The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-06-18
WEATHER BULLETIN
FORECAST OF STORMS TO CROSS
THE CONTINENT.
RAINFALL VERY PROBABLE
Cool Wave will Bring Relief and
Start the Temperature Downward
Severe Local Storms Will Break
Loose in Some Places.

copyrighted 1911 BY w. 7. Fosterl
Washington, June lT.-Last bullc-
tin gave forecasts Of disturbance to
cross the continent June II to 2i,
warm wave t6 to 20, cool wave 10 to
%. The special features of this dis
turbance will be the part it will
play in the closing days of the great
high temperature period of June.
It's cool wave will bring relief, start
the temperatures downward and
cause some rain that may be the en-
tering wedge toward breaking the
drouth where it shall have been too
dry. Severe local storms will break
loose in some places while this dis
turbanCe is passing.
/ The next disturbance will reach
the Pacific coast about June 22
cross The Pacific slope by close of
%. great central valleys ~ TO 26,
eastern sections Il. Warm wave
will cross Pacific slope about June
%, great central valleys 2i, eastern
sections 26. Cool wave will cross
Pacific slope about June 25, great
Icentral valleys 27, eastern sections
%. This disturbance will develop
more than usual force and in some
places will bring on severe local
storms. Cooler weather will pre-
vail, and drouth will be broken in
some places. Very cool weather may
be expected as the cool wave of this
disturbance comes in.
Drouth conditions will probably
continue about and south of the up
per great lakes, but on large parts
Of the continent the drouth will give
way as July enters. But the crop
season of 1911 will be noted for good
rains in spots while severe drouth
prevails in other spots. This con-
dition comes from thunder showers,
also called electrical storms Gen
eral rains that are so vastly bene-
fetal to the growing crops have not
been expected for this year.
1t is very difficult to locate these
spots where thunder showers will
fall and other spots where drouth
will prevail. In fact, it can not be
done. All we can do is to forecast
the drouthy conditions which usu-
ally include some severe local thun-
der storms.
On the plains within 200 miles
east Of the Rockies lie the finest
wheat lands the world ever saw.
The only defect is in rainfall Those
lands will produce we'll about one
third of the time and when they do
produce their best yields, there is
no surer and quicker way to make
fortunes. It is better than the rich
est gold mines on earth. I now be-
lieve that the years of plenty on
those plains can be foretold.
The great wheat belt stretches
400 miles northward from New
Mexico and Texas to the northern
parts of Alberta and Saskatchewan
Fin strip 200 miles wide and cover
ing 100000 square miles. Those rich
wheat lands produce best when the
lower valley lands of the Mississip-
pi produce least, because when good
rains fall in those valleys at the
right time of year to make good
wheat they have drouth on the
highlands of the plains. The reverse
of this is also true.
am confident that | could, by do
| ing lot of hard mathematical work
on the rainfall records, select four
years out Of which three great
wheat years would be assured for
those plains states.
That method would bring imme-
diate rich returns and save the
great losses that come in the drouth
years. But | have not the means to
support me in such an undertaking,
! The Carnegie millions are being
used to discover new and far away
clusters of stars while no one comes
TO the support Of the great possibil-
tiles referred to above.