The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-12-23
TO GET rain WE
MUST ASK CONGRESS

Your admirable article on Hatfield
and his rain making work hits the nail
on the head.
Bottineau famers want to give Hat
field contract coming summer but
he can't fill it because he has already
signed for a contract elsewhere. I
asked him to let his brother run one
contract and he run the other and
thus keep the money in the family, but
he has reasons why this can't be done.
In his San Diego contract in July 1915
he gave US the biggest storms in 100
years, filled all reservoirs to over
flowing. It began to rain in a days
after he commenced and ceased the
very day he quit and the records
showed that Morena dam whers he
worked was the center of the storm
yet the San Diego wise acres couldn't
see that le caused the rain because it
was raining at Los Angeles. They
failed to see that it always rains at
Los Angeles when we get a rain here
but the trouble is that when they get
a 2 inch rain we get mere sprinkle
lust Ell, ugh to lay the dust.
What Hatfield does is to develop q
2 inch rain out Of a sprinkle, given
clouds in the sky and he can cause
them to multiply and to precipltate
where raw they pass away.
II tlat is the case with you he can
help you. IF you have. no clouds he
eonsf ,,rnduco ,.ain
The reason why Hatfield can never
do 1-10Oth part of the good he might
do, Is because it is q secret process
and if he takes q partner he risks the
total loss because some one would
come along and bribe the partner to
betray the secret, or even If the part
ner is honest, he might by sheer care
les. ness let the secret out.
In this view Of the matter l, al
agent for Hatfield in all San Diego
contracts wrote to the u. s. Weather
Bureau and to President Wilson (who
has never acknowledged over 20 let
ters have sent him on war matters,)
also to the Secretary of Agriculture,
urging them to let Hatfield demon
strate his powers on. the mo rain no
pay' principle and If satisfied he can
"work the trick" then ask Congress TO
buy his secret and give him an annuity
Of say $4,000 q month, then operate
it over all the arid districts Of the ..
s. thro the Forestry Bureau and make
tens of thousands Of square miles OF
land produce food and give employ
ment 10 hundreds of thousands Of men
and think Of the houses and the plows
and tractors and trucks and also the
increase Of population, i.
Il Is almost incredible but the truth,
that the u. S Bf.ruaeknu
that the u. s. Bureau wrote me u
1915 seThis bureau does not believe
that Mr.. Hatfield or any one else can
produce rain from . cloudless sky.
/ replied that he doesn't claim to do
ANYTHING Of the kind. There are times
when clouds gather over arid districts.
II have seen the, s1y here during 9
years drought black with clouds only
81 yesterdays San Diego Union, the
reporter said twice in ten days the
slries looked most threatening and the
weather man predicted . storm, and
we rot about 1-1O0th sof n inchl
Any school boy could tell the
NFlier bureau syour disbelief has
nd ling Whatever 10 do with i. i
Hafllsld offers 70 prove Il and Do
% q lis own lisk and expense surely
any sane and competent man would
say, Go ahead, TIL believe Il i ! 80
itnot before. z,
Not so the u. S. Weather Bureau. !
wrote and told them if Marconi, q