Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-13
New York Weather.

Arizona stands possible chance of be-
 coming a summer resort for the perspir-
 ing people of tie East, judging from the
 following account of the heat, taken
 from the New York Herald of July 30th
 The sun-kissed land IS cool compared
 with the city of New York. The Herald
 says:
 Although the weather does not prom
 ise to be as hot to-day as 1t has been
 during the week, ne one should forget
 that the heat of the past several days
 has had very weakening effect. What
 to do on Sunday is generally an impor-
 tant question to at least half the pOpula-
 tiOn of the city during the summer
 months, but to-day the answer to every
 one should be, take it easy. Those who
 will suffer most will probably be the
 thoughtless crowd that will hurry to the
 side by the earliest boats and trains,
 Co walk on hot sands that reflect the
 suns glare, and then to struggle for
 seats on crowded hotel piaZzas. The
 seashore is always a safe Tt when
 one IS sure of shelter when 1t IS wanted,
 but to be compelled to face burning
 sands while a pitliess sun pOurs down
 from overhead and its rays are reflected
 from glassy waters is about as severe
 punishment as a man could desire for
 his worst enemy. Any one whose house or apartment contains a room that does not present an outer wall to the sun, and through winch the air can circulate, can
 be surer of comfort at home than at any other place. At home one can put of clothing to an extent that the police at a popular resort will not tolerate, and
 tO certain extent he can control the
 temperature of the air 4 few wet
 towels hung on the backs of chairs will
 lower the heat of a shaded room several degrees; so will newspapers lad on the floors and sprinkled with water. Such attention to diet as will prevent the use of heating foods and drinks will also tend greatly tO physical comfort. More beneficial than all, however, will be the determination to rest. After such an ordeal as that which every one has pass ed through during the week, rest IS of more consequence than stimulation or change of scene. If stimulants seem necessary those that are weakest are sure to be best. Good wine is surer, though 1t may be slower than any sort of spirits. Light beer is stIll better; and tea taken cold and without sugar or milk is the most comforting stimulaut for the season. Any desired exercise should be taken late in the day If an excursion seems absolutely ly necessary 1t | will be more enjoyable after few hours l rest at home. An hour m the country 1 or on the beach after sunset IS worth | more than half day in the sunlight | The hot weather is not yet over and the l n g.F al. T ly by repairing damages, but by accu- l n reserve of strength with | which to begin the week.
 In the North American Review for August, Dr. C. A. White has an inter | esting article on artesian wells on plains. | He was one of the members of the Geo. logical Commission appointed tO report | upon the location of artesian wells and | to examine the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountain country with regard to this question. in pursuance of the appropriation of 1880. The actual work done under that ap- was the boring of a well eight hundred feet deep in the valley of the Arkansas, near Fort Lyon, Colorado. At that point the work was stopped, by reason of the exhaustion of the appro- priation and because the geologists re- ported that the location was unfavor- able. Dr. White has come to the con clusiOn that 1t IS impracticable to bore lrtesian wells for Irrigating purposes on the great plains, and he gives his req sons. These are, in brief, that the rock strata O1 the plains have their edges up- turned against the western mountain ,hain; that whatever wateris to be found by boring must be found in the perviOus strata, being carried in them from where t entered at the mountain edge, the c cal rainfall being insufficient to have my perceptible effect, and the imper- riOus rocks preventing it iOining the water below. The formation in which le would expect the water to be held md carried, are the Jurassic and Trias- 'ic. On the plains between the Arkan- ias and the South Platte, the former would be reached at a depth of not less han two thousand feet, and the latter t from six to eight hundred feet deeper. you go eastward this depth might be to decrease materially and apIdly: but the need of an artificial sup ply of water also decreases in the same