Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-07-21
FACTS
WEATHER BUREAU
Ye who Have Termed Exagger-
ated Ideas Should Read

LIE OlIlCC VI bHS
Bureau recently located in Tonopah has
naturally attracted much interest and
attention. The equipment is complete
and consists of instruments and appa-
ratus for determining the most i'm
portant feature of the local climate.
Every change in the temperature OF
the air by day or night is recorded by a
thermometer which makes a contin-
uous chart for every hour throughout
the year. Other thermometers, almost
equally ingenious in their construction,
record the highest and lowest daily
extremes of temperature. Still an
other instrument shows by means OF
mercurial thermometers the relative
amount of moisture which the air con-
tains. This instrument consists of two
thermometers, just alike, mounted on
a standard which permits them to be
whirled rapidly through the air. The
bulb Of one of them is covered with
wet muslin. The rapid whirling chills
the wet bulb causing its temperature
to fall rapidly. The number Of degrees
which the wet bulb falls in tempera-
ture is an index to the amount OF
moisture which the air contains.
Other pieces of apparatus record
automatically the direction and velocity
of the wind; these instruments, too,
make continuous records for every houi
; in the "a. Still other positions of the
equipment make continuous automatic
records of sunshine and cloudinesl
while others record the rainfall ant
snowfall.
All the while, this new station of tn
> wheather bureau is simply a means o
obtaining exact knowledge of tn
T, phenomena of the air in this region
!, the temperature of the air, its pres
|, sure, it's capacity for moisture, tn
direction of air currents and thei
velocity, the presence of clouds an
: their condensation into rain and snow
: the amount of sunshine, all thes
!, factors of the local climate are OF
served with scientific accuracy.
!. Throughout the United States an
- wherever people take an interest in tn
&c Tonopah mines, the reports of weathe
y conditions here will be read with gres
interest. Much of the success an
prosperity of any city depends upo
" its climate. There are widesprea
reports in circulation to the effect ths
y the climate of Tonopah is insufferabl
hot and dry. Both the heat and tn
l dryness are greatly exaggerated.
y is highly unlikely that the heat
greater here than it is in most of Il
a prominent eastern cities. The dry a
makes the heat endurable and proven
p%rostration and sunstroke. The he
of q moist region is scarcely to
u endured because it causes prespirati,
~ which does not evaporate rapidly al
so does little to cool the body. He
u the perspiration evaporates at on
ne and keeps the body reasonably cool
>" the time.
lc The intense clearness of the &
favors a rapid cooling of the earth
y night. Air filled with smoke and du
icy and moisture acts like a blanket in t
heat at night, making the SUNNI
nights in many eastern cities times
~ sleepless misery.
nat Here the clear deseret air holds
'ns heat. Night comes, cool and serel
ISL after the hottest days and with mig
nc comes sleep.
Ken From now on, all the facts of
climate of Tonopah will be record
with absolute accuracy and telegraph
VI daily to San Francisco and from tn
to the cities of the entire Unit
NJ States. This system cannot fail
ne correct many false impressions and
lsiy show that the climate here in ms
nat respects excels the climate of mi
the favored regions.
nat The Tonopah Office of the weatl
ing bureau is in charge of Mr.. X. c. Pie.
uch who is always glad to explain
tne visitors the working of the vari
instruments and their interesting
lAs important records.
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