The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1902-07-30
MORE RAIN.
The Clouds WEARY Not in Well Do
ing" and Continue to Pour out
Their Blessings.

uAio ehah5 hSNP1 NPi w go ohi
have to move to East Texas or
some other country where it
doesn't rain so awful much.
Last Sunday morning about IL
o'clock another fine rain began
falling in San Angelo and sur
rounding country, continuing
for an hour or longer, steadily
and in good volume. The water
was still standing in the low
places Monday morning, indicat-
ing that the earth is becoming
thoroughly saturated and its thirst
getting the best quenching 1t has
had for some time.
The rain covered quite q scope
of territory. Telephone reports
being to that effect from Sterling
City, Sherwood. Knickerbocker,
Christoval, Ozona and other
points on the San Angelo Tele-
phone Company's system.
Actual Amount of Rainfall in Angelo.
That appearances are decep-
tive" applies to nothing as it does
to the quantity of rainfall, for in
nothing are people, as a rule,
more greatly mistaken as they
are in their estimates of the
amount of rain, in inches, which
falls at or during given period of
time. Ask a number of persons
about any rain as to their opinion
in regard to its quantity and you
will see that their ideas widely
differ-in fact their ESTIMATES
may differ several inches, some
times, when in fact, less than one
inch has fallen. 1t is fortunate
for us all here, that there is
one person who takes sufficient
interest in this very important
matter, to make and keep accur-
ate measurement and records, and
that gentleman is DR.. S. L. S,
Smith, who, by the way, as is
we'll known to many who have
known HIM a long time, does an
enormous amount of ''pro-bono-
publico- free --for--nothing "
work, anyhow. The popular doc
tor kindly furnished The Press
for the following record of recent
rains, for which it is "his most
obedient. "
Date Quantity, Inches
July 81, 1901. ......... ........l
July %, 1902. ,...........1t
July 27, 1902. ..................i
Total, three dates..........34
The Bismarck Hereford farm o.
Payne & Jones and surrounding
country got tip top soaker Sun
day.
Jess Lewis, who is now on the
Mcintyre ranch, Sterling county
was in the city Monday and re-
ported all kinds of rain in hi
part of the country.
Gus Muecke was in from Crows
Nest Monday and reported "th'
finest rain in the world over thu
whole country. The ground was
so we'll soaked and SOFT" he added
chat fellows horse would ge
begged up to the knees on tn,
open prairie.
Joe Funk said Monday, thai
it had been rainy out his way TO
a week, Sunday included, anc
that the last rain extended all thu
way. to San Angelo. He added
that his potatoes were getting
ripe and that this was strictly {
granger country.
The last rain, Sunday, was, il
many respects, the most genera
and best that has fallen in Yves
Texas during this season. 1t ha'
been enough, in many neighbor
hoods, to insure good and suffici
ent winter range already. AS ia
as signs go-and they go lonl
way when the conditions ar
right, which they now are-th
prospects are good for still NOR
rain, and to the range will be ad
ded an enormous tonnage of fee,
crops.
A. R. Nesbit, the Ben Ficklil
farmer, was in the city Monda
and reported Sundays rain tn
best that had fallen there thi
season.
E. L. Cheek, who has returne
from a visit to Runnels county
} reports rain all the way, in som
places apparently about thre
times as much as here.
Dock Moss arrived from Robel
Lee Monday on the mail hac
and reported the biggest rain h
ever saw in his life there las
Tuesday and another good on
Sunday. The river had been with
in two feet of the highest eve
known, and the bridge was
danger of being swept away
Cotton, Dock added, was simpl
fine, and it looked as if the
would have more than they coul
harvest or take care of.