The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-17
SUMMER HAS ARRIVED.
First Warm Day-Old Timers Tell OF
Previous Springs.

First Warm Day-Old Timers Tell of
Previous Springs.
There are those who have predicted that
summer proposed to pass Anaconda by
on the other side this year. Yesterday
proved their folly and vindicated sum
mer
There have been one or two sunny DAVIS
this year, scattered at intervals along
the dreary way of cloudiness, but none
so clear and bright and delightful as
yesterday. At noon the temperature
stood at IS in the shade, during the mid
die of the afternoon it went up to 81
and at o'clock was down to -. OF
course, this is not the summer that has
fallen upon the East and Is inf1cting IL
SELF upon the foolish mortals who yearned
some weeks ago for heat and objected
vocferously to the prolongation of win
ter, but it is summer enough for most
people and was particularly grateful here
All day long the sky was cloudless, put
ting in bold relief the surrounding green
hills with their Gaping OF snow. 1t was
a glorious day for driving as the large
business done by the local livery stables
testifies.
There has been more or less discussion
| as to whether or not this years weather
has been phenomenal. Most of the old
| timers agree that it has been unprece-
dented, while a few believe the spring of
1887 was nearly as backward
Il do not remember that 1887 was IN
usual" said Chairman Walker of the
board of county commissioners yester-
day, but | do know that never in my ex-
perience has there been season as back
ward as this Mr.. Walker has resided
in this section the greater portion of the
time since 1863 and so speaks authori-
tatively.
I'VE have had colder winters said he,
continuing. "but none so prolonged as the
one just closed has been This last WIN
ter started in early and lasted later than
| ever knew it previously. / am at loss
to account for the peculiar conditions.
81 take no stock in the prediction that
we will have no summer I believe that
summer is at hand and that we will have
quite a period of warm weather.
l.. A. King, who has lived here Il years,
concurs in the opinion that Anaconda
never saw in her previous history such a
late season as this has been.
"Those who say the spring of 1887 was
| nearly as late as this mistaken" said
he yesterday. ut is true there have been
late springs or springs wherein the rains
| continued until late. but never such a sea-
| son as this where it has been steadily
| and persistently cool Previous late rainy
| spells have been punctuated frequently
| by periods of warm weather. This year is
| an exception to all rules previously laid
| down for the weather.
| II see that some Eastern weather sharp
has predicted there is to be no summer
| this year, but that for the succeeding 10
years we will have perpetual summer.
That would be too much of a good thing
l fear.
"A lady who has been visiting in the
| state of Washington tells me much the
| same conditions prevail there. and that
| the Indians in that state predict there
will be little summer They and the old
| settlers say the weather this year is ex-
actly like that of 1852 when there were
| only two weeks of summer. Since 1852
| there has been nothing like it,"