The Oregon scout., November 16, 1888, Image 1

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VOL. V.
UNION, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER. 1(5, isssT
no. 21.
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THE
Oregon
Scoot.
An independent weekly Journal, i5i!ciW v
ory Friday morning !v
JOJTES & C'HAXCEY,
I'tibli-hrr .iiid Proprietor.
, K. .loans, i
Ktlitor. t
15. CllAM'EY,
1 Fotcinan.
11ATI1S OF SUUSCKIPTIONl
One enpv, oni- vear $1.W)
" ' Six months . . 1.00
" Thrco inontos .75
Invariably CaMi In -Advance.
Tiains ;itui' : depart from I nlun
I dailv. ;t '.;.,-
NORTH JJOWDER.
Paragraphic Record of the Hap
penings of the Week.
COl'I'S LAND ItUVIKW.
Necessity fur Kxlon-liui if Survi'jri III
cirntir Toreo In Hit- Lniitt Olllre,
L.OCAL OIPltOVEMEXTS.
If hi chance xithrrrijilion arc not paid till
M( ot tmr, tiro iloUacs h'U be cimrgm.
HAr l'i.l.!. ui.st m.t mi
IVtcnger. No. , IAeilWetiger.No.a.L'vc
at r.:i a. m. I at 1 :.!0 i. in.
1-reisht, No. S, L'vclFreirdit No. 7. L'vc
lit 2::V a. ni.
at 11 :'J0 p. m.
Kates of adverting made known on .p- TICKETS ft .$& ttclSdn
plication
SSJ-Corrtpondence from all parts of the
country solicited.
Adres all coimnunlcationgto this Orkoojj
ficob'T, Union Oregon.
UT-JLLH1JH.J.I L.L.f. II. . 1 1
The Citizens Wry Anxious to interview
Young llrnuckliis.
1SSS.
I'ltOFKSSIOXAl.
J. A. Eakin,
Notary l'ublic.
It. Eakin,
J EAKLN, fc BROTHER,
Attorneys at Lav,
Union, Oregon.
USTTrompt Attention Paid to Collect. ons.
JOHN It. CRITES,
Attorney at Law.
Collecting and probate practice .special
ties. Olllcc, two doors south of pnst-olllce,
Union, Oregon.
J N. CROMWELL, M. D. ,
Physician and Surgeon.
Office, one door south of J. 15. Eaton's
atom, Union, Oregon.
and KuroH'.
Elegant Pug"" Cars.
Emigrant Stoi ping Cars Hun Through
'in i-.ro-s rains tj
COUNCIL BLUFFS
and ST.PA5JL
Froo of Charge and Without Change.
Close connections at Portland for San Fran
cisco and I'uget Sound points.
For further particulars inquire of anv
Agent of the Coiupauv or of A. L. Maxwell,
C P. itT. A., Portland. Oregon.
OCEAN DIVISION.
The Oregon Hallway .fc Navigation Co., and
raeitie Coast Steamship Co. will (lis
patch Steamers between San Fran
cisco and Cortland. a follows:
Q II. DAY, M. D
1I0MEPATIIIC
Physician and Surgeon.
AM, CALLS I'UOMI'TLY ATTUXIiEIl TO.
Ofllce adjoining .lones liro's store. Can
be found nights at the Centennial hotel,
room No. 23.
M. Uakku. J. W. Siici.ton. J. F. Ha k nit.
lAKElt, SI 1 ELTON & 1UICEH,
KitoM roitn.vKK.
Leaving at 12 MMn't.
as fulw:
KKuJl SAN I IlANCIbCO.
II. 'v'ng Spear st.wii'
ut 10a.m. as follows:
Elder, Sunday Nov
State, Tliuixlay, ,,
Columbia, Mon' ,,
Oregon, Friday ,,
State. Tuesday ,,
Columbia, hat. ,,
Oregon. Wed. ,,
tjHtate, Sat. Nov
SiColumbia. Wed. ..
12,Oregon, Sunday
H ptate, Thursdav
20 Columbia, Mon.
2t Oregon. Friday
2S State, Tuexlav
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Tho company reserves the right to change
steamers or sailing days.
Attorneys at Lav.
OFFICES Union and La Grande, Ore
gon. Special Attention given allj business
entrusted to ns.
H. CUAWFORD,
Attorney at Law,
Union, Oregon.
Oilico, one door toutli of Centennial ho
tel g V. WILSON,
Conveyancer and Abstracter.
Abstracts to Ileal and Mining property
furnished on short notice, at reasonable
rates.
Sales of Ileal and Mining property nego
tiated. Collection business promptly at
tended to.
Olllce next door south of Post-olllce. Un
ion, Oregon.
A. L. SAYLOK, M. D
Physician and Surgeon,
North. Powder, Oregon..
Has permanently located and will attend
all professional calls day or night.
Office: Drug storo building: rosidencc.
one door west of Uodgera' hotel.
HATES OF PASSAGE:
Cabin. - - 110.00 Steerage - - $8,00
Hound Trip Tickets, Unlimited - ?80.0J
Children, miller 12 years - - Half Fare
,, o years - - - l-rce
The above rates include Ttoartl.
W. II. 1IOLCOM1!, I A. L.MAXWELL,
Gen'l Manager. . G. P. & T. A,
II. L. DEACON. Agent. Union.
UNION
Tonsoria! Parlors
L. J. IU'skk. I'Kornir.Toit,
Shaving, Hair-cutting and ShamJ
pooing, in the Latest style
of the Art,
Shop one door south of Centennial hotel.
GIVE US a CALL.
!) 2S-tf.
RIZE ft RAWING!
RIZeHJ RAWING!
A Hare Opportunitv to .Secure an Elegant
J'resent !
From this timo until the2.'ith of Deeem-
Nov. 18,
The drama was u success.
The rtthonl is iillinj; uj.
Tlio North Powder lnil! are in need
of whont.
Mr. Sherwood loft for California on
Monday.
Internal improvement is going on
at the North Powder hotel.
Mr. Morris Levy will retire from
lUMne.:s hero about January 1st,
Ellsworth Whitehead, of Island
City, is clerking for (iorhum it !oth
ehild. Wm. Higgs won about $1100 in
horses and money on the election last
Tuesday.
Ike Miller has sold his farm 'and
mining interests at Haines and moved
to this place.
Mis. Waldreth went to Union on
Sunday with a view of engaging in
the hotel business.
A general free light occurred Tues-
l (lay evening. Mourning optics wore
visible next day as u result.
Mr. Al. Gates, recently clerk at the
Rodgers hout-e, is now in the employ
of Mr. Mitchell near Telocacet.
Mr. Uallingal will remove his saw
mill, soon, back into the mountains
on account of scarcity of timber.
Guns for IC company have arrived,
but for temporary use only, as they
are not of the regulation pattern.
A petition for a requisition from the
Governor for Brookins return is in
circulation and is being freely signed.
Mr. Farquhar Shaw will attend com
mercial school at Baker during tho
winter. Ho leaves here next Monday.
Poisoning dogs as a pastime by
some unknown partv mav result in
trouble to him should it be persisted
in.
Collections for a der-titute family
residing on Henry Lewis' farm were
taken up on Saturday by Mrs. Steph
ens. Tun Scorr must have been on a
scouting expedition last week as it
failed to reach us until Sunday morn
ing.
The engineer and fireman at Ballin
gal's mill settled tho tarifl" question
last week by a knock out without
gloves.
A new bridge across tho river near
town is badly needed. Tho old one is
umafe and not in use and fording will
soon coast;.
About .f 00 was netted for the? church
fund by the entertainment given last
Tuesday evening. The rendition of
tho drama "Above tho Clouds" was
well sustained by each of tho charac
ters, especially for beginners. Taking
into consideration the fact that easv
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Official Report on the Wheat
Lands of Has tern Oregon.
US li VUIj I XFOIJM.AT I OX.
An Aitlolo rutiJfclH-.l rov tlin Iteiudt of
Otir CniU'rii llcniloi-N.
A feattue of Commissioner Stocks
lager's report which will bo commend
ed by the people of the land Slates in
which public surveys aie incomplete,
is the recommendation for inereaoed
appropriations for survovinj? public
lands, and his remarks in this con
nection tending to prove Biat good
work can not be done for the prices
$7 to iff) per mile now allowed for
surveying.
The act of March 1SS7, dirocta
that railroad grants shall bo adjusted
without, delay, and much fault haa
been found with the hind office for an '
ppaient lack of energy in this direct
ion. It seems that congrem, in its
wisdom or Inch thereof, or through tho , gathered in KSMfi. and all statements
carelessness of men having the matter of acreage, profits, etc., refer to years
in charge, does not know that it is j prior to I8SB. Tho following extracts
utterly impossible to adjust the largest j aro taken front it.
grant, for tho ronron that millions of S "The interior wheat lands of Oregon
acres of lands lying within tho granted and Washington Territory have at
a'nd indemnity limits aro unsurveyed, i trnetod attoution by their unfailing
large average yield, the
A report on tho interior wheat lands
of Oregon and Washington Territory
was recently transmitted I to tho United
States Senate, by tho Secretary of War
in response to a resolution calling for
it. H was compiled by fVeond Lieut.
Frank (ircene, Signal Corps U. S.
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nnu wus prepared irom uaia
J W. STRANGE,
DENTIST,
La Grande, Oregon.
Will visit Union regularly on tho
first Monday of each month.
ALL WORK WARRANTED
FIRST CLASS
and Graceful milliners nn ni.tmiviwl i,v
iwm s ArtT ?,,d tlmt ,lui r"-
titled to a ticket which will give them a i lcr Mr' i- 1 Jcilt- was unablo to
tin) drawing ot the following , io present only at ono rehearsal, and
clmi.eo In
beautiful preheat
1 Satin Toilet Set, tire pieces,
2 Embroidered Table Scarf,
.". Hand Puinted Tidy.
I Embroidered Lambrequin,
Xt Linon Toilet Set, live pieses.
Drawing- to take place Dec. 2c
MHS. MDWELL.f . .
M Its. HEN.SON.i Proprietors.
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0RT6AGE
Hank,
UNION, OREGON.
$500,000.00 to Loan on
First Class Security,
From One to Five Years Time, at a Low
Itutt of Interest, Also Iluys, Sells
and llents Property lor
Non-renidenU. T
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CORNUCOPIA
Stages leave Union every Monday, Wed
neiidny and Friday,
Leave Cornucopia on return trip every
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
Freight
Passengers and Last
Carried.
Z. NELSON, - - -
8-?U-tf
Proprietor.
'ONEY HECEIVED ON DEP0S1 I
To be Invested on Guaranteed Security.
All Collections Promptly
Attended to Without Delay.
h Line Is Ceve.
Q
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lea
t-Iarot.
tno linutut timo prior to the enter
tainment' for practice, we must but
conclude they acquited themselves
nobly. An appreciative audience, well
filling the house, greeted them on
their appcaranco on tho stage. Suit
able nuifeic for tho occasion was ren
dered by an impromptu orchestra
consisting of Mrs .Jap. II. Slovens,
Mastor Waldreth, Frank NofT, J. A.
Hardin and Al. Goodui. It is hoped
the organization may bo kept tip
among the young theatricals and that
wo will bo favored by a number of en
tertainments during tho Vintor.
Ajax.
Main Street. Union, Oregon,
BENSON BROS. - PROPRIETORS.
I.e.u. Union diily at 2 p. tu, arrives at
Cove at 3:150 p. in.
Leaves Cuvo at S a. in , arrivs at Union
at 0.3 a. in.
Con no tin mod with RlUott's eoach
running to the dful, carrying pmismptr
for cum .tud MtMt oouiwl trains.
UATr.t for IMKjntNOIllt.S.MIOO.U.j;
uu.l I'lIIIlGUT, ltliAHO.VAIII.il.
Keep ooiutantly on hand
HEI5F, PORK- VEAL, MUTTON,
SAUSAGE, HAM, LARD. Etc.
KentiickyLiauorStorB
AND SODA FACTORY,
Cor. Mailt and II U. Unluii. Ortgon,
ftltKUUAX UAt-UV, ITup..
'' ni . , . , , ! r. In A..ln Wa.
'1' ' j.. ii tiil Ai. Ijtmhi sod
JtUMnVS unit VOUTII.
Mrs. Plarbo Chesley, Peterson, Clay coun
ty, Iowa, tcllN the following remarkable sto
ry, tho truth of which Is vouched for hy tho
i(tIdcnts of tho town: "I am years old,
have been troubled with Kidney complaint
and lameness for many jrart; could not
dress lnynelf without help. Now I am free
from all pain and sorenens, mid am able to
do all my own housework. I owe ny thanks
to Electric Hitters for having renewed my
youth, and removed completely all riUeuMo
ami pain." Try a bottle, only .10 cents at
V rlght'h drug More, Union, Oregon.
EAGLE COOPER SHOP,
S. B. Aylcn, proprietor. Manufac
turer of hutlor barrels and kegs. A
good supply always on haiid. Shop
south of school house, Union, Oregon.
and no appropriation has been made
to meet the expense of the surveys ab
solutely iiidNpenablo in tho adjust
ment of the grants. By reason of in
failure to survey the lands in these
grants the companies aro permitted to
hold the lands, without taxation, and
reap the benefits of the iucroaso in
value, while the people along the lines
are com polled to carry the entire bur
den of tho local government. This is
outrageous discrimination in favor of
the corporations, discouraging to tho
would-be settler, and detrimental to
the growth of communities and im
provement of the country, practically
defeating the objects for which tho
grants were made. It is to bo hoped
that the very sensible suggestion of
the commissioner on the subject of
surveyu will bo seconded by the Secre
tary of tho Interior and acted upon by
congress at tho next session.
lno adjournment oi congrofs on
Saturday without having passed either
tho general land bill or the bill forfeit
ing railroad grants fulfills Uio pre
dictions made m the. first of
this series of letters', (o which refer
ence has once or twice boon made
since. It is to bo hoped that tho next
session of eongi 083 will bo moro pro
ductive of results in this respect. Tho
presidential, election will then lmvo
become a thing of the part, and legis
lation for the good of tho country
without rcgaid to effect upon political
organizations or tho prospects of can
didates for office, may bo enacted.
The suggestion of tho commifHioner
that the force of his oilico should be
increased should be seconded heartily
by all persons interested in laud mot
lets. Tiio fact that 2811,1 ."ill final on
irics of various clauses are pending
before tho land office, and that with iU
present force the ofl'co can dispose of
only about To.ODO cmo.i per annum, is
sufficient argument to prove the need
oi increased force aid a strong effort
should bo made by Ike ieople of tho
land States and Territories to impress
upon Iho minds of their representa
tives in congress tho importance of
their interests, and necessity for moro
prompt adjudication of land eaaes.
11ENPY N. COPP.
A WARNING.
crops,, the
comparatively small amount of precip
itation, and tho general dryness of tho
summer months. The latter feature
has gained for these districts the or
w - Pit 1
uiiii-uus immo oi tne rainless regions
of Oregon and Washington
In Oregon the interior wheat lands
extend over the principal part of the
Slato lying between latitudes -I I de
grees, !" minute?, and -Hi degrees, and
between th'j ono hundred and so von
tcenlh and the one hundred and
twenty-first meridians west of Grccn-
! wicn, wim a smaller sec ion m t u
southern part of Lake and Klamath
counties, covering, in all, about SOO
townships, or 7,000,000 acres of land.
Probably one-fifth of this amount
sh'ould be deducted on account of
steepness. A very largo tract lying
between the forty-second and the forty
fourth parallels cannot bo clashed as
wheat hinds, as wheat can onlv bo
successfully grown hy irrigating tho
soil ; but in these portions the breed
ing of cattle and horses may form a
very profitable occupation. The
wheat lands are elevated, rolling table
lands, tho elevation abovo sea-level
increasing rapidly from tho Columbia
river from .'502 feet at Umatilla Junct
ion to 1,01.1 at Pendleton, and; :i,-118
feet at Baker City, Oregon; and from
o.u icci at Ainswortli tp bos feet at
Palotiso .lunclion, 1,1)08 feetat Spraguo
and 2,fi3(i feet at Moscow, Washington.
Tho average elevation of tho region
lying south of tho Snako river and
north of tho Hluo mountains is l.IlOO
feet.
t Tho principal characteristics of
theso regionu are tho deficient amount
of rain-fall, especially as compared
with tho distiictn lying lo tho west of
the Cascade range of mountains, tho
deficiency averaging somewhat greater
than one-half, and tho prevalence of a
dry poriod of from thrco to five months
each year, varying in different locali
ties, from April, to September, princi
pally occurring between May 1 and
Septoinbor .10.
While this teason is never absolutely
rainless, still in many parts it is almost
totally dry; only, rarely do showers,
insignificant in their ell'ect upon tho
growth of the plant, fall, while in oth
ers occasional light showers fall in the
growing mason, and may bo looked
upon as beneficial to the crop in pro
venting that drying up of tho plant in
spots commonly known as 'firing,'
With this comparatively small an
nual raiu-fall, and of this but a small
portion falling in tho growing months
ami i nuia-iti r.ur, NvruiM, vie. Or-
ROWNH 'K A J..YM Pr..prU:ior-. l""'"piry lin-l.
The modes of death's approach are
various, and statistics show conclusive
ly that moro people die from digoase
of tho tlnoat ami lungs than anyather.
It is piobabje that everyone without
exception, receives vast numbers of
tubercle germs into the system ami
where thei-o germs fall upon suitable
soil they start into life and develop, at V ,
first slowlv and is shown hv a BiiKlt ; APnl, Alay and Juno, largo and al-
tickling sensation 'in the throat and if I tlWil unhiding frops aro grown in this
allowed to continue their ravages they I region.
extend to tho lungs producing eon-1 Tho average amount of precipitiv
simmtiiin !iml in tin. IhmiI i.iiiiiihk . . . '
fnrrl Vw ,.H M.iu !u .1,. ,...." . . I " M C.lSCudo mngO Of
if allowed lo proceed will in timo cause l ,I10II'"IS compared with that of
(lentil. At the oiuot you must act ) "io wlioat lands is, for January, four
with promptness fallowing a cold lo go times largor; for February and Marcli
without attention is ) dangerous and I fivo timua ,ar or. w v f , M
mav kite vou vour lifo. Am whim mi . ' 1 ' 'v'
you feel that something is wrong with
your throat, lungs or nostrils, obtuiu n
bottle of Boschwe'h Uermuii Hyrup. It
will give you Immediate rlief,
TIIKIU HL'KI.Vla.S ISOO.-III.no.
ProUably no ono thing ha emuejl uch a
gonural revival uf trade at Wright, drug
t.tore m their (idiiK uwuy lo their custo
mer of so nwny frt trial boltlu of Dr.
KIiik'm New dU.oiry for Ooiwuniplloii.
Their trad I- i . . 1 1 i normoiu in this very
VuIumLIu art), ! fr...,. 11... (mi l il,t It ..I....... n
: ' count on
u-wipuin, i oilglii,
f oM, lim . ii u. bill- i'xftu and u'l
thr':i .oi'i iin . ib. uu jufukly wirul.
Vou Mia tax it U'lorti buylan y gulling u
irliil ImiiiJv Uw, lwr-.i Enrylioiihi
itarrsiiUd
twice largor; lorJuno, July and Au
gust, about oqual; for September,
throe times larger; for October, twice
larger; for November, fivo times larger;
Farmers ami others in buying farm ! ft",(l ,gr Docoi', tour times larger.
impUmenUi, wagons, eUs., will invaria- ! "aliso of this groat disparity is
hly find it to their udvantwge to li t U bo found in tho pretence of tho
traveling agents al' i. nud buv of well
known and reliable fiim-. Thooo who
puichaso of Flank. Urn.' I itij.lt uu in
Co., of Island City, will l. -ore -jf g. t-
i :. t . . t - t
uug put a inn incy iuy, ami ni.ty
luir dnjling i n-rv tinii'
Tholr pi-n - arc livd tn -m.i ill- im.
Ullll til' lllMit )l.V Oil luli'lr I
for good tit ) m-II .!
Ctiaciule Range, together with the pre
vailing westerly winds, heavily laden
with moisture from (he Paciflo ocean,
much warmer in the autumn, winter
on! spiitig than tho laud upon which
are Impelhd, ami nlwuys of a
hollar liiiHtra(tiru than tlmt of (he
I cleVUtloll to Whillll Ibliv urit tnrr, n
I jik x. ot r i. put th.. jpir Ui oviid Msing naktwaid over lliu mountains
(mat Pi y.-iii fit. i. Tiy it As la lOo well JhiUH'M IU ih't upon,
the loft'Hng.of the temperature con
ic iticnt upon meeting tho,col lor land,
and upon the expaiuion due to tho
elevation, p.oduccs tho condensation,
either as rain or snow, of much of tho
moisture carried by the ocean winds.
Tho average height of tho Cascade
Hango in Washington Territory may
betaken as -l.oOO feet, and in Oregon
as 0,000 feet; neither elovation suffi
cient to so deprive the ocean air of its
moisture as to cause it to descend up
on the plateau cast of tho mountains
as a dessicating wind, but still high
enough, as has been seen, to reduce
ho amount of rain-fall by more than
one-half at Dayton and Spokane Falls,
Washington, anil two-thirds at Lewis
ton, Idaho.
Tho prevailing winds during tho
growing season aro from tho west and
southwest; tho beneficial ell'ect of
those winds, bearing with them tho
moisture from the Pacific ocean, is
better seen and appreciated by con
trast wilh the northeast winds that oc
casionally blow in thesummer months,
which aro so dry and parching that a
very few days of continuous northeast
winds in tho month of Juno has an in
jurious efleet upon tho plant, reducing
tho number of filled kernels in tho
heads of grain, and materially shorten
ing tho crop.
There is a peculiar warm and dry
southwest wind which occasionally
blows during tho winter months in
Oregon and Washington Territory,
known throughout tho northwest as
the Chinook wind; probably so called
because it was found in that section
alono whero tho universal jargon used
by tho Hudson Bay Company's traders
in their communication with tho va
rious tribes of Indians was known as
tho Chinook language
These winds, occurring at irregular
intervals, usually not oftonor than
three days in any month, have a fa
vorable influonee upon tho climate,
moderating the cold winter months,
and molting the snow, so that it is not
unusual for several inches of snow to
disappear in several hours of ono day.
I'he average conditions existing during
tho prevalence of a Chinook wind aro
an air temperature of about -Hi degreds
F., tho wet-bulb thermometer reading
about -10 degrees F., (ho dow-point
about .11 degrees F., and tho relative
amount of humidity in tho air about
fid per cent.; a southwest wind of con
siderable force, averaging in exposed
localities 20 miles per hour, a barom
etric pressure, usually but not invari
ably, slightly abovo tho normal, pre
ceding by about thrco days an abnor
mally high barometric pressure.
These winds rarely last moro than
twenty-four liours and aro entirely
distinct in all their characteristics
from Clio ordimuy southwest winds
which prevail in theso sections. Thoy
seem lo advance eastward hy impuls
ion, and, under favorablo atmospheric
conditions reach into tho mountain
ous regions of Idaho and Montana,
and occasionally into western Dakota,
but under unfavorable conditions,
their advanoo is stopped, and theyloso,
as they reach eastward, their peculiar
dryness and warmth, and in the ver
nacular of tho country it is said, "Tho
Chinook freezes up."
In tho majority of instances when
tho relative humidity is bolow 35 per
cent., tho air then being yory dry and
parching, tho winds aro from Borne
I joint in tho north or the cast at somu
of tho observations of that day, show
ing a cessation of tho regular south
west winds, which blow in many parta
of tho wheat lands with almost the reg
ularity of tho trade-winds.
Except in localities especially fa
voied, whether by elevation or proximi
ty to mountains, there is a marked ab
sence of palpable dow in tho spring and
summer months, a condition which,
even moro than tho deficiency of raiu
fall, adds largely to the determination
of the dry character of theso sections.
Notwithstanding this, thoro Is usually
a very light deposit of dow, BOmalla
to ho imperceptible in itsolf, but whiok
can bo readily detected by its dampen
ing and deadening ofi'cct upon tho dust.
as hcon in tho early part of tho day.
Tho amount is so small as (o have vir
tually no ofi'cct upon tho growing crops,
except perhaps to furnish a slight rt
lief from tho parching heat of the day.
Tho mean temperature of thwe dk-
Iricts is about oOdagres Fahrcnliil,
tho mean monthly twnparalure of Um
winter months being from 5 to 10 (
giccalowttr than that of Om dli4Htt
lying Immediately ujww tho fttjsjg ,
comhhuw oh i;rt re
i