New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-01

from turtveight TO fifty degrees above zero. and It
Will drop steadily the storm goes east giving Spokane
possibly zero weather, and Medicine Hat as low as
twenty Co forty below zero; IN which the tcmpcra
turc IN ST. Paul Chicago, Detroit, Boston, and other
point, along the route will hold pretty close to that of
Western Montana. which is slightly warmer than
Medicine Hat. New York will be somcwha, warmer;
bu, /, viii be fcariully cold, and much suffering will
result, it always does in any bis city.
Thus the Big Storm is a menace 90 humanity and to
shipping as II passes But without it an Northern
America would be a desert, for il brings an the snow
or rain that forms the water supply for the Missouri
Mississippi River. the Columbia River. and the Sas
iatchcwan River systems and these are the three big
rivers Of the continent The Ohio gets Of its water
from the Big Storm, and some from storms that swing
northeast from the Gull Of Mexico The Yukon derives
nearly all It's water from the SHOWS brought bv the Big
Storm and every forest of any size the continent
depends on and is caused by the moisture from Big
Storms that follow another along the storm track as
described here. All forests worth the name in the
United States on the western slope Of mountain
ranges in this storm track except the white pine that
grew west of the heads Of the Great Lakes which was
directly in the Big Storm path
The only other forests in the country are the yellow
pine and cypress lands Of the Southern States which
&c, their moisture from the Gulf storms and the
pncries Of Maine, which get most Of their moisture
from the Big Storm though not all as is derived
from the Gull storms sweeping norheastward.
TIMBER is not nor has it ever been anywhere in the
world, cause Of moisture Instead, timber, and
an other heavy vegetable growth well is the direct
result Of moisture, and steady, continuous supply of
moisture at that notwithstanding the theoretical CON
scrvationist who SAYS we should save our timber to
save our water supply Nothing could be farther from
the truth for the simple that timber is ire
,nenious user Of moisture and the supply Of moisture
comes over certain fixed routes that definite storm
tracks which existed ages before the first tree blade
Of grass ever grew the soil that the storm track
crosses.
The Rocky Mountains in Glacier Park Montana,
directly in the path O: the Big Storm ten thousand
feet high; yet the strata perfectly fiat, and fossil
scashes exist the very top OF the range, showing
plainly that these prescn, mountainous We're once the
scabcd When they came above sea level there were
certainly no growing them nor did trees grow
there until moisture from the Big Storms had washed
the sirpu, salt from the soil And the Big Storm was
on the job travelling the route the day the first
land came TIP out Of the sea- for its course depends
on the trend Of the ocean shore line, which in turn
governs the course Of the ocean currents that give their
moisture to the Big Storm
Pl nlv then the moisture came before the first tree,
and it has watered every tree that since Plainly,
also the trees appear where the moisture falls, and
vanish where the moisture ceases; else they would grow