The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1907-08-09
WORKED BY A HAIR.
Few Points About Uncle SANS
Great Monopoly.

A Few Points About Uncle SANS
Great Monopoly.
There is one line Of business which
the trusts have not yet tackled; line,
moreover, that men of all political
faiths seem perfectly content In leav-
ing as 1t u.s., a monopoly owned and con-
Quoted by the government. Such dis
play of Indifference Is no doubt due ON
the one hand to the non-dividend pay
ing nature of the business, and on tho
other hand to the highly efficient way
In which the service Of making weather
predictions Is carried on. While this
branch Of the government service calls
for liberal expenditure, with no d.
rect cash returns, the benefit indirectly
is beyond computation; for that which
serves to- enrich the individuals of
nation also adds to the general pros
perity. Regarding the weather bureaus
efficiency Prof. Willis Moore who Is at
its head, has given out some interest.
ing facts.
1--WE are right about SO times out Of
every 100," he says. This has been
tho average during the past five or ten
years, and believe 1t Is about as well
as we can expect to do with our pres
ent knowledge and machinery. We
hope to learn things yet which will bet
ter our forecasts. The value Of our
work is increasing yearly. The reports
of the weather bureau are now annu-
ally worth millions to the people of the
United States. Indeed they are SO val
liable that the various maritime, agri-
cultural and manufacturing interests
will not permit them to be curtailed
In any way. We have demands for new
stations daily and as it is, l cannot
recommend the establishment Of one In
every fifty of the applications l re-
ceive. At present the increase in the
bureau is not more than four per cent
year. We believe that it should have
a slow and healthy growth, and 1t ID
upon that basis that we are extending
1t as fast as We can"
. Few persons understand the methods
employed by the weather man" In OBJ
tanning the remarkably accurate fore
casts that are daily sent broadcast
, throughout the land, and to the aver
age mind pages Of written matter
, would not make the various processes
5 employed much palmer. 1t is marvel
ous,' the extreme delicacy Of the instru-
ments that are used. Take, for in
3 stance, the automatic recorders, which
3 are sent a mile or so up In the air
inside box kites to chronicle the tenn.
5 perature, humidity and other conditions
Of the atmosphere, as we'll as to writs
: down the velocity Of they wind from
. time to time. The aluminium box con
tanning these instruments Is 80 small
that you could put 1t In your hat; but
its machinery Is such that 1t keeps q
O record Of all these and other thing
as long as 1t Is in the air, giving thu
e different conditions at every altitude
= Tho instrument in the box which meas
II ures the humidity of the air Is worket
- by one human hair, and that the I'm
- silky hair 81 a woman. The. hair ha
20 been SO treated that Its oily particle
:. are removed, and it records the change
,s In moisture by its expansion and con
n traction.
N The thermometer which records tn
,r differences in temperature Is littl
metal bow, with liquid inside, whicl
ID also expands and contracts, and all tn
" Instruments Of this kind are such tina
lie they must work In temperatures who
s. vary from 100 degrees below zero I
s. LOG degrees above 1t. As the kite goe
re up into the air 1t soon reaches tn
n freezing point and the atmospher
IL grows colder and colder as it rises
III The ink must be such that 1t will no
freeze and the oil must work dow,
to 100 degrees Of cold.