Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-06-08
Missouri Slope Blessed with a Soaking
Rain, that Does Untold Good
to Crops.
Storm is General Over the Slope
But Does Not Extend to
Jamestown.
Comparison Of Rainfall During this,
and Previous Spring Seasons
Crop Information.
(Fro,n Thursdays Daily.)

TS ASSS
been answered in the way of a rain
that is general over the Missouri slope,
one of those rains that falls steadily
from a heavy and leaden sky and
soaks the parched earth with grateful
moisture. 1t is a genuine rain, none
of the passing showers that emits a
few drops of water and passes on. It
is a soaking rain, and a wet rain-the
rain that patters gently on the roof
and rustles through the leaves of the
trees; that the thirsty grass drinks in
greedily and that gladdens the grain
and the flowers. 1t is one of the rains
that Nature bestows to prove she is
still a kind and thoughtful mother,
who has the welfare of her children
at heart, and has only scorched them
a little to cause them the more to ap-
preciate her bounties. Ut was still
raining as this p%eroration was rounded
out.)
1t is a generous rain, that brings a
smile to the beaten face of the honest
farmer. 1t is a rain that makes the
blades of grass laugh and the flowers
lift up their Threats to drink in the
drops that fall gently, steadily, COM
fortingly. It is a rain Inat makes the
leaves of the trees hang heavily, laden
with drops of crystal water, and that
makes the water spout flow a p%lenteous
stream, into the barrel where the
housewife sees soft water accumulate
for the next weeks wash. 1t is a
rain that makes the cattle hump I'm
under the trees and the cat crawl UNI
der the house, while the man without
an umbrella skins along the street be-
tween the drops. It is the kind of
rain that happens when you have left
your umbrella and macintosh at the
other end of the line. 1t is a rain
that is worth millions of dollars to the
state of North Dakota. 1t is a certi-
fcate of deposit on the banks of Ma
ture for countless thousands of dollars.
GAS we went out to cash our certif-
Gates it was still raining.)
1t is a beautiful rain. 1t is more
beautiful than beautiful snow" It is
a rain that trickles down through the
parched soil, down to the roots of the
wheat and the oats and the early rose
potatoes and bids them get a hump on
themselves. Such an easy rain, too,
as though it could rain the same way
every day if it only wanted to. So
wet it is. as it ripples down over the
brim of the straw hat that is caught
away from home and makes tumors on
its top. How the water streams off the
edge of the umbrella down the neck of
the comrade you have taken in out of
the wet and shared your umbrella
with. How the little rills run off on
his shoulder and down inside of his
white collar and make him think what
good fellow you are, and so generous!
LAS we reached this point, it stopped
raining.)
WEATHER NOTES.
General Williams, who returned
Tuesday from a trip to Williston. saws
that prairie fires were raging between
Williston and Minot and the prairies
IN that section were as brown as in
autumn.
Mclean county and the region north
n east Of that section did not get
any OF the rain that fell last week.
In some parts of Mclean county not a
drop of rain has fallen since the crop
was put in yet a poor piece of grain is
the exception. The only damage
promises to be the rel of the
grain. Some late pieces have not
even sprouted. Today's rain is prob
ably general all over that section.
Reports from Walsh county are to
the effect that the rains of the fore
part OF this week did not reach that
section.
There were good rains this week all
through Minnesota.
AS usual the region in the northern
part OF Burleigh in the vicinity of Will
ton has had several good showers. That
section is a charmed region and no
mistake.
The st. Paul weather bureau reports
that the present month has been the
most arid May that the weather bur-
a has recorded since it's establish
ment in the Twin cities, twenty-nine
years ago. So far, the rain fall has
amounted to only .43 of an inch, and
as there are but two days left in the
month, the prospects are that the rec
ord will be broken. The nearest ap-
proach to the record of this month at
st. Paul was in May, 1886, when .S2
OF an inch was the precipitation. The
average rainfall in the past twenty
nine years for the month of May is SO
inches, and the wettest May in 1870,
when 7.1S inches fell.
FIGURES OF RAINFALL.