Northwest History. State History Weather Conditions, Cont'd Spokane, Cont'd 1937 & 1938 Weddings & Divorces. United States.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1932
• Subjects: low temperature; Naches; Yakima river; Creston; Washington; light company; Benton; Idaho; Wenatchee; Alaska; Nome; Fort Yukon; engineers; Richland; destruction; Granger; Columbia river; farmers; Tamarack; Northwest Pacific > State History > 20th Century; United States > Weather Cond. Continued; Misc. Towns; Continued; Spokane; T To Z; Walla Walla; Yakima; Weddings & Divorces; Divorces A > -Z; Weddings; Weddings A > -K; Weddings K > -L. > 20th Century; Pacific; Wilbur; Yukon
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/161430

Fight Ice Jams In Two Rivers: Yakima City Intake and Naches Power Houses Keep Crews On Firing Line. FIGHT ICE JAMS IN TWO RIVERS. Yakima City Intake and Naches Power Houses Keep Crews On Firing Line. 400 SHEEP MAROONED. Gorged Channels In Lower Yakima River Flood Lowlands—Mercuries Stay Low. The worst effects of the low temperatures that gripped the Inland Empire for their ninth straight day yesterday were being felt in the Yakima country, where ice jams in the Yakima and Naches rivers were causing more concern. Although virtually all corners of the region reported maximum temperatures higher yesterday than any day since the cold snap set in, affording some relief during the day, night temperatures remained low, most of them but little higher than the average for the last week and a half. The lowest reported yesterday morning was 2 below, at Creston, Wash. Crews Protect Water Intakes. Yakima reported day and night crews constantly at work protecting the city's domestic water intake against clogging by ice, with other crews likewise engaged freeing slush ice from the intake of the Pacific Power and Light company's power house near Naches and the reclamation power house in the lower Naches valley, both in the Naches river. The mile-and-a-half ice jam in the Yakima river near Granger was still intact yesterday, but flood waters above it were not rising and engineers decided to await warmer weather before attempting to break it loose. The for blasting it free would prove prohibitive. 400 Sheep Marooned. Kennewick reported ice jams numerous in the lower Yakima river, from several miles south of Richland to seven miles above town. Two miles of accumulated ice threatened destruction of the Fallon bridge, on the Richland-Prosser highway. Benton county crews yesterday began using dynamite to prevent ice jams around the piers of several menaced bridges in that region. The jams, rising several feet above the normal river level, have backed water over much farm land and pasture and some stock has been marooned. At one place 400 sheep have been isolated by ice and water. Farmers have moved much hay from lowlands but it was believed last night that much of it would be lost. While a break in the weather was being awaited, the Columbia river at Kennewick was still open, but filled by floe ice and its banks lined by ledges several inches thick. Low Temperatures Reported. Among yesterday's low temperatures were the following: Washington — Wenatehee, Yakima and Ellfmsburg. zero; Wilbur and Nespelem, 2 above; Walla Walla, 3 above; Longview, 9 above; Bellingham, 21 above; Seattle, 31 above. Idaho—Coeur d'Alene, 1 above; Burke, 2 above; Mullan, 3 above; Wallace, 4 above; Interstate, 7 above; Juliaetta, 10 above; Tamarack, 17 above. Nome, Alaska, kept pace with the Washington coast, with 28 above yesterday, but at Fort Yukon it was 22 below.