now up and growing These will be harvested h. about June 10 the land laud immediately plowed and All All somo some other crop put 1 Into it kinds of building work has gone right along even along oven brick walls being put up In In- what Turlock-what Turlock what little freezing weather we e have haye had has not caused caus- caus caus caused a s- s ed cd this work to stop Almond trees will be he in bloom b by the the Ins and apricots and p peaches aches soon after aCter that date There are Just a few orange trees here hero and the fruit ripens in January and February bu buthis but this year where trees were not protected pro the freezing weather killed the oranges on the tho trees This Is unusual unusual unusual un un- usual so old settlers say the say the pas past month has been een the coldest here for foi years years and and to make matters worse o this part of or California had a coat roa coal famine Carnine lasting the entire month an and only partially partial relieved relie as yet ret The Tile fuel question Is quite a ser serous serf serl ous problem m here No coal is mined mine anywhere near and good coal costs cost 10 to 12 per ton in Turlock Some Som SomeI lof I lof of our best coal comes from Castle Castl CastleGate CastleGate Gate Utah Good wood is scarce scare and sells at 10 to 14 per cord core according to quality But nut during th the coal famine the supply of dry woo Wood was a a. long way short of the demand demant so people had to get along with green greenwood greenwood greenwood wood slabs shipped in from the tho sawmills saw saws mills or anything the they could get get get- not half baIr so good as the nice dry cedar or pinion that basin people can have Just for the hauling I was fortunate in getting a ton of or coal before the supply Ju jn town gave out and ande we e had a little dry wood so we e have 0 gotten along pretty well so eo far and everybody is hoping that plenty of or coal will soon come como in By Uy the way San Francisco has had a committee investigating the reason for the coal shortage out hero but It seems they cannot t find nd out nut exactly who is responsible for it We moved InU into our new house in November but the the I painting will not be bo finished until next summer The Thc house is much like our residence in My Myton ton but not so large It largo it has five rooms besides tho the porch and closets We have hao a It bored well 6 inches in diameter and 57 67 feet teet deep cased first 34 feet below surface Water rose In well to within ten feet of oC surface and Judging from other wells in tho the vicinity I think the supply supply supply sup sup- ply of water is practically inexhaustible such hIe-such ble such good water too too too- so soft sort and cle clear r and no bad taste nor odor Mrs Hahn Halm and I send best wishes to all our old friends who read the I Free Press Though we found some things here hero different from what w we expected on the whole we like th the place Sincerely J J. J 0 O. O HAHN |
