The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-10-01

Mobile Register.


We have received copy of Signal
Service Orders No. IS, which details
the arrangements which have been
made, with the cooperation of the
railroad and telegraph lines in the
Southern States, to secure reports
of the rainfall and maximum and
minimum temperatures, collected dali
ly with reliability, and disseminated
rapidly throughout the commercial
centres of the cotton belt, from April
LIST to September Both inclusive.
We have also received copy of
the Instruction to Special Observers,
Signal Service, q. s. Army, in the
cotton belt These instructions, while
they are absolute, are easily followed,
and cannot bat prove valuable and
interesting to all classes.
The cotton-growing region is divi-
ded into districts formed with regard
to railroad lines, and to secure the
best telegraphic facilities. The dis
tricts embrace the territory adjacent
to the more important cities where
stations are located. Each has q
center for the concentration of re-
ports which will be known as sub
center, the name of which will be
used to desie nate the district Each
center included q number OF stations.
Several districts will be grouped to-
gother in one division.
The following are the districts and
stations adopted: Divisions and main
centers are: Atlanta, New Orleans,
and Memphis; Districts and sub-cen-
ters are: Savannah, Charleston Will
mington, Augusta, Atlanta, New Or
leans. Mobile, Galveston, Vicksburg,
Montgomery, Memphis, ST. Louis,
Little Rock. The stations are: Ce-
dar Keys, Live Oak, Fla; Albany.
Macon and Columbus, Ga, and Eu-
faula, Ala; Goldborough, Charlotte,
N c.; Columbia and Spartanburg,
s. c.; GAINESVILLE and West Point,
Ga; Pass Christian, Columbus and
Meridian Miss; Morgan City, Mon
roe and Alexandria, La, Evergreen
and State Line, Ala; Houston, Aus
tin, Waco, Dallas and Corsicana,
Texas; Troy. Selma, Uniontown, Tus.
kaloosa. Birmingham, Tuscumbia,
Decatur. Stevenson, Ala; Grand
junction, Tenn; Texarkana, Fort
Smith and Arkansas City, Ark.
The railroads on which the sta.
tons are located are omitted.
At every station observations vii
be made by the railroad authorizes
for rainfall, maximum and minimum
temperatures, direction Of the wind
and state of the weather at six O'CLOCK
p. M, local time. Similar observe
tions win be made ut all sub-centerI
and main centers.
The rainfall and maximum and
minimum temperatures will be SEM
by telegraph to the sub-centers o
districts TO which the stations belong
There the average of rainfall and
temperatures will be made up and
sent by special message to the malr
center of the DIVISION
At each main center the observer
having collected reports from the
sub-center of his division will send
them by special message to the Other
main centers. Reports thus received
at each main center will be sent BY
special message to each sub-centeI
of the signal officers division. The
reports thus received at sub-centerl
will be duly fled and preserved al
Office records. By this interchange
every sub-center will receive for each
day the average rainfall and the near
maximum and the mean minimum
temperature for all the districts in
the cotton belt.
Rules are given for calculating the
average rainfall of a district; and the
mean temperature. The Signal Ser.
vice observer will prepare bulletins
from the report received, and posi-
them at the cotton exchanges and
elsewhere, where they will most ben
eft the public.