The border vidette., 1915-07-17
BUSINESS AND WEATHER.

tIld CIlc SUIe1uOuS SedSOIl O1 0Il
 tertaining Elks, Knights of Co.,
 lumbus, Shriners, and guests from everywhere, is over, let s
 get back in the harness and see
 what there is to do to improve
 the town There's the Park.
 It's annual budget time; what
 are we going to do about it? There are influences at work to
 turn the park space over to com mercial purposes. This would
 be a great mistake and it be- hOOves us to get busy.
 We have rightly gained a re-
 putation for hospitality. But if
 we expect to get conventions and hold our position as head quarters for the West Coast busi- ness interests, we must have a first class hotel.
 The close of the first half of the year is a good time to study the business conditions. Here are a few figures that show No gales to be in a very healthy condition.
 Since January 1st, the total deposits in the Nogales banks have increased a quarter of mil lion dollars, or to be exact, S261, 763. .26. with an increase of bank resources of $265 ,O63. .63. Total bank resources on June 23rd were $3.O42, 963. 93.
 During the past six months, there has been actually con structed buildings to the value of $159, ,OOO, with the prospect in the second half of the year of a building record of over $2OO, GOO.
 The Nogales Building & Loan Association, since the repeal by the recent legislature of double taxation of building and loan stock, has had twenty five ap- plicationS for loans and loans have been made for a total of $29, 300, with applications pend ing now totaling SIG. 200.
 Climate is Nogales' greatest asset. Therefore the weather can be discussed without being accused of having nothing else to write about.
 After greatly prolonged spring, with an extraordinarily cool May, Nogales has experinc- ed a short unusually not sum- mer. Then the rains and the end of real summer weather.
 Since the middle of June, the temperature has ranged from 95 to 1O3. Now what does the Sec retary of the Chamber of Com merce mean by advertising to the world such fearful temper ature records as these? Why just to show that these figures, by comparison with the east and north, are not so bad after all. The heat has not made you very uncomfortable. now, has it? Not a single case of heat prostration either to human being or beast has occurred. All work has gone on as usual. Outdoor oc- have not in the least been interferred with. Men went on with their masonry, or ditch digging or building and other arduouS labors just as usual without the slightest bad effect.
 The eastern papers make front page spreads" when the tenn perature goes about 85 in the cities and many deaths and pros tratiOnS are reported and every body SwelterS and are depressed and morOSe, weak and careless. |
 The El Paso Herald in re- cent article explains this differ ence between eastern conditions and those in this dry air locality.
 The human body keeps cool by a process of evaporation of | moisture from the surface of the | body. The atmosphere may be compared with a sponge. When | the atmosphere is very dry, as it is at Nogales, or, in other words, the relative humidity' stated in percentage of water vapor in the air, is low, then the is in a condition to take up moisture from the human body and promote evaporation when the breeze is constant as it is here.
 Westerners know the principal of the olla, a porous pottery vessel iu which water is kept | cool for drinking and the burlap canteen. The olla or canteen cannot work successful Iy in the eastern and northern humid" country, simply be- cause the atmosphere there is charged with a high degree of