San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-08-24
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Fall.

Fall.
To the Daily LIGHT:
In the LIGHT of the 18th you say
in the contributed scraps, "crime
to entice men to come here to en-
gage In farming, without fully ex-
planning to them in advance that
the rainfall, year in and year Quits
insufficient to assure a fair crop.
The drift of all the arguments
throughout the column is for re-
lief by irrigation.
/ Mr.. Editor, are you aware any
air in the morning is on an aver
age 50 per cent charged with
moisture?
Are you aware the dew point dur
ing our drouth does not average
more than fifteen hundred feet
high?
Are you aware that invented
machine to throw this heavily
charged air to the dew point which
would certainly condense a portion
Of the vapor and precipitate 1t as
rain. :
Do you not know that / during
this present drouth, offered to fur.
nish all the rain you want, II
some one would furnish me the use
Of an SO-horse power engine, 1 to
defray all expenses OF running it?
Are you aware that Prof. w. T.
Foster says sit is worth testing"
also that Prof. ]. P. Espy says "any
thing to cause an up-moving
column of air will cause rain, when
the dew point is low and the air
calm"
An irrigation plant will cost thou.
sands Of dollars and will benefit
only those whose land lays favor
able and who have the money to
pay.
would not say one word to dis.
courage or deter irrigation, but
when a community with dozen |
engines OF the required capacity
rejects such an offer to produce
rain, / think they would also reject |
an offer OF irrigation.
The rainolette Is home enter
prise, home intellect has invented
it, home money has built it, and
all 1t requires to make it success
is an engine Of sufficient power to
work it.
You will say we do not believe
in it!
l will grant the people do not |
believe in it, but does that change
the principles that govern it?
i will convince any unpre-
JUDGED person, in a half hour that
our chances are good to produce
rain every week in San Antonio
IL We will work the rainolette with
judgment.
The expense of testing it would |
be small but without power we |
can do nothing.
Ii it is a success ii will not cost |
as much to keep a section of coun-
try wet, as it would to pay ditch |
superintendent.
1t would rain alike on the rich |
and poor, the just and unjust, the |
and valley.
The same principle and the same |
that produces rain will
overcast the heavens with clouds |
when conditions are favorable for
frost, thereby making all early and
late crops more certain.
Fruit would never be a failure
and two crops year would be the |
rule in Texas.
1t will take two years at leass to
build dams, dig bitches, drill
wells, etc., preparatory to irrigate
the few favorably located farms,
where the owners have money to
foot the bills.
1t will take two weeks to move
the rainolette, make connection to
the engine (when found), and rain
on those same irrigable farms, al
so on your lawns, your gardens
and streets, purify the air and re-
fresh all nature.
While there Is q remedy so easily
attainable, one with which all
laws of nature are in harmony, one
against which no argum emit can be
brought, why should there exist
such apathy?
Is it not worth investigating,
and IL 1t is as good in practice as in
theory, then let the sufferings Of
the country be allieviated.,
j. NJ. MATTHEWS.
1877 North Flores street