The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-09-08
OF STORMS TO CROSS
TIE CONTINENT.
THE NEXT DISTURBANCE
\ Return to Seasonablc temperatures
and Moderate Changes - Rough
Weather and Serious Storms Fol
lowing September Fourteenth.

copyrighted 1907 by W. 7. Fo>ter)
Washington. Sept. LAST bulletin
! gave forecasts of disturbance to cross
| the continent September : TO 0, warm
wave 4 to 8. cool wave to II. The next
disturbance will reach the Pacific coast
about 10. cross west Of the Rockies by
close Of II. great central valleys II to
II. eastern states IS. Warm wave will
cross west Of the Rockies about TO- the
great central valleys u, eastern states
Ia. Cool wave will cross west Of the
Rockies about 10, great central valleys
IS, eastern states u.
This disturbance will follow long
period of very cool weather. and will
bring a return to scasonable tenpera-
lures and moderate changes. But about
and following September ID look out for
rough weather and severe storms.
The weather feature connected with
this disturbance and most to be feared
in northern sections will reach meridian
co not far from 10. and frosts may be
expected in places where frosts some
times occur at that season.
Immediately following September 7 a
wave of excessively cool weather is eX-
pected to move across the great central
valleys and astern states 1t Will cause
alarm as to frosts i'll northern states
where crops are not mature. and | ex-
pect tese frosts to do some damage to
the corn crop. Rainfall of middle week
Of September is expected to he about
normal, but it will be greater i'll the
territory within 200 miles of St. Louis
than elsewhere
SCIENCE NOTES.
On the western shores of Chesapeake
bay thousands of mar-eating shark teeth
are picked up on the beach where they
are washed up by the waves. hese
teeth are in excellent condition and so
hard that to make holes in them dia-
mond drill is necessary. As there has |
been no shark in that bay for many
years and as these shark teeth are as
plentiful now as they were ten years
ago. the question as to their origin Is
often asked. | have just returned from
a few days outing at Chesapeake beach
and the shark teeth question interested
me. My family gathered up 1000 OF
these teeth on the beach. We found
some of them imbedded in soapstone i'll
the bluffs. thirty feet below the land
surface and thirty feet above high tide
The engineer of the power house at J
Chesapeake Beach. who has been res
ident there for nine years. informed me |
that in excavating fer the railroad to
that resort ten years aga. thousands OF
shark teeth were found fifteen miles
back from tde-water.
The sea is now cutting into these
bluffs or promontories. and the remains
of great sea animals. shells and shark
teeth are found.
These facts indicate that. ages i'll the
past, the present hills near Chesapeake
bay were mountains that have since
washed into the sea and covered up the
shark teeth and other remains; that the
sea level was then at least sixty feet /
higher than now. and that the eroslons
of the sea are now uncovering these
shark teeth, which are almost as endur-
able as granite.
On August n corn went above Coo,
Chicago markets. That crowns my sec
ond recent great victory at long range
weather forecasting Six months ago.
when corn was ACC. these bulletins ad-
vised farmers not to sell till it reached
Coo The great spectators tried every
device to draw the corn into the market
from the farmers, but the latter held
because of my advice and millions OF
dollars have thereby been saved to them,
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