Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-01-13
FOSTERS WEATHER FORECAST.
SEVERAL BAD SPELLS OF WEALTH.
En- COMING.
The Disturbances Late This Month
VIII Greatly Increase the Rainfall.
Changing Climates and How They
Come-The Equator Changes.


Come-The Equator Changes.
Copyright, 1896, by w. 7, Foster.
ST. Louis, No. Jan. l2.-My last bull
letln gave forecasts OF the storm wave
TO cross the continent from the 14th to
18th, and the next from Japan by way
OF Behrlng sea. will reach the Pacific
coast about the 18th. cross the western
mountain country by close Of the lsth'
the Missouri valley and Western Texas
the goth. Mississippi valley, Eastern
Texas and upper lakes the 2ist, Ohio
valley. lower lakes and east gulf states
the 22d and the eastern states the 23d.
The warm wave will cross the western
mountain country about the 18th, the
great central valleys the goth ana
eastern states the 22d. The cool waves
will cross the western mountain coun-
try about the 21st. the great central
valleys the 23d and the eastern states
the 25th.
This disturbance will largely increase
the rainfall of this month, consider
able portion OF which, in the northern
states. will be snow.
The cold wave will be most severe
in the eastern states ana SHOWS may De
expected in the far west ABOUT the 5Oth,
upper Mississippi and Missouri valleys
the 22d Ohio valley the 23d and New
England the 2ith.
The month will close out with Goiu
weather In the eastern states ana rising
temperature In the west.
Changing Climntes.
NJ course climates change; some
s,,d1.niv others So imperceptibly that
tSa cba,rea are not noted in the
,,,n,,,or,, ~ Tho human race. A change
in climate sn Gradual as to REQUIRE ten
| thousand Years would be lmperccpti-
bio 10 the human mind and the race
vorId accommodate itself to the new
! en,,iranments SO graually as not to
note Inc constant change to a colder
a.. ,y,,y1er vettnr mr. DRYER climate.
etnnendous change in the climate
! of mo Rocky n1ouutoin country has oc-
! c,,rrgd nrnbablv within ten thousand
vears mast. New Mexico, Colorado
! yvvominp Utah. Idaho and Montana
] orcn constItufed tho switzerland of
| America well waterel and fertile, no
III in,,is h,,t as vei1 adanted to a rri-
ci,Iture as anv mountain country could
| he
At that time urobablv not less than
o,HSt t thnrs land ycarg aEo. that country
We occuried Nv n sunerIor race Of
neonle VINO had made remarkable pro-
-. d., nt,,iiiga,inn
-, ,,,,,,I,ars 30 tho r,utnnies Of
,l,asa ,,o,,,,Ia arc now heinz discovered
"a ,,.i,iI,i,o1 T., no r,,,sa,,y,s and these
, s,,ii,, ne Vol ,raqcrved n q
~ .,' S,,il a., 49, rrbnit, wear.
~ - ''ose - - S ~ ,,rcco nnx
ms s',,r & Iii r,,asor,,ad
anu iu,s, ~ MelI ~ - ~ .,,,., ,,o,rI
lhe purS ii,s siou,.ua "a ,,r,.
/ VI mn wr"lttS -, ,,.tS,,,lt,,,I.r
t2ns III W M. w., 49,, iaJers bss
Shls reacilsu 1islI ~ - ~. 81. t,SiT
ieu 10 the ueilei .ilat NJ l,,L,, n,,d
MONIES IN tnese
they are theFtloie e'i"i1ON9'y
GIN dWellers' ,,
me Huhl Lhuians afe ptUpauly ,,,,,
remnant or TINS once poWeriui haIlo.
and they have very old tradition thai
their ancestors dwelt by the sea.
Geology tells us that the Alieshahy
mountains once eNtehueu tnroubI
Kentucky, Tennessee, southern Illinois
Missouri, Arkansas, lndlan Ierrlo'9
and to the staked plains OF Northwest
ern Texas, We see the worn down re-
mains OF these Ola mountains IN VIM VIM.
are now called the Ozarks, Cum berlanc
and the mountains farther southwest
ward
These mountains, having beer
thrown up by volcanic action before th'
great change in the e0rth's equator
long before any of the Rocky mountains
had been formed and while all tn
Western mountain country and th'
great central valleys were covered by
Il great ocean, formed a mighty dan
that, when the equatorial change low
cred the waters and brought Nortl
America to the surface, formed
great inland sea bounded west by tn
Rockies, south by the Ozarks east b!
the Allcghanies and north by the rldg
running westward through Canada
Among geologists there is no doub
that such sea existed and that SCI
, gave to the Western mountain cOuntr,
, a magnificent climate, fine agricul
tural country, a result OF which was
great race Of intelligent, thrifty PEG
pie.
But the outlet to this inland sea ha,
, its Niagara falls which in time W lr
, away and channel, now part o
, the Mississippi river. was cut throug
. the ozarks. the great inland sea wa
} emptied into the Gulf of Mexico an
, thus deprived OF its source of moistur