Connecticut western news., 1879-03-19
Let Emigrants Westward Look Out 1!
A CONFECTIONERY HILLS THEM OF A
 TRAP THAT IS SET FOR THEM.

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 The Cincinnati Enquirer says:-An awful trap is being set for credulous' emigrants. Thousands of these emi- grants are settling west of the rain belt, and they don't know it. They are going out too far on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, the Kansas Pacific, the Union Pacific, and the Northern Pacific Rail roads. --..- ..
 "Where is the drought line ?" asks the reader.
 "Draw a line from Austin, Texas, to Bismarck, Minn., on the Northern Pacific, and all west of that line is the drought country. Five years out of eight crops will entirely fail west of this line. Last year was an exception to the rule, and this is why so many emigrants are venturing too far West this year. The land sharks are deceiving them, and are pushing vast army of emigrants into 8 famine region"
 What makes this region west of the hundredth parallel desert region ?"
 Because it rains just as much water as there is water evaporated each year. If it rained more water than is evaporated it would run down into the ocean, and | the land would soon be covered with water. Rains run to the ocean in rivers, and the air evaporates the water of the ocean and carries it inland. Clouds form rainfalls, and back goes the water on to the earth, then into the ocean again. Now, before the air from the | Gulf or ocean reaches Bismarck, or the middle of Nebraska or Kansas, this wet air which started from the ocean becomes dry. There is no water in it; the water has all fallen out of it in rain, and it has run back to the sea. D..
 "But why is San Antonio subject to drought when it is so close to the Gulf P
 "Because the air of San Antonio, on the Staked Plains in Texas and in Arizona, comes up through Mexico. It is dry before it starts. It does not come from the Gulf. Mexico is hot. A perpetual current of hot, dry air blows over Mexico and fans Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado witt atmosphere as dry as wind from the Desert of Sahara. This dry air current blowing up from Mexico and Arizona strikes the high mountains in Colorado Here, in the centre of the continent within seventy-five miles of Pike's Peak are the source of the Red, Colorado Rio Grande, Arkansas, and Missour Rivers. This is the backbone of Nortl America. The high, cold peaks con dense any moisture that there may b. in the air coming up from the south and makes it into snow. Then this cold dry air passes on up the centre of tn continent, making perpetual desert : It prevents any damp air from coming east of the Tooth parallel. When W reach the northern Pacific and Manitob another current of wind, damp current , blows from the Pacific Ocean. Ther , is no desert there, where the Paciti wind heads off the wind from Mexico. 7 "Now, I say, thousands of innocer emigrants have taken up farms durin the last year west of the rain paralle : Of course, they will be ruined, and 70
 will see them coming back broke } hearted and discouraged.
 "Will it always be desert west ( the Tooth parallel" ,--... "Yes, until the Almighty changes th course of the winds, takes down tn mountain peaks, and stops the cloud 3 from raining all their water out in tn . East before they get to the desert"