Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-03-17
CLIMATIC EXTRAES.
PARTS OF THE COUNTRY WI ONE
REGULARITY OR ANoTR.

Otul III lIO lttoo Nv y No@h
made memory notes of suchlimatic
peculiarities as have come undmy OBJ
servation.
The place having the widesa ange of
temperature of any with viii I am
familiar is Fort Keogh, in thgellow-
stone valley. Not infrequentl III the
winter the mercury tumbles don to so
degrees below zero, and it s been
known in summer to climb to 120
degrees above. Here is an extree range
Of ITO degrees, and yet peoplenanage
to live very comfortably there ,e year
round. In the early summer 3 grass
on the plains and hills turns bwn and
yellow, and all green vanishes orr the
wide landscape except where fringe
of cottonwood trees skirts wateourse.
1t is popularity. of the extrae high |
temperature in the arid regionsaat you
do not perspire at all-that isgou do
.ot sensibly perspirc. The msture is
al evaporated from your skin fast as
it is formed by the extreme dness OF
the air. The heat is not near SO op-
pressive, however, as it is at .mpera-
ture of so or so degrees alongthe At
lantic seaboard. If you are ihoors or
under the shade Of tree, you &c quite
comfortable.
Anything that will break te. fierce
rays of the sun is sufficient relieve
you from all oppression from he high
temperature. Travelling some ears ago
across the hot, billowy plain of he great
basin of the Columbia with amping
party looking up route for abroad,
we came to huge columnarrock of
black basalt. The day was inteBely hot
We stopped the teams, and, hrowing
ourselves down cn the shady sde of the
rock, we recalled the phrase imhe Bible
about "the shadow of a greatrock in q
weary land" and realized Tint little
shade meant as much to the people of
arid Palestine as TO as tired tnvelers ii
arid America.
The hottest place in the Uni5d States
is unques,iorab!y Death Wiley, i'll
southern California 1t is Ghoui 200 feet
below the sea level and is rim.ned
around with black, bare nifuntaius.
Birds flying access this valley i'll the
heated season often drop dead. Borax
is found here, hu: the mining processes
cease in tie heat Of latdsumGe:. l read
somewhere G; patty Of li,oa who en-
tered the valley i'll July, knowing Meth
ing of the deadly heat, and WHO pre-
served their lives by lying all Jay IL the
water CT little slreariihat came oct CT
the mountains 2ud was sGon dried up IL
the fierce rays OF tie sun. They were
glad to escai:a rrGcr tie cooling shaae:
of night.
The rainiest place in the United State:
is Neah bay, Oh the strait OF f'uea, IL
the stare CT Washington. 1t actually
rains every day III the year, and til
total annual pi2ci ii; ;t;ttiou is nearly lO'
inches. There !i I'll 1nuian rcscryatioi
on the lay. Tic natives have vcr,
pretty krach cf making orl,amenta
basins and carving wooden bowls, whicl
they decorate with high colcrs.
The most remarkable CLIMATIC barrie
in the United States is that of the Cas-
cade mountains, i'll Washington In win
ter time the railway train tolls up tn
eastern slope Of these mountains betwee
walle of e,,n--. l:--hlar .lss-f ''Srszlc, Q
= nau1ua 81 qou on the Gres..t North
ern, you Suddenly leave winter behin
you, and, whirling down the western
slope of the mountains, in less lthan al
hour you meet the full spring. 9he gras
is green, waterfowl swim Oh the river
and bays, the crows are holding thei,
annual conventions in the tree tops will
much oratorical clalnor, and when yor
arrive at Tacoma you find thetflowers
blooming il the dccryards. Thelchange
seems magical and is as great as If you
should start from Chicago in January
and travel 10 the gulf of Mexico, yet the
whole distance you have traversed to
bring about this wonderful transforma-
ton is less than 100 miles.
The most peculiar climatic region
with which I am familiar is the Puget
sound basin, in the state of Washington.
It is separated from the ocean On the
west by the rugged snow clad range Of
the Olympic mountains, and its e;stern
boundary is the still loftier range Of the
Cascades. The sound is connected with
the Pacific by the broad strait Of Juan
de Fuca, and up this strait pours agreat
volume of moist air, brought b. the
Japan current from far out to sea- The
mountains of Vancouver island q one
side and the Olympics on the other rmake
Of the strait an enormous funnel and
the moisture laden winds are condnsed
against the cold, snowy ranges on kther
hand and are precipitated in freuent
showers upon the shores of the srnd.
1t rarely SHOWS there, but it rainst lit
tie almost every day from Octof to
June. The result is to produce ense
vegetable growth in the forest consf ling
of immense trees-firs, hemlocks, spices
and cedars-and CT undergrowt 90
dense that it is almost impossibl to
force your way through it without ard
work with an AK. A ST. Paul ma OF
my acquaintance went out to that re &on
to see what he called his farm. He Sua
a tract of land five or six miles pm
Olympia, the capital of the state.nd
had often boasted about that farm tain
acquaintance He set out from oly4ia
on horseback to view the land, but 3a
three hours hard struggle in the fe,A
he turned back without even gehH
sight of his possessions, and waa folly.
ed as far as the clearing by q eout.
which hastened his progress 10y itsE.
NAL and menacing hpwls. s.--tkit0
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