The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1874-09-03


by furnishing but 18 per cent. (4.53
inches) of her rainfall in these less
genial months; Denver offers 10 per
cent. and Colorado Springs takes best
rank by having but 2 per cent. of her
rain at this season when human health
can least easily tolerate it. Like
Minnesota, Colorado is also favored
in having its high winds in the warm
season.
December and January at this post
we're as mild and delightful as are the
autumn months in your State. On
the last evening of the old year our
ladies sat out on the piazzas without
shawls until long after dark. although
the mean temperature of these two
months was below 80 degrees. Feb
ruary and March were unusually
stormy, but the deposit Of moisture
was only .88 Of an inch for the two
months, while in the same two months
the average rainfall of New York
City would be over aix inches.
-nu-;ne tho three hot months Colo
RADIO can give to invalids more cool
nights than any State lying east of
it; the mean temperate for this peri
cd being 67.45 degrees at Colorado
Springs (and much cooler back in the
mountain towns) to 70.3 in Minneso-
ia and 72 in New York. In the
summer nights the mercury is below
60 degrees average at the Springs.
Out on the plains, we'll away from the
cooling influences Of the snow-clad
peaks, the summer heat pushes the
mercury far higher, so that records
in my possession show the mean temp
erature for June, July and August in
1873 to have been 1872 degrees, while
in 1871 it was 1914! The 2 o'clock
P. NJ, observations at this post gave
us for the July just past mean of
96.87 degrees. But the intense heat
which this represents must be consid-
cred in connection with the intensely
dry air, and, Of course, as a result,
the entire absence of malaria which
gives to all warm and moist countries
q deadliness to which the woes of con-
sumption are hardly less preferable.
Here let me emphasize the fact that
the portions Of country have advis-
ed as sanitariums are entirely free
from those poisonous miasms which
make undesirable residence Of many
States in our Union, so that the in
habitants Of the former are as inno-
cent of quinine as those Of the latter
are of sound livers.
The sanitary benefits of huntin g,
herding cattle, or even travelling SLOW
ly on these great plains have long
been sufficiently we'll known, and
obeying the advice of Western physi.
clans invalids not infrequently spend
a few weeks here with profit before
seeking the higher slopes of Colorado
In the matter of equability there is
not much to say, the fact being that
the climate of nearly every one of the
United States is capricious, but there
can be no doubt that the sections
commended in this article are i'm
measurably superior to the States
east of the Appalachian range in
having much longer spells of unbrok
en- fair weather. In a list before me
of twenty-five localities, taken at large
over the earth, noted for having {
: small range of temperature-say les'
than SO degrees-not one is in th'
3 United States, while in Minnesota tn
3 range is about 40 degrees, and il
Denver last year the mercury rangee
from II below zero to SO above. Per
7 haps New Mexico offers more induce
}, ments in this respect than any othe
s portion of this country, the thermomet
= ric range being less; the rainfall
= varying from 6.76 inches per annun
= at old Fort Conrad to about 20 inch
r es at Santa Fe; the mean annua
: temperature Of the latter place bein'
Y somewhat lower than that of Ne,
|. York its summer heat being less
e while its winter heat is greater; it
l. greatest rainfall occurring in the no
a months.
3 The relief afforded asthmatic ps
;, tients by residence (even if fvery brief
f.; in Colorado is something remark
Ia able in sanitary climatology. La