Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-04-27
THE GREAT RIVER.

| HE OkEAT RIVER.
 Historic passages in the bible refer tC
 the fountains of the great deep and sa,
 they were broken up when Noah's looG
 occurred. Probabilities are that tb;:
 was literally true.
 | The great deep still remains but it. | fountains are not now sufficiently ex | tensive to cause general flood such ai | evidently occurred in the misty anC | mysterious psst, if we are to credit the
 very strongest geological evidences. Instead of calling 1t the great deep lei
 us say great river and look above where
 we find it sweeping around the earth iu | a channel two thousand miles wide and
 how deep DO man knows. The eastward flowing river carries storm centers and cloud formations. causing them to go around the earth in an easterly direction.
 The channel of this aerial river does not lie exactly east 6nd west but varies well to the south above the Gulf of Mex ico and above China and we'll to the north about the Bhering sea and Ice land so that it's southern boundary line will average near g and it's northern about 60 degrees of north latitude.
 Nlne-tenths of the human race live within these boundaries and this vast eastward flow is the immediate cause of all our weather departures. Cold win ters, warm winters, and all weather ex- tremes may be traced to this great river
 But this river is acted upon by the magnetic influences of sun, moon and planets so that it's channel varies. Gaw- thorp, in the American Meteorological Journal, says: "This great unnamed river of the atmosphere, so near to US and yet so far, has now in it's bed. as it has had through ages, the ceuters of civilization and IS destined to appeal to the imagination of men and to dare them, in it's exploration, to extreme ef- fort. This great liver changes it's course southing at one time and northing at an- other because of influences it meets in passing CT the earth's surface"
 If We can know when to expect the soutbing of thIs river, that is when it's channel will Oscillate or change to the south on thIs continent, We may know when to expect cold winters for they will surely follow and warm winters will fol- low its northern oscillations.
 It must rot be supposed that all the upper atmosphere is moving eastward. Probably the channel of the great aerial river Is tunnel reaching not to exceed ten miles high. There are very fOrcible reasons for believing that the atmos- phere above this channel moves north ward, after rising along the equator, and IS poured down again through the vertex of the magnetic north pole from whence come the cold and the cold waves.
 The immediate cause of these atmos- pheric movements is the suns magnetic effects, including the heating of the equator. The earth revolving eastward causes 8 relative movement of the sun westward and as the atmosphere rises along the earth's equator in response to the suns forces dOwnpou1s at the poles are natural results.
 This movement of the atmosphere takes the form of spiral, and with left handed corkscrew motion is drawn around the channel of the great east ward flowing aerial river.
 The westward progress of the sun must necessarily pull vast portions of the atmosphere toward the west and to replace it an eastward flow is caused and hence the great river.
 The principal areas of evaporation lie south of this great channel in the Allan tIc and Pacific oceans where the mOis- ture is lifted and carried into the great river where 1t flows eastward till a com bination of transient highs and lows cause it to be precipitated, giving us rain or snow.
 Now as to the great deep. The writer believes that the causes of evaporation were vastly increased to such an enor- nous extent that nearly all the waters of the oceans were evaporated and drawn into ths great deep-thet is the great aerial river under discussion causing cloud formations thousands of times more extensive than now, shutting out the light of the sun till only dim twilight remained. This condition re- maiDed for vast ages during which the earth WAS developed in great deep belts of cloud as now are all the planets eX- cept the earth and Mars.
 When the cause of this great evapOra- ton gradually withdrew, from natural results, the fountains of the great deep were broken up, the moisture precipi- tated and what is termed Noah's flood resulted.
 Every geologist will admit that evil dence now found in the crust of the earth harmonizing with the above hy- pothesis are overwhelming. The legends and traditions of every tribe and race of man remarkably coincide with these ideas.
 Tho wrrtar 5oas not besitafa tO de- great weather event was the coming to our earth of the greatest comet ever known to the solar system and that our moon, robbed by the earth of its water and atmosphere, IS the remnant of that comet.