Arizona republican., 1901-01-26
LIBERAL FALL OF RAIN
Spreading All Over Arizona, the
 Clouds Rel ease Their Wealth.

Raln In Phoenix which began falling on Thursday morning and barely sufii- cient to settle the dust during the day took fresh start on Thursday night. and fell with renewed and increased vigor. The total fall amounted to about half an inch before the clouds cleared at sundown yesterday. On account of peculiar atmospheric conditions 1t was impossible to forecast the precipitation and it was equally as impossible last night, when the rain ceased, to prog. nosticate the conditions which will ex- list today, although according to gem eral appearances the temperature will be lower and precipitation will be sus- pended for a short period at least
 Special advlces and reports re- ceived by The Republican yesterday show that the rain has been quite gen. eral all over the territory, the amount of precipitation being about the same in all parts of Arizona. In Jerome there was snow and quite likely snow fell in the San Francisco mountains farther north. Reports from the west as far as Cotton. Cal. are of rain, and the only points from which only mea- ger reports have been received are in the extreme eastern parts of this ter ritory. There was no fall at Los An gees or San Francisco.
 On account of unusual atmospheric disturbances yesterday Wm. q. Burns, director of the weather bureau, received instructions from San Francisco to make q special observation. Weather observers all over the Pacific coast country were puzzled at first by signs of moisture. The rain clouds came froT, the south and the rain was not a local precipitation. presenting a rare condition of the weather. and prompt ing the belief that as occurs infre- quently, the storm had It's origin in the Gu. of California. called the Middle Pat .fc by weather observers, and wil likely sweep across tn entire country i finding its way through the Great Lakes with an outlet at the St. Law , renee valley.
 | Mir. Burns states that the rain was one of the most propitious falls that I has occurred in the territory for slV' eral years. It has not, of course, beer | the heaviest, but it came at a time ant | in a manner to aid planters. Man. ! farmers in Arizona have not yet beer able to put in seed. but the last rail which fell slowly, preventing run-on puts the ground In excellent condition i for receiving seeds. There will be al important but not spasmodic, increas' | in the rivers, causing a more pro | tracted benefit to farming Minnl will be stimulated, and grazing all ove Arizona will be much benefited. eVei though the rain has not been sufhclen
 in places to cause new growths
 range grasses. All rains in the pas year have marked more benefit for tn
 people of the whole territory than or
 dinary rains in preceding years nav caused, for the reason that precipita tion generally has been far below nor
 mai. At only one point, Ft. Huachuca in Cochisc county, has the rainfall To
 the year been slightly more than th
 average. At Ft. Apache, in Naval
 county, where the heaviest rainfall
 Arizona is recorded from year to veal the normal fall 1t 2i inches the pre-
 cipitation this year has been but l
 inches approximately, and at practl
 cally all other points of the territory
 the falling off has been proportionat'
 Ii is a matter of regret that the fa
 cilities of the local observatory 10
 forecasting weather conditions ar
 incomplete, but the government is ca
 culating to furnish the bureau with re { ports from much greater number C
 stations and peraaps arrange TOT LII making of local forecasts.