Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-04-04
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Good returns come from the United
States governments search for valua'
Bile foodstuffs. Macaroni wheat, i'm
ported from Prussia at cost Of $1O,-
600, annually yields $10,OO0,000 Sor-
ghum was brought from China In 1864
at cost of $1,000. The nations
source of income from that crop Is $4O,'
100000 annually.
conclusion that the moons surface is
very hot during the height Of the lunar
day, which lasts two weeks, and very
cold during the lunar night, which Is
equally long. These extremes Of tenn
perature reach their height at the lunar
noon and midnight and are greater
than any natural temperatures on the
earth.
Twenty years observation of phthisis
over a district in Dartmoor and North
Devon, England, has convinced investi-
gators that populations exposed to
strong prevalent rainy winds have a
higher death rate from consumption
than populations sheltered from them.
The contrasts in the phthisis death rate
ir the sheltered and exposed parishes
are very marked.
From the point of view Of the engi-
neer, one of the most interesting of
all undertakings in the way of tunnel
building is the new railway tunnel just
completed under the Hudson river be-
tween Weehawken and New York. Its
peculiar interest arises from the fact
that the tunnel not only had to pass
through soft-fowlng river mud, or silt,
but that there was no firm, immovable
foundation to work upon. Overhead
was the great river, with its tides and
its innumerable shipping, and under
meath, not solid rocks to be penetrated,
but a vast depth of soft mud, too deep
to enable the engineers to lay the tun-
mel on its bottom. Yet it has been
within contract time, In less
than three years, and is believed to be
available for the heaviest kind Of rail-
way traffic.
The astronomers are bestirring them
selves in preparation for the return Of
one Of the most famous Of all comets,
that which bears the name Of HALEY.
II Is the greatest comet known to have
been seen at more than one return, it's
average period being about IS years.
1t was last seen in 1885. and will, ac-
rOrding to the most recent calculations,
be visible again early in 1910. The OBJ
ject Of the astronomers at present is
TO predict the moment Of It's perihelion
passage with the utmost possible accu-
racy. Doctor Holetschek, of Vienna, |
thinks it will be visible with tele-
scopes as early as January, 1910, and |
hat by March everybody may see it |
With the naked eye. Later in the year
. is likely to make a startling display,
several hours before sunrise, in the
lorthern quarter of the sky.
Among the many natural curiosities
il Arizona, but one that is not often
listed by ordinary tourists, is the sin
,ular bowl-shaped depression in va
'apai county called "Montezuma's
NeIl' 1t is nearly circular, and be-
ween 500 and 600 feet in diameter at
he brim. 1t lies In the midst of a
learly level area. The sides are verti-
al to a depth of 80 or 40 feet Below
hat they merge into a sloping talus,
which extends down to a circular pool
f water, alleged by popular tradition,
S are SO many other not very deep
reas OF water, to be bottomless. This
formation has usually been
escribed as ''pit crater of volcanic
rigin. But Prof. William P. Blake
eleves it to be the result Of the fall
lg Of the roof of a cavern, formed in
he limestone strata by running water
he water Of the pool, he says. flows
ut through subterranean channel
lto the valley Of Beaver Creek.