Arizona republican., 1903-02-13

tured an intimati0n that through the demands Of Irrigation in this region and the curiosity of the many health seekers. each one of whom is q. weathe: sharp, the Phoenix station was prob ably more popular than most stations furnishing information to like number Of population. Mir. Conger proceeded at once to demonstrate that that view is entirely wrong. He paid high tribute to the local office and to the people who are beginning 10 appreciate it's value
 to the people of Arizona. but he said there was no cCnp2l isOn with the older sections where the service was more complete inc business interests vastly more VoluminouS and the people better educated to the advantages to be Sc cured through the information dissen- mated by the bureau. Tn illustra ton he spoke in some detail of the work of the Detroit station.
 That section of the country is given to very changeable weather, and on the weather depends. in these days. the policy to be followed by almost every enc from the social circle down tc the humDleSi line of business Frequent re ports are received there from the sur rounding country as to weather con ditiCns. and very accurate foracas : can be made. When there is any doubt il is tho intention of the service to err on tho right side. If there is an indi- caticn Of a storm 1t is announced ani if the storm fails to materialize no special harm has been done On the other hand if fair weather were pre- dicte1 and business shaped accordingly. i the crrival of 2 storm might cause a l lose Of thousands Of dollars. There is i hardly business man that has goods
 to ship these days but who first in ciuires the state of the weather. This 1 is apparent to all in respect ul perishahie goods. fruits and garden truck. but it has been discovered that l nearly everybody who will may profit
 by the information. The coal dealer al
 ways watches the weather proba bilities i ahead. Even the natural ice dealer 1 plans q cay or two ahead on the weatn- i CT forecasts in arranging for putting
 up his goods. # the temperature is
 nigh and 1t is time to cut ice he gets posted SO as to have his men and his | train on the ground when the freeze l comes. There are 120 large farms iu 1 the vicinity of Detroit who are in daily
 communication with the weather office by telephone relative to the marketing ] of their produce. Even the manufac- turers Of iron safes who desire to ship q : carload of their wares ascertain wheth-
 CT or not the temperature will change materially during transit of the goods
 to avoid the possibility of cracking by ! expansion CT contraction the expensive ! painting and vanishing on the safes ! Ladies W-fIo desire to give house parties 4 arrange them often after telephonit ! communication with the station, and
 there is scarcely anybody but who ii
 he will can run his business better hy keeping in touch with the bureau
 while in some large shipping lines it is
 almost daily a safeguard against the less of thousands Of dollars.
 So well has this been recognized tha;
 along the Atlantic seaboard and ill
 F'iorid2 there is an arrangement with
 the railroads whereby notable weather 1 changes are announced throughout the country by q code of signals from tho
 whistles Of the locomotives that pass l through the country. The loss of :nt crops means the loss of freights. and after the alarm goes out farmers every
 where begin taking precautionary 1 measures.
 And all this will some day come tc
 this valley, perhaps. if the people ap- ITeciate the service and encourage il
 as they should.