The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-05-24
COMING ECLIPSE or THE sun.


On the morning OF Monday next,
May 2sth, the moon will pass between
the sun and the earth, causing an eclipse
of the sun, visible in all parts of the
United States 1t will be a total eclipse
for d district about 10 miles wide OK
tending from New Orleans to Norfolk,
Virginia but for all points north Of
that district the eclipse viii be only
partial.
A correspondent of the Elko Free
Press gives the following interesting
facts concerning this wonderful phe-
nomenon, including the time when it
may be seen is this locality:
The moon at the time of the eclipse
will be near enough to the earth that
its shadow will touch the earth's sur
face so as to throw a black shade some
what oval in shape about fifty miles IN
diameter upon it, and all observers who
are situated within this oval black space
on the earth ; surface. will see the sun
totally eclipsed.
This black shadow Of the moon will
ufsl DS Sttll db sAtlAl1t biA hnt 4 FAtAAaA
ocean in Longitude ll6 deg, IS min,
w, from Greenwich and in Latitude Il
deg, 80 min, N about 100 miles south
westerly from Cape St Lucas, thence 1t
will rapidly pass northwesterly across
the central portions of Mexico and cross
tho northern part of the Gulf of Mex
leo to the city of New Orleans, taking
in, as it passes on, the towns of Mobile
til nj NA,.f,lls tbs 1affag
place it passes into the Atlantic ocean
and crossing it, enters Europe at the
town of Coimbra in Portugal thence
it crosses Portugal and Spain and en-
tiers Africa near Aleiers, and thence
skirting the south shore of the Medt-
terranean Sea it leaves the earth ut
sunset at point about 400 miles south
of tho Isthmus of Suez.
The speed of the shadow can be i'm
aeined when it is know that Il traverses
a space of l45 degrees or about 10, 100
miles, on the earth's surface eastward
from the point of its beginning to its
end in three hours and 10 minutes, or
at the average rate OF 304a miles per
hour
Fer eastern Nevada the eclipse viii
be partial, only the southern portion OF
The sun VIII De nleutH DN the iubpu
disk. The eclipse will begin at / o'clock
and 81 minutes in the morning. Sunrise
takes place at about / O'Clock aud %
minutes A. M, thus if [ am correct in
my calculations, the sun will rise on the
morning of the 2Sth with the eclipse al
ready begun, which will be noticeable as
fiat and rounded notch in its southern
edge.
This notch will increase in size until
the time of the middle OF the eclipse
and then it win diminish.
The middle of the eclipse will be at
about o'clock and - minutes A. NJ,
and tho end at about 8 O'Clock and 81
minutes A. M. OF the 2Sth
In looking at the eclipse do not by
any means try to do so with unprotect- |
ed eyes, for it is very dangerous to do
So Smoke a piece Of clean even glass
over lamp or candle, getting as even /
a shade upon it as you can. Try it upon |
the sun day Or two before the eclipse |.
and when you can sec the sun through /
it without dazzling your eyes it will do. /
Handle it carefully, for the least touch |
upon the backing from the SCOT will |
spoil it for the purpose. Such a glass |
should be as wide as ones hand TO be
useful.