Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-05-02
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NOTE AND COMMENT

The Orland News publishes a twelve
page edition this week, containing we'll
written sketch of the natural advantages of
Colusa and Tehama counties. Such a
paper is credit TO the town in which it
is published, and deserves the support it
is evidently receiving.
c. c. Powning, editor and proprietor of
the Neudda State Journal, offers that paper
and his other property in Reno for sale,
and intends removing to San Francisco.
Mr.. PowniDg has been publishing paper
IN Reno for twenty-one years, and has done
as much towards the prosperity of that city
as any man in it.
The new British Minister is one of the
most skilled of English diplomatists. Sir
Julian Pauncefote has seen such long
service in the British Foreign office, and
has had so much to do with the instruction
of Ministers and Consular Officials, that it
can be accepted as fixed conclusion that
no such blunder as that which Inundated
the late Minister Sackville West will occur
under the Pauncefote representation.
The enterprising fellow who went into
Oklahoma with carload of collins, found
that the demand was not equal to his
ability to supply, but he had speculated
better than be knew. Hearing of district
where the scarcity of lumber material had
caused the price of that staple to advance
enormously, he seized upon the oppor-
tunity and transferred his cargo to that
point. with the result that his collins were
speedily sold for lumber which was fash
Toned into dwellings for the living. The
spirit of enterprise in America knows no
such word as fail.
General Greedy, the Chief Signal Officer
of the U. S. A., and in charge of the Me-
neurological Signal Service, has issued from
the Government Printing Office a work
upon the rainfall of the Pacific coast and
some of the Great Basin territories, that is
OF the highest value to those sections. 1t
is quarto OF over hundred pages, supple
mented by fifteen elaborate maps in colors,
which, after the manner of those used by the
Census Bureau, show at glance the meteor
illogical fact sought for, and indicate where
and how to search out the details in the ac-
companying text and exhaustive tables.
The book Is an accurate report upon the
rainfall in Washington Territory, Oregon,
California, Idaho. Arizona, Nevada, Colo
RADIO, Wyoming, New Mexico, the Indian
Territory and Texas. The period treated
varies with the different sections, and COW
ers from two to forty years of time This
report was originally transmitted to Con-
gress by the Secretary of War, who took
occasion to express TO that body his opin-
ION Of the high importance and great value
of the work. The conclusions reached by
the Signal Officer are very encouraging to
the trans Mississippi and the trans Mis-
souri, sections-that the rainfall in those re-
gions, heretofore so much afflicted with
drought, is steadily increasing. The extent
to which forests are factors in the amount
of precipitation of, and the outlook for IT.
ngation in the far West and upon the lands
OF some OF the central States and Terrific
ries, ale among the subjects treated in this
important contribution to meteorological
science. The book IS of the greatest value,
as we discover by hasty scanning, and we
are convinced that deliberate examination
will develop it as one of the most impor-
tant documents that has come from the
Government press in recent years.