The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-10
MILLION DOLLAR
WEATHER IS HERE
# It Lasts, the Wheat Crop
Will Be All
Right. Ia.
The Situation Far More Encour-
aging Than It Was a
Week Ago.

Million dollar weather and millions
to the northwest if it lasts. A weather
map full of ramifying lines, with
"hiph' and "Iow' areas touching and
almost overlapping, was posted for to,
day, indicating weather outlook full
of uncertainty for the country as a
whole, but carrying salvation to the
northwest in a forecast for fair wealth
er tonight and Tuesday for Minnesota
and the Dakotas.
The week opened at the Chamber of
Commerce with hope revived and the
northwest crop situation admittedly
improved by the good weather over
Sunday. With a rainfall for June Of
almost eight inches, and July starting
in at the same rate, the wheat was in
condition where more rain would have
worse would have been extremely hot
weather following the soaking, for this
would have started rust. 1t is inter-
mittent rain, followed by extreme heat,
that favors the spread of rust. The turn
from rain to clear weather was grad
ual. No extreme temperatures were
felt anywhere, and the wheat dried out
well.
The Crop Against Time.
Today it is question of the crop
against time. The wheat, on the aver
age, is back from ten days to two
weeks. Every day of weather like that
lying in wait, but it is quite possible
for the crop to escape a serious black
rust visitation if the kind Of weather
remains that will send the grain tC
maturity before the rust gets at it
The situation, on the whole, looks more
favorable today than it has looked at
any time for a month.
The morning brought in over a hun
dred mail and telegraphic reports from
points all the way from Winnipeg south
to the Iowa line, and while there is a
prayer for continued good weather ano
evidence Of solicitude in nearly all, the
summary is decidedly more hopeful.
The map posted by the department
this morning showed a succession of
circles, and long irregular lines, en-
bracing no less than seven distinct
"lows' and four '7highs.O One low
area covered the sand and cactus in
the Phoenix, Flagstaff and Yuma coun-
try, G6Htering over Arizona. Another
ranged from Port Arthur to Q'apelle
in the anadian northwest. One
''high' was along coast ON the Allan.
tic from Delaware south, another off
The third "high' covered Miles City
and Helena, Mont. The fourth "high'
was the most remarkable, beginning
west of Port Arthur, Ont, and RUNNING
into the southwest, thru Rapid City
Grand Junction, Santa Fe and Anne
rillo, on the west line, and coming out
of Texas on the east line thru Abilene
touching Wichita and passing between
Kansas City and Concordia, turning
dropping to Chattanooga and into sal
water thru Jacksonville, Fla. Within
the south central bend of this "high,'
lay the third 'Flow,' coming up from
Galveston all the way to Keokuk ant
indianapolis and back to the gulf be
tween Mobile and Pensacola. Thu
most important wheat fields of thu
northwest lie clearly inside the grea
"high' and appear assured of dr.,
weather for at least a forty-eight hou
period. The winter wheat harves
fields are not so fortunate, and tn
shifting of a line either way ma,
change the southwest outlook owe
night