Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1899-01-19
SNOW IN ITS PROPER PLACE.
The Rare Climatic Advantage of =
Newly Acquired City of the
United States.

shoe store. The clerk looked panied
al the misprorunciation, but rose SUI
perior TO his feelings and FASTENED to
make sale. While he was fitting the
arctics he made Il little conversational
venture, suggestion that the album
dant snowfall had made it so cold that
heavy foot covering was necessary.
1T amt til" cold and the amount of
snow that bothers me-" said the Gus
toner, "but it's the coming SO almighty
quick when you're rot looking for it;
that's what gets me. amt used to it :"
mo snow where you come from ?"
asked the clerk as he finished buck.ing
the left arctic.
"Plenty of snow. Snow all the year
around. Winter and summer just the
'ame. Get uSeG TO the snow; but not to
the way it has here"
That must hc worse than the Klon-
dixie. They tell nc that the snow does
melt thcT" along about no"quito time.
hut your place Wl;ic you have SHOW All
She year lonG--wel. ali can say is that
IN glad there amt any such sort Of
climate in the United States"
'That's where you're away off. MY
town is decidedly IL The United States
and we've got a climate that sou clr't
beat anywhere in the weld. There
'"ut its match even in California end
there's Il pretty. good climate out OH tho
cast. Year in and year out there.
Just the same amount of SHOW and We
Inow what to depend on, for it never
varies"
Must be good place to sell arctics
@ and rubber boots" the clerk suggested.
Never was as much as Il single pair
'."Rn in town." replied the co.,!-!coliins
:"an, land rs good part O f the pupula-
ION 20 barefoot there isn't much
chance that such novelty in footwear
would attract custom. Snow like this
can't stand; II comes on you all of a
sudden and you get n cold in your head;
and you can't make yourself feel warm
no matter how many Of them you
AXE
Amt the SNOW cold out your way ?"
asked the bcwildered clerk.
"Co!d? Well, GUESS it's just about
nS cold as snow can manage to come.
FOR it never melts. "But we don't feel
Il the same way. When get up in the
morning at my place I slip linen
!uster ever my pajamas and go down to
the river for my swim, and on my way
! stop and pick n banana or maybe a
pineapple and look up and see it's been
showing again on the hills. Now, 10
my way of thinking, that's the kind of
snow to have. 1t looks right pretty and
It doesn't make you uncomfortable.
It's Christmas card climate"
BY this time the clerks head was
swimming. 1t may have been because
he was bending over to fix the right
arctic or it may have been because Of
the difficulty of believing this tale Of
climate. Even at the risk of spoi;ing
The sale he was trying to make, his
sense Of meteorological accuracy got
The better of him. and he said:
1--WE listened to Californians talking
rbout their climate, and must say tina,
even in their toughest stories they've
always made it seem consistent. Los
angeles and San Diego people can get
Off some pretty stiff stories about
oranges. but not even they pretend to
grow bnnanas and pineapplcs and the
really tropical fruits, and thcy'G never
'cnture to talk about putting OH q linen
buster for a trip to an iceberg CT a
glacier. Amt this cold snap enough
FOR us TO have to suffer without rub
bling it in? AT any rate, there ought to
I've limit on stories about climate; they
ought at least to seem reasonable.
Where in the world is this place OF
Yours with the chrome climate, pine
apples and snow blockadcs all mixed up
together? There isn't anything like
that in the United States"
That's where you're wrong" re-
torted the owner OF the climate where
'rctics are not needed. We're as thriv-
ing seaport rs you can find in this
country. We grow thc best oranges in
The world, the bananas and tho pine
md the mango are ripcnirg all the year
round and nobody ever wears anything
heavier than linen clothing. J'ut the
everlasting snow is always in our sight.
IL banks on the Size ard top Of the
mountain just behind the town, and