Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-04-14
AMONG THE WEATHER-WISE
a Visitor Calls Down the "Oid TIM
ersf Facts, However, Amply
Sustain Them.

To the Editor of the New Mexican.
Santa Fe, April 1S.--in your issue OF
April 10, | found the following item
"The wind blew gale in Santa Fe yes
terday. DR.. Andrews and other old
timers say nothing like it has occurred
here in ten years"
Being a stranger to your climate. |
might easily have been misled into be-
lieving that the said gale was phe-
nomenon hereabouts, but for the fact
that long since learned to doubt the re-
liability of the "Old Timers" memory. l
therefore called upon your gentlemanly
and obliglng whether director, Mr.. Her.
sey. for an accurate aiswer to the ques-
tion as to weather, in ten years, anything
like the wind Of last Thursday had been
observed here.
Here is the result:
March 2S, 1892 Il otal miles of wind
62G.
April 9, 1896-Total miles of wind 4Sh.
Why not use the weather bureau for
weather data, leaving the sold Timers"
to furnish bear stories or Indian talesf
Very Truly, GKo. W. CHAMBERS.
LOOKING TO THE RECORD.
The Nkw MEXICAN is pleased to print
the above, for it affords opportunity to
present some facts on subject that has
been much discussed of late.
In considering the weather, like a great
many other things, 1t must not be over
looked that circumstances alter cases.
The official records show that a very
different state of things existed in March
1882 as compared with March 1896. For
March 80 here ls the record:
"Severe wind storms prevailed on the
2S and 3lst; the highest velocities report
ed from stations having thermometers for
measuring the velocity of wind were sixty
miles per hour from the west at Las Cru
ces and Ft. Stanton; from the southwest
at Santa Fe forty eight miles an honr on
the 2Sth. This was with one exception
the highest wind recorded in the Santa Fe
Office which was established in 1871. At
Ell Paso the wind reached velocity of
eighty-six miles per hour"
The record as to prec pitation shows
that snow or rain fell on ten days in March
1892. The total rain fall was Isl inches,
-"the precipitation for the month was
above the normal"
Compared with this we find the record
as to precipitation for March, 1896, show
ing but fivo days on which there was any
moisture and the total precipitation for the
month was fifty-three hundredths OF an
inch, far below the normal, and it was the
dryest March in period OF twelve years.
Naturally, then, there was much more dust
to be lifted by the wind on April 8, 1896,
no precipitation having come between
the last of March and that date--than on
March IS, 1892, prior to which time there
had been double the am Mount OF the nor
NAL preci pitation.
These changed conditions readily ac-
count for the correctness Of the "Old
Timers" views. Taking dust and wind
into consideration, the New MEXICAN be-
lieves the "Old Timers'' to be right.
:srant County Dots.
Correspondence New Mexican.
Silver City, April 13.-The Republicans
who combined to defeat the Laird ticket
IN ble lHHG CVuEtHtlOu HhSC pldStlOhiiJ
agreed on the following ticket for the fall
campaign:
W. h. Jack, council; r. H. Thielman
lower house; Richard Hudson, collector;
Geo. O. Perault, sheriff; Ed. Moulton,
assessor; B. Y. McKeyes, clerk; Homer
Tarbill, 10 Il. Sheridan, O. R. Smyth,
county commissioners.
In all probability the following uamed
gentlemen will come before the same con-
vention and ask for the nomination for
what they aspire to:
D. p. Carr, lower house; I. N. Chiders,
assessors Thos. Foster, county commits
sioner; Arthur Goodell, sheriff.
1t is said that Windy Williams, of So
zorro, is hoping and praying that Catron
will be reelected and that the Repub-
licans will carry the country this fall so
he can be appointed judge of the 5th dis
trict.
The popular editor OF the Eagle, Hon.
A. j. Loomis, spent few days with his
family this week, returning to Santa Fe
on Thursday.
Cold, snow squalls and high winds seem
TO be, the order of the day. Has gentle
spring become side-tracked!
r. U. o. N.