Telegram-herald., 1890-05-12
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years AZ vlsSssd Fux1 Riley kAa..
~hs1 The military reports rstsrred 70 Il
- on tie ~es1ern border = ths thlcAiy
hzoitAb-e rsgaon. sEa talked WIN otaoers
And rradzrs u Ellsworth. = hEEs oeyu1A.
zs 'Ho2 ne scge II ths Gro@E Ag2erlcsa
Desert. IL The valleys there Nsss sor1
sgra-x ard \ SOFT II sd NortnwSrd and
Eortbe@stward-and I especially recall
Pzwnee county. ksb.-the oounEry " Is
covered by tAe 'hATd grass II the
piSIIA.;" that Is. sort Of buncked Snd
seeded grass which formed 10 sd. CO
ing westward on the Platte found very
httle sd beyond Loap Fora The won-
derrul change II al that meridian l
know, for have seen A.
have heard more curious things, for
which cannot personally yo1ch. Many
witnesses say that Tor many yeas the
border between the son grass II the Ms
souT1 valley and tie regular plains grass
Travelled regularly westward Al the rate
Of TWO OF three miles per year During
al those years and many more al west
ern New Nexleo and northern Arizona
were certainly growing dryer. for
found many recently extinct lakes and
abandoned fields in which the NayajOes
had raised good crops Of corn thirty
years before. AT the same time the val
leys about Beaver, Utah, were gaining
moisture 50 rapidly that broad stretches
remained green nearly all summer and
AZ salt Lake Gty there WAS at least one
heavy rain each month Ia the summer Of
1874. Now what could have caused this
change except the presence and work Of
the Caucasians can imagine no other
reason which fits all the facts
In Australia the changes have been
stupendOus. Vast tracts on which the
summer heat was almost intolerable have
become comparatively temperate The
air Is stll hot, but there is a softness in
II which makes IL far more agreeable; the
nights are more refreshing, the breezes
more cooling. and III the vicinity of eul-
| tivated tracts even the desert air is less
| prostrating. Old settlers in California
insist know not how truly-that thun-
der Is now often heard IN localities where
IL was unknown az the time Of the dig
gings," and few pioneers testify 10 per-
sonally noting the fright Of Indians there
when they first heard thunder The old
est reports Of explorers speak Of the
| Cherry creek country as rainless in sum-
| mer; but have seen rain storms in Den
yer which would be rated o. violent
and protracted" even in the Ohio valley.
A recent writer on Egypt asserts that
| rain has fallen ofteDer since the English
! took possession. On the other hand, the
ruins of Roman aoueducts and fount-
tains and evidences Of cultivated fields
have been discovered so far down in the
SaharN as to prove that the limit Of cul-
tiyation WAS once far south Of the pres
ent limit, and we know in reason that
when Northern Africa had eighty Chris
tian bishopTics it must have held at least
ten times as many people as now. The
Aryan or Caucasian race ruled IL then.
There are many reasons for believing
that the habits Of this race and their
methods Of culture improve the climate.
On the other hand il is TO be noted
that seasons Of the old fashioned kind
| come at intervals TO western Kansas and
Nebraska and TO Utah and Colorado; and
it is important to know whether this is
always TO be so, or whether long contin-
ued cultivation will not finally make the
increased rainfall permanent. Nebraska
presents this curious anomaly: consider
ably more than half the grain produced in
was only twenty-five years ago marked
as the limit of possible farming without
irrigation. 1t is also a question if irri-
eating all the valleys lying in proper
locations therefor will not make all ths
adjacent uplands cultivable by increas-
ing the rainfall. J. II. BEADLE-