The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-07-03
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, Curves in Sequoias Show Famine
, in Time Of Prophet Elijah.

. Curves in sequoias Show Famine +.
+" In Time Of Prophet Elijah. .
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(Chicago News.)
Biblical history has been recalled
ment to assist in advertising a new
pamphlet it has just issued on the
giant trees Of California. The tree
scientists have discovered In the grains
Of the California trees what they
claim to be unmiatakable proof that
the great drought and famine in
Palestine. in the days Of the prophet
Elijah. $40 years before Christ. was
equally felt on the Pacific Goa of the
agent Of the bureau Of forestry tells
his own story in the following Ian
guage:
In the days Of the Prophet Elijah
sore famine afflicted the land Of Pal
estine. No rain fell, the brooks ran
dry and dire disaster prevailed. Go
through the land said King Ahab to
fountains Of water and INTO all the
i brooks; peradventure we may find
grass and save the horses and the
mules alive. that we lose not all the
beasts
When Obadiah went forth in
search Of forage he fell in with his
chief, Elijah, and brought him to
bier Of Israel. Then Elijah prayed
for rain. according to the bible story.
and h famine was stayed. From this
famine in Palestine, some $40 years
before Christ. to the forests of the
Sierra Nevadas. in the twentieth cen
fury. is a far cry, but the connecting
link between the past and the present,
1 hnkUyAn~ th4 N~1S>-< @A~& 40 AZ ~~-a
ern west, 10 found in the big trees OF
California, the huge species known as
Sequoia Washingtoniana.
In, the publication entitled 1.-THE
Secret OF the Big Trees by Ellsworth
Huntington, just placed on sale by the
superintendent of documents, Wash
ington. D. c.. 1t Is shown that the
growth rings In the big trees Of Cali.
foEnia indicate that in general the
took place in California and Asia
Minor. Curves indicating climatic
conditions In California and Asia
Minor show q remarkable resemblance
between the two regions.
The curves begin with the epoch
OF the Trojan war. about 1900 B. C.
There both curves dip very low, in:
severe d~essication. That particular
period. historians tell us. was one Of
the most chaotic in all history.
THE famine in the days of Elijah
appears in both urves Apparently
at that time the climate did not be.
come extremely dry. nothing like sc
bad as 1t had been a few hundred
fury, but there was rather a distinc,
falling of in the amount Of rainfall
as compared with the uncommonly
good conditions Of the preceding cen.
fury. About 700 years before Chris
both curves stand high in the da,
when the Greeks were laying tn.
foundation Of their future greatness
and the empires Of Mesopotamia wer'
at their height. Then comes a pro
nounced falling of. with a recover,
800 or 400 years before Christ, an
other decline eliminating about 2Ol
b. c. and a recovery reaching a higt
point about 80 B. G.
The time of Christ, the great err
Of universal peace under the swa,
Of Rome, was apparently an epoch o;
favorable climate, a time Of abundan,
rain and consequent good crops in all
the countries around the Mediterran.
can sea and eastward in Asia, as vel
as in California. Next comes a Ions
period of decline eliminating six OIL
seven centuries after the time o.
Christ. No period in all history, save
Ihat Wnlcn centefS ABOUT 1ZOO b. G.
was more chaotic, and that early
period also appears to have been q
time of greatly diminished rainfall"
This publication, which may be pur.
chased from the superintendent OF
documents, government printing Of.
flee. for hve cents. gives a detailed
account of the reasons and the work
that led to the conclusions given
above. It also contains thirteen illus
| trations. showing the hiu frao~ In 49,
Yosemite. sequoia and General Grant
national parks.
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