Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-01-01
FOSTERS WEATHER
We Are Booked for a Severe
Storm and It Viii Reach Us
THE EARLY PART OF JANUARY
We viii Have an Average Crop Of Cotton, Wheat
and Corn This Year, but Not in Every
Part Of the Country Geology
and Climate.
cwntten for rho sunday Gazette.l

written for The Sunday Gazettcl
ST. Joseph Mo-. Dec. 3t.--My last huilo-
cross the continent Jan j TO 3. The next
viii reach the pnCi1c coast about Jan y,
cross the Western mountains By the close
Of the ith, the great central valleys from
9th to 10th and the Eastern states about
This win be n severe storm along its en-
tire path across the continent. and ~ us
average course viii NO, be lar from Mason
& DiHons line, Il VIII AFFECT the Whoie
country.
The cool wave, preceded by rains in the
South and SHOWS IN the North, will cross
the Western mountains about the vth, the
great central valleys about the llh ana
I the Eastern states about the l5th Ihls
/ cool wave WIN cause zero weather ia the
/ Hiy prediction TINT the corn crop Of 1872
/ would be damaged 10 per cent. ana the coz
I ton crop - per cent by the drOuth, mas
/ been verified. The cotton crop Of 1871
| made over 100000 bales. Subtract - per
/ cent. from this end We should have 0VOo'-
/ 90 bnles. but on account " the Alliance
/ influence among the farmers 10 reduce the
/ cotton acreage the crop was thereby re-
/ duccd a million bales.
! Next year We VIII have an average crop
! N cotton wheat and corn. but not iu every
! part of the country. Those who desire iu-
| formation us TO localities must send me an
! addressed and stamped envelope
/ A concise statement and explanation OF
| my theory. how to understand my fore
| casts aud how to foreteli the weather.
should be In the hands OF every person VINO
regularly receives my weather letters. |
| cannot give this through the press because
! II requires twenty live Illustrations. ON re-
cent OF - cents In stamps ] WI se1a my
| pamphlet containing All this Information.
GEOLOGY AND CLIMATE
have given the historical aud legend.
| AIRY evidences going to prove that our moon
came to the curth as comet ana now Tor
the geological evidences.
In Davies county, Missouri three miles
east OF COneyshurg. o. hickory log two feet
IN diameter was found oy my father bur
led under the pipe clay sixty feet under the
surface. The wei, IN which the Jog was
found, was dug on top Or one Of the high
est ridges IN that county.
That pipe clay u the drift. Whence came
&C. That 4 o stupendons question, ana has
ever puzzled ourrc0lngists NJ we can de-
tcrminc the origin ~ the drift We may
ihcu know from whence came the coal
beds
That hickory OK dld not produce the clay
nor did the vegetable gruWtha produce thc
coal beds In which tley are found.
| Biologists toll us thnt we live on a
mighty series on atrauhod rocks from ten to
twenty mllea thick Bclng stlntded proves
| these rocks 90 have bcon laid down In
water, and on top ~ all these many strata
of rocks " folnd the drift composed of
| gravel and clays Where dld i come from
Tho drift, sometimes called ul, H. not
| strnilncd aud therefore wis not laid down
thnt the drift had its origin In iloating Ice
| bCrgs.
from whore no animal life existed, and no
guch n place eau De f0un1 ON this earth,
aud much less could such place be found
az the time the drift buued the animal
The rcninins of no live thing. either Of
vegetable on animal life, is found IN the
drlit, but an inmouso number of such re
mains are found under the drift. How are
| YOU going Co uCcuunt Tor Nll tNiHf
The blue clay IN the Mississippi valley
states sometimes called hard pan " an
or drift. TIE stratihcd rock, on which
this drift restA, are from one 10 eight hun
dred feet below the surface.
This drift could not have been formed by
thousand feet above the Baltic Sea, -four
thousund feet high IN scotland and sls
thousand feet high Ia New England.
Tile stones of the drltt are strangely
marked, strlutcd. scratched, viii lines par
allol TO their longest diametera, and sucl
stones are never found ON the zen shores
ia the rivers nor among the gWvrls that
are wughed down out OF the M ,untuins.
Tho drlft does not run through the hills
~ do many strata OF rock, but over On,
thicker IA the latter than ON the former
showing that II must have fallen Ike snow
aud was afterwards crncd into the val
| lcys by Winds or rulua,
There are many geological evidences tha
| before the drift was deposited the water
were COCO feet deep ga New England 40V
the Rocky mountains But ma the orlglnp
DRIFT Is not Strntihed, II D. not therclof'
laid down IN water but was deposited afte
the Writer'S had subsidized. +"
Geikie. the great geologlst, says there q
| no resemblance between tho drift or on
and the debris deposited by glaciers aus
! that no clay is found with glacier dcpusits
| The TN, therefore. could not have origin
nted In the glacier.
There is no drift In northern Asia, non,
| IN the United States west OF Iowa. All th
| country east OF Missouri aud west OF ASH
~ covered by the drift How comes IL tina
| two-nfths or the earth Is covered 10y thl
drifts, while three'hflhs have no drift de
The rocks OF this drift district ar,
Z | scratched, cut strlatod, ON the north sid
Of the mountains nnd not on the south Side
n these had been caused 10y the freezing
thawing and action of the atmosphere. the
would be found on the south side OF th
, | mountains
/. The Sahara desert sand Il undorlald b,
unstratlned tlll or mineral clay, aud there
fore tnat drlft must have been deposltet
= | there before the sahara sea existed. Cni
, You imngine how that unstratlhed lin o
l. mineral clay got thereY
{ While travelling In Alabama | found de
/ pOslts OF pebbles a hundred feet thick
Southwest OF birmingham are vast drlft
: Of the most beautiful pebbles OF many col
+, 0rs and Of shapoa similar 90 the butte
l bean. Where aid they come frum3
, ] can quote the very highest authority 10
, nh these statements There are other lm
, portuut facts not eNplolnnhe by preEen
, theories. A recent writer SAYS 'lu form
or ages tropical plants and a genial clinnt
Z 40 extended as 10 nourlsh foresss or bcechca
4 naples, Waluuth. pOplnrs and magnolia
p I'm Greenland and Spitzhergen while a FOR
elgn vegetation covered the numerous vnl
leys OF England"
. Dr, Dawson says; "n north Greenlan,
! latitude 20, at an elevation OF more than 1
e Thousand feet above the sea- are founl
= beeohes, Oaka pines. poplars mNpps wal
B nuts, mngnollQs lines and vines ana IN
I remains OF Similar plants are found h
Switzhergen in latitude 10"
Tho reader may not readily see tho rela
= ti0n Of the drift 90 these remains OF tror
\ lcal plants In the arctic regions. hut Their
{ "a n relation, and the explanation of on
+ VIII account for the presence OF the other
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