Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1913 — SEVERE COLD SPELL HITS ENTIRE WEST [ARTICLE]

SEVERE COLD SPELL HITS ENTIRE WEST

Orange and Lemon Growers in California Hard Hit—Thirty Below Zero in Montana. So far Indiana has escaped severe storms and extreme cold. The temperature much of the time since last Saturday has beep but little bel6w freezing and the coldest was about 10 above zero. Throughout' the northwest, however, there has been a severe cold snap and dispatches report that from San Bernardino to Los Angeles, CaL, every acre of oranges and lemons have been frozen. The loss is estimated at $40,000,000. Unusual cold caught the majority of growers unprepared and it is said only about one-fifth of the crop can be salvaged. The mercury is reported to have sunk to 30 degrees below‘zero at Miles City, Mont. At Pueblo, Colo., it was 22 below; at Denver 18; at Cheyenne 24. The storm swung far into the southwest, also, and at El Paso, Tex., is was only 6 above, while at Amarillo it was 2 below.