The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1886-03-06
A BLIZZARD CURE.
The Ingenious System Invented BY HUI
manitarian From Montana.

The Ingenious System Invented BY HUI
manitarian From Montana.
eyes, l am on my way to Washing
ton," replied a man with a buffalo
overcoat and beaver cap who was held
up for an interview at one of the hotels
the other day.
''It is limited that you have made an
important discovery"
$50 l have. l am Captain John
White, of Montana, the man who first
discovered the birthplace of blizzards,
and who invented a cure for them"
'"Tell me about itP"
''Well, have nothing to conceal in
the matter For five winters past ]
have been in the Far West watching
cold waves or billiards. Nineteen out
of every twenty start on line drawn
from Fort Union, in the northern part
of Montana, to Fort Laramie, in South
ern Wyoming. There are mountains,
rivers, valleys and plains on that line,
and these bring about the conditions re-
quired for a radical atmospheric
change"
'Did you ever see blizzard bornP''
"a hundred OF them. "
''What is the operation?"
"Well, for instance, one day last win
ter 1 was in camp on the Powder river,
in Wyoming and directly west of the
Black Hills. 1t was a pleasant, sun
shiny day, and during the forenoon the
wind blew smartly from the Hills. Just
about noon, while 1 was preparing my
dippar N ,o,7ff Of 1xyi,, a fro,,1 +ba oro,, 10
Mountains, to the south, hit me. On
the plains, a mile to the south of me,
and just where two valleys brought
these two different winds to a focus
point, a cloud of snow was lifted high
in air, and the wind began to circle. In
ten minutes the cloud began moving
toward me, and the mercury soon went
down eleven degrees. The cloud bore
to the northeast, struck the north fork
of the Big Cheyenne river, and followed
it east to Fort Sully, spreading its
flanks as it went At Sully it ran down
the Missouri to the Iowa State line.
Here the wave was a hundred miles long.
When it got down to Omaha it was two
hundred miles. 1t left the river
there and went east, and by
the time the center reached
Des Moines one wing was at Min
neapolis, due north, and the other at
Sedalia, due south. From wing to wing
was five hundred miles That wave
took in Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana,
and was kept from Michigan by lake in
fluences, and later on all the Atlantic
coast. from Mainc 70 Virginia was over
spread hv It. That was only one out OF
the many have seen born.
Gould it have been stOpped?''
Certainly. 1t was nc larger than Is
barrel when 1t started.
What is your cure for these cold
waves?"
''Well, I've been experimenting. You
must warm the air as the first step. In
that case you kill the germ and the
blizzard falls fiat. On this line of the
birthplace of billiards., distance of five
hundred miles, base-burner coal stoves
should be set about six feet apart. Ten
thousand stoves might do it, but the
Government might as well add five
thousand more and make sure thing
of it. Each stove would burn, say, nine
tons of coal during the winter. One
man, as 1 figure it, could attend to
five stoves. As all the stoves
would be out of doors, only one
length of pipe to stove would
be required. l figure on saving seventy
eight thousand joints of stove-pipe.
This item alone would pay for most of
the coal Every blizzard costs the coun-
try three million dollars. We have an
average of ten per season. l figure
that l can stop every one for one hum
dred dollars each. This saves the coun-
try twenty-nine million dollars per sea-
son. The Government puts twenty mil
lion dollars in its pocket and hands me
the other nine"
''And you have an idea that your
scheme will be adopted?n
Certainly. The only fear 1 have is
that the Government may want to put
plain stoves off on me, while l shall
stick for the nickel-p plated affairs. There
is no use going into this thing with any
thing cheap. 1 shall return in about a
week, and as will then know exactly
how much l can save on stove-pipe l
hope you will come and see me. This
afternoon l shall try and figure on using
one leg to a stove, thus saving thirty
thousand stove-legs This would pay
for the coal for three hundred and sixty
seven stoves. Don't forget to come and
see me. "-Detroit Free Press.
PERPI FIXING