The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-12-19

Its Climatic Advantage Stand Out in
Bold Contrast With Our Own.

Bold Contrast With Our Own.
The following extract from a letter received
by gentleman of this city from a friend in
Nebraska who recently made tour Of inspec-
ton OF this state and cOntemplates an early re-
moval here. will be appreciated by all sojourn.
ers on the Sound who have not forgotten the
winters, and the summers, too, OF the great
middle West stretching from the Lakes to the
Rockies:
am reminded this morning of your question,
"Why do you want to leave Nebraska" The
mercury was at zero at sunrise. and the wind is
blowing fifty miles an hour. No man who had
ever lived in this country would ask question
OF that kind. travelled two months in Mon
tana and Washington, at all elevations, in all
temperatures, in all degrees of dry and moist
air, drank all kinds OF water and ate all kinds
OF abuses in the way OF cooking. / went
out OF summer heat at Helena and drove three
days through a snowstorm over the Belt mount
aims. During the trip did not have u cold or
so much as an ill-feeling. Within forty-eight
hours after my return 10 Nebraska had de-
ve.opsd s,S s9i I on my lungs requiring treat.
through, bilious attack, slight case of neu-
raIgia and few other minor ills. There is too
much excitement about this climate
/ have seen dust storms il Lincoln for three
days so one could not see across the street, and
thirteen days of blizzard here in a month and
half, during which one could not see hundred
yards at any time l have had the roof of a
hotel picked of over my head in Lincoln by the
edge of a cyclone that four blocks away ieyeied
a three-story brick building to the ground: had
q hat that l never saw again taken off my
head by Nebraska zephyr: seen q man picked
up on the street in Lincoln by the
wind and slapped down on the sidewalk like a
shingle: seen plate glass windows smashed in
mot blown ouD by the wind, and seen from
our Office window the second and third stories
OF brick building Knocked off from the first
into the street by the same agency. / have
known lightning TO strike in half dozen places
within half-miie OF me within half an hour
have seen thunder showers the last day of
December and snowstorms the last day of Nav
have walked home with summer clothing on
and no oyercoat at o'clock at night, while the
people were sitting out of doors on the porches,
and have frozen my face and ears at 8 o'ciock
the next morning while walking two blocks to
breakfast / have seen the mercury at IS deg
below zero in winner and at IFS deg Tin the
shadel above in the summer. / have seen in
July thirteen days aud nights of hot wind,
during which the mercury did not go below 100,
and in which corn fields promising fifty to
seyenty-hve bushels to the acre were burned to
worth lessueSs- Since have been here in Me-
brassa have known q half-doZen towns to be
swept practically OIL from the earth by:cyclones
and / have spout quite a number of ghours
watching them the cyclones, not the towns)
gather in the Northwest. with my chair con-
venientiy located with reference TO an open
cellar door, prepared TO slide" Ii they came my
way. All these extremes are stimulating and
keep a man awake; but even stimulation De-
comes monotonoGs. This country is too change
FIJI. have not spoken OF the electrical storms.
which are violent enough TO straghteu out
curled hair and To galvanixs a dead ca. into
activity; nor of the floods which come every
two three years. making lakes OF all the bot
tom lands, through which We have three times
had to go 10 the bank Ion the other side OF town.
in boat. In way, like Nebraska; there is
something robust aud hearty about IL Yet I
think If | could go to some country where they
did not have anything more destructive than
earthquakes and volcanoes for few years IL
would be pleasan. and restful change. .
Next week we will probably decide on point in
the West IN which 10 locate. am inclined 10
think IL will be either Seattle or spokane Each
offers advantages peculiar to itself, though I
have no doubt Whatever that Seattle will always
he the better town.