The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1927-03-04
To Last Weeks
Questions

%. The Principal Fur Bearing Ami
mails of North America?
In the far north. Polar Bear and
Attic Fox; Boring Sea and Alaska.
the Fur Seal; Extreme Northern
States and Canada. Fisher. Lynx.
Marten, Wolverine and the Foxes,
black, silver, blue cross, and white
Tin small numbers), prices rang
ing downward in order given, (The
Black Fox, when its fur is slight
ly sprinkled With white, is the
famous Silver Fox most parts of
the United States and Canada.
(mostly around streams and lakes)
the Muskrat. Otter, Weasel, Mink
and Beaver; Northern and Western
States and Canada, Timber Wolf
and Brush Wolf: Timbered Por-
tons Western q. S. and Canada,
Grizzly, Cinnamon and Brown Bear;
Western U. S., the Mountain Lion
talso called Panther. Catamount,
Puma and Cougar; Prairie States,
Badger, Coyote; Central and
Southern States, Opposum and CT
vet Cat, Called Polecat); Most
parts of the U. s., Skunk, Wild
Cat. Black Bear, Raccoon, Red and
Gray Fox.
%. The Coolest Place in the u. S.?
At points in Montana. Wyoming
and the Dakotas the thermometer
has been known to reach so be-
low zero. Temperatures as low
as 40 below are not uncommon
along the Canadian border. 1t is
usually a dry cold, and not so Sc
we're on one as a much milder
temperature in a moist climate.
However, they have not much on
other parts of the U. S. The month
of February. 1899, produced the
coolest weather ever known in the
U. S. There was sleighing for
three days in Southern Alabama;
2 inches of ice and 6 above zero
at New Orleans; in northern Flori-
da telephone and telegraph lines
badly damaged by snow and ice;
storm reached to the Rio Grande
in southern Texas; many people
throughout the U. S.
"a. The Hottest?
In 1911 the u. S. Weather Bur-
eau established a station at Green
leaf Ranch. located on the edge
of Death Valley in southern Cali
Almost daily thru June,
July and August the temperature
to 100 or more, and at some
time during each year has passed
100 degrees. On July 10, 1913, a
properly shaded and ventilated
thermometer registered 1874 de-
grees, the hottest temperature ev-
registered in the u. S. and so
as known within two degrees
Of the hottest any place on earth.
the winter season, Death
occasionally has freezing
weather. However, there is no
in the Union where 100 de-
srees or more has not been reached
n some parts of the state. In
of our Central States in
extremely hot summers. G901 for
nstance) the thermometer has
10 to 115 for a number
If days in succession.
IS. Where Does Snow Never Fall?
In the southern part of Florida
md the extreme southern part of
California it never SHOWS.
e. Where Frequently so TO 20 :
Feet? l
In the Cascade Range of noun
in Washington and Oregon, !
t an altitude of 5000 to 5000 feet
he snow fall during a winter has !
cached as much as 80 to 60 feet.
he Sierra Nevada Mountains ex- :
end north and south in California :
or about $50 miles. Far up in /
hese mountains the deepest snow :
4 the U. S. has been experienced. :
It a point called Summit on the =
.outhern Pacific Railroad in 1879 !
0 there was a total snow fall of >
5 feet during the winter. At Tam :
rack not far away on the same :,
Dad. in 18SS-S9 a total depth of :
than 70 feet during the win y
sr. "