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at 11:30 a. m. 29.5°; 12, noon, 30°. The temperature, therefore, does not 

 stand as high as the freezing point, which is 32°. Ice on the roof, in a tub 

 thoroughly exposed to the full force and effect of the weather, was one and 

 one tenth inches in thickness at 9:20 a. m., and at noon was the same. In 

 fact, the hole that was cut to measure the ice was closed by a thin film of 

 congelation. 



Along the Railroad Lines — What the Thermometer Showed at 



Seven This Morning. 



At 7 o'clock this morning the temperature was as follows at the railway 

 stations indicated: Truckee, 25° below zero; Summit, 12° below zero; 

 Cisco, 3° above zero, and six inches of snow; Emigrant Gap, 8°; Blue 

 Canon, 7°; Towles, 8°; Gold Run, 7°; Colfax, 16°; Auburn, 26°; Newcastle, 

 20°; Rocklin, 20°; Sacramento, 22°; Tehama, 34°; Nord, 17°; Chico, 20; 

 Biggs, 25°; Marysville, 20°; Lincoln, 20°; South Vallejo, 22°; Napa, 26°; 

 Calistoga, 24°; Suisun, 26°; Elmira, 25°; Davisville, 24°; Woodland, 20°; 

 Knights Landing, 28°; Dunnigan, 29°; Williams, 23°; Willows, 28°; Orland, 

 22°; Corning, 26°; Red Bluff, 30°; Wheatland, 24°. 



["Daily Kecord-Union," January 16, 1888.] 



Cold Wave Once in Forty Years. — The Cold Wave of January, 

 1854, Almost Equaled by the Present Cold Spell. 



For the second time in thirty-four years an extraordinary cold wave is 

 sweeping down upon the Pacific Coast. The Signal Service reports show 

 the minimum or lowest temperature on Saturday and yesterday (Sunday) 

 to have been 19°. It has not been so low as that before since January, 

 1854, when the same temperature was recorded by the late Dr. Thomas M. 

 Logan, the then meteorologist of this city. For the sake of comparison, I 

 visited the city's free library to find a copy of the old " Sacramento Union" 

 for January, 1854, but there were no copies so early as that date, in the 

 library, of that particular paper. There was a copy of the Sacramento 

 " Daily Democratic State Journal." From the columns of its local news I 

 find considerable very interesting reading, just at present, for the citizens 

 of our city. If the dates were left out, the articles would very well refer to 

 the present almost unprecedented cold weather. The articles copied from 

 the above named paper are as follows: 



Saturday, January 7, 1854. — Yesterday was a clear, calm, cold day. We were shown ice 

 yesterday morning, one and one quarter of an inch thick, the thickest ever seen, we 

 believe, in Sacramento. The night of Thursday (5th) was unusually cold. 



The following would do for a good description of the last three days of 

 our present cold spell: 



Monday, January 9, 1854.— The weather has been unusually cold the past three days 

 Yesterday, in riding a short distance in the country, we noticed, as late in the day as 3 

 o'clock, ice in considerable quantities in the marshes by the roadside. Such an occurrence 

 was never noted before. 



To show that the cold wave of 1854 did not stop at Sacramento, the fol- 

 lowing article from the " Democrat" will prove: 



Wednesday, January 11, 1854.— The Stockton "Journal" has been shown a piece of ice 

 three inches thick, that was formed on Thursday (5th) night last. 



