Arizona citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Pima County, A.T. [i.e. Ariz.]) 1870-1880, 1876-08-12
THE CITIZEN.
AUGUST IL, 1916
Change of Seasons and why.

Heavy transforms are becoming fire.,
louent in sections wherein few years
Iago they were unknown in the Sum
liner months. The rains of July 6 this
year in various parts of California
were unprecedented. About July Is a
terrific rain and thunderstorm prevail
led in Nevada, and thereupon the Re
mo Journal was moved to ask PROBES
sor Frank Stewart to give an opinion
or his reasons for the unreasonable
storm. Following is a part of the
Professors reply, which is quite inter
esting:
In all regions of the earth where
transforms are frequent during the
Summer months, earthquakes are
rarely experienced, simply for the rea-
son that the negative and positive cleo
trical currents of the earth and air find
constant equalization through the sur
rounding moisture. 1t must be borne
in mind that the sO-called positive and
negative electrical fluids are constantly
attracting each other, and that they in
stantly flash together and seek stand
ard of equilibrium through every pos
sible means of conduction. For many
wears after the American settlement on
This coast thunder-stOrms in California
were almost unknown. There was mol
possible means of an equalization of
the aerial and terrestrial electricities
through the vaporless atmosphere, and
when the clouds of Autumn did i'm
pinge upon the negatively-charged ST.
erras, violent earthquakes were sure to
follow. As palliative to those unwel-
come disturbers, we are indebted t0l
the Central Pacific and Union Pacific
Railroad Companies, and also to the
overland telegraph companies for the
establishment of permanent system
of electrical equalizers. 1t only re-
auires about the quarter of a second of
time for electricity to travel from st.
Louis to San Francisco, and as iron is |
one of the best conductors for the sub
tie fluids, we can readily perceive that
railway irons and unbroken
telegraph wires are silently and con-
stantly equalizing the electrical condi-
ton of both sides of the continent,
and instead of producing violent earth
ouakes in isolated localities, the mys-
FERROUS forces are now generating
frightful thunder-storms all over the
Long since / promulgated
the theory that there is current of
above the regions of clouds.
Professor Loomis fully demonstrated
that such a current actually exists, and
it is strange that meteorologists are so
tardy in observing that every flash of
which descends from pass
ing rain-clouds, is simply the positive
electrical current of the air seeking
the negatively charged earth. While
it is reasonable to suppose that the
iron tracks of the transcontinental
railway, are constantly equaliZing the
electrical conditions of the country,
and by that means are producing
frightful thunder-storms in unexpected
localities, there are substantial reasons
for believing that these great iron con-
uuNNoAo ulC NHuolhE pOoAbANO NilhldtlS
changes all over the continent. AL
ready the United States Geological
Surveyors have gravely call the atten-
ton of the government to the curious
fact that, since the completion of the
overland railway, transforms now oc-
eur in regions where it rarely rained
new forms of vegetation are
.pringing up in desert places, and that,
in a broad belt of country on both
sides of the road, the moisture is now
80 much more abundant than before
hat the Indians cannot dry their buffa-
10 meat in this curiOusly-affected zone.
Arizona will by and by have through
ALWAYS and telegraphs, and with them,
We may expect some changes in our
and if we should be favored
With increased rain-falls, the change
;annOt come to soon, although no
,ther interior portion Of the United '
States is now so highly favored with
summer rains.