Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-06-13
COLD SUMMER Wealth Err

II Is not uncommon thtot ''''
hear the remark made that this Is 'He
coolest June most people can remelu'
bcr II seems as II summer weather
bad been indefinitely postponed, No one
need 10 fear. however that the present
North Pole blasts signify that we are
gradually approaching another glaclal
period. The waves Of heat and cola
seem 10 follow one another IN success
sion IN rhytamic movements. the
cycles " time have their seasons, APP
parcntly. as the years have theirs
The beginning Of the last century
was marked by some very cold sum
mers an exchange has gathered some
data regarding lha temperature Of the
summer Of 1916. Horace Greeley who
was then five years old and lived with
ne family in New Hampshire says IN
his "Recorections."
OF wen remember the cold summer
ASA when we rose on the Slh OF June
10 mad the earth covered with go)d
nch OF newly fallen snoW-When mere
was frost every month, and corn 40
NOT 20, TN October Plans grew very
slowly that season, while burrowing IN
sects ted and fattened on them NY
"a K fer u time as g precede my Ia'h-
or as he hoed IFS corn, dig open the
hille. an. KIN the wireWorms and gruDs
that were anticipating our dubious mar
vest
BUT New Hampshire was not the only
state suffering from the severity Of the
weather A contributor to the Phila-
dclphla Bulletin says
1T seems that snow fell in the mid
die Of the month - the depth OF three
inches I'm the interior Of New York
state. seven inches In Maine and ten
inches in Vermont On the morning Of
the day of the great snowstorm In YER
mont. farmer who had sent llock
of sheep 10 pasture on the day before
found the thermometer as low as 81 de-
grees. and told his family that he was
going TO look Up his flock and send
thcin home. As he was about 10 leave
his house. ne said jocularly 20 his Wife,
Better start the nelghbors soon II is
the middle Of June and ! may get lost
In the snow. But not long after ne
left mis- house fierce and binding
sncwstorm suddenly spread over the
whole valley; at night the farmer had
not been heard from; q searching par
~ was organized 10 discover his where
abouts. and II was not until the third
DAY that they found him lying on a
hillside covered with snow and almost
frozen 10 DEATH"
The exchange from which the above
Is clipped goes on to say that In the
ronth Of July that year there was In
some parts Of Pennsylvania ice as
thick as window glass, on Independence
day. Farmers wore their overc0ats,
The month Of August was a repetition
OF July The Indian corn In many
places froze 50 hard that Il rotte1 on
the stalk. The farmers moved II down
and dried II for fodder In 1917 corn
which had been raised In 1915 was sold
In Pennsylvania for seed at 81 per
bushcl Wheat commanded 80 per
bushel in Philadelphia, and -four Sli
The only month after April In which
D ere was anything like a normal tenn
perature was September in which two
weeks were the mildest and pleasant.
,st Of the year
History has on record other periods Of
'oll summer months, as well as unusu-
ally severe winters but there Is no
proof that the climate Of the world has
any material change since
the dawn Of history.