The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, February 5, 1926 Page: 2 of 8
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expense and delays ■ and trouble of
ordering a new part or a new set of
machinery. That ought to be worth
a great many dollars to you if we do
Many firms have found
What was the world doing one hun-
dred years ago? A survey of the coun-
tries to be observed in Europe, in
America and elsewhere in the twelve
months now ending shows the year
1925 was a year of peace, prosperity
and progress throughout the greater
part of the world. The telegraph, tel-
ephone, motor car and wireless were
unknown, yet it was a period of un-
scientific and industrial
There were no around-
the-world aviators in 1825, but an
English ship captain made the first
steam voyage from - England to Aus-
tralia, and was rewarded by his gov-
ernment with a purse of $50,000.
It was in 1825 the national election
in the United States had to be de-
cided by the house of representatives,
since none of the candidates for
president and vice president had re-
ceived a majority of the electoral vote
in the preceding election. The house
declared John Quincy Adams presi-
dent and John C. Calhoun, vice presi-
dent.
The first steam railway for public
traffic was opened in England in 1825
by George Stephenson. It is inter-
esting to note that nearly everyone
prophesied the “iron horse” would be
a failure. On the first trip the train
was accompanied by men on horse-
back.
In 1825 Faraday discovered that
benzine was a constituent of petro-
leum and John Crowther patented his
hydraulic crane. Joseph Clement, an
English genius, built a planing ma-
chine for iron and Sir John Hershel
invented the actinometer for measur-
ing the heating of the power of the
with
Try that on your
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climatic
died and
He
was
was
Extremes of World in
Heat, Cold, Rain and
Aridity Shown; Coast
Fares Favorably.
READ! AND FOREVER
HOLD THY PEACE ON
LOCAL WEATHER
. on
compares
County
! even
! Of course 33 below sounds rather
i warm after a rise of 45 degrees from
has
The
That’s
on record at
in July, 1917,
temperature was
BY WM. A. BLACK.
The Dallas Railway Company
asked for a lc raise in carfare,
city officials have refused it.
that. Managers of utilities are ex-
pected to earn money for their stock-
holders. City officials are expected to
look after the interests of the public.
These two forces must find a com-
mon ground on which to stand or else
there is trouble. The users of a utility
should pay for its operation, mainte-
nance, proper extensions and reason-
able return on capital invested,
perform a necessary
and must be treated fairly,
agreed on that proposition.
They
public service
All are
of 76 degrees below zero.
At Allakaket the lowest recorded
De-
Febru-
alcohol to prevent freezing, have been |
carried into the arcitc and antarctic 90.4 degrees below zero and a January
regions.
There may be regions on the earth’s , below zero,
surface where it never rains; man
(Editor’s Note—This is the second
of a series of interesting Sunday ar- j freezes in the summer months.
ticles written on Galveston climate coldest of these places is Tanana, in Assam, with its nearly 500 inches of
and how it compares with other the Yukon River Valley, with a record . rainfall annually.
points.)
GALVESTON EXTREMES.
Compare them with those below and by months is: November, —6D
be thankful. I cember, -—69; January, —70;
Coldest Day—Feb. 12, 1899.....7 ' 1_
Hottest Day—Aug. 25, 1921 99.8 deg.!
warm in summer. At Fort
the temperature has reached 100 de-
1 grees above zero in June.
At Allakaket the average temper-
cold and other conditions we can not ature in December, 1917, was 44.8 de-
grees below zero. "
airtight heater!
There are colder places. One would
be led to believe that in Werkhoy-
ansk, in Siberia, it is considerably
colder at times. If the temperature
there were down to sixty or seventy
below zero and a cold wave arrived
the Werkhoyanskians would sit up and
take notice, probably bringing in a
couple of extra sticks of stove wood.
They claim a low temperature of
be positive. As the climate of a place
verges on any of the world’s extremes
that places becomes uninhabitable. I
Climatic records become meager and,
■with increasing intensity of heat or
cold, vanish. Here and there man has
established a foothold on the desert;
he has sheltered his thermometer
from the blaze of a tropical sun and
brought back a few records. Ther-
mometers, with their stems filled with
! average temperature of 63.5 degrees
In short, the whole
month averaged slightly lower than
the lowest ever recorded in North-
eastern Montana, the cold spot of
Prof. Henry’s United States chart.
This was in January, 1885, at Werk-
hoyansk. In that same year it fell
to 84.3 in February, to 7.4 in March,
and to 78.2 in December. In Deeem-
7.5 deg. ary, —70; March, —68.
At these stations in the Yukon
Wettest Year—1900—Rainfall78.39 ins. River Valley it sometimes gets quite
Dryest Year—1917—Rainfall21.43 ins. warm in summer. At Fort Yukon
BY I. R. TANNEHILL,
Meteorologist, Weather Bureau.
Of the world’s extremes of heat and
This place is the
wild and almost inaccessible summil
of Mount Waialeale, in the Hawaiian
Islands, with an altitude of 5075 feet.
The weather bureau and geological
survey have installed a huge gauge
in this remote spot with the idea of
measuring the rainfall once a year.
There is reason to believe the rain-
fall there may exceed that at Cherra-
punji.
The United States geological sur-
vey installed a gauge at Mount
Waialeale in 1911. This gauge had
a capacity of 300 inches of rainfall.
It was too small to hold a year’s rain-
fall. On three occasions it was found
overflowing. The new gauge has a
capacity of 900 inches.
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RIO GRANDE VALLEY LANDS
Texas investors buying in the Valley.
Get list of special bargains on cotton
farms and suburban citrus orchards.
Write S. G. Hutchinson, Room 6, Rich
Bldg., McAllen, Texas.
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or Industry
Palmer says that Greenland ranch
has saved the life of many a lost trav-
eler or prospector who has staggered
within its borders with parched throat
and speechless, swollen tongue.
Montana Coldest in United States.
According to Henry’s Climatology,
the coldest place in the United States
is in Northeastern Montana. He cites
a record of 63 degrees below zero at
Poplar, in Valley County, Mont.
The weather bureau has a clima-
tological service in Alaska, and at
many of these reporting stations the
temperature has been more than 70
degrees below zero. At Allakaket, in
the Koyukuk River Valley, the tem-
perature has been below zero every
month in the year except June, July
and August. There have been hard : ------------- ------„
The considerably wetter than Cherrapunji,
It is claimed that at
Sefttle“6mn of Nor’th Africa
'twenty-five miles south of Trip-
reading of 136.4 degrees was
from a tested and properly
sheltered theremometer.
The hotest month
Greenland ranch was
when the average tc_
10Dr Andrew Palmer, who described
conditions at the weather bureau s
co-operative station there, stated that
O A Denton, foreman of the ranch,
who remained the longest (about bight
years) and took the readings for the
weather bureau, was a genius(in pro-
viding a semblance of comfort. I
summer he made his bed in front of
u "evolving fan, after wetting his
blanker sprinkling the floor with
water. Tnv c,in was driven by an
overshot water
Perhaps the natives would
leave the tent flaps open and run
around in their shirt-sleeves, and may
be not. At any rate it is difficult
to realize a feeling of relief when the
temperature is only down to 33 below.
According to all accounts, it is not
quite so cold in the neighborhood of
the north pole.
Texas Holds Record.
Strangely enough, Taylor, Texas,
claims the world’s record for a day’s
fall of rain. In 24 consecutive hours,
on September 9 to 10, 1921, it rained
23.11 inches at that place. Several
farmers in the vicinity of Taylor bad
barrels for hauling water in drouthy
weather, and prior to this rain the
weather was dry and the barrels had
been used for hauling water. The b ir-
rels were thirty-six inches high.
Several of these gentlemen stated that
the barrels overflowed in the neavy
rain and that not more than two
inches of water was in any of them
prior to the downpour. Therefore,
more than thirty inches of rain must
have fallen in about fifteen hours.
The wettest spot in the United
States is in Western Oregon and
Western Washington, where the an-
nual measurement of rain and melted
snow averages over 100 inches. At
Glenora in Western Oregon the aver-
age annual fall in seventeen years rec-
ord was 132,81 inches, and the great-
est 167.29 inches.
Southeastern Alaska is wetter. At
Jumbo Mine a three-year record gave
an average of 195.46 inches, and the
greatest 227.60 inches of rain and
melted snow in 1917. In that area the
average number of days in a year with
rain or snow runs from 220 to over
240. In this area October averages
about twenty-five days with rain or
snow, and one station has had an av-
erage for eleven years of twenty-sev-
en days with rain or snow in October.
There are places in India where an
annual fall of only 225 inches would
be a comparatively dry year.
The world’s wettest spot is at Cher-
________, _______ . The annual
rainfall there is said to be nearly 500
inches. It is stated that in 1860, 699.7
inches fell at this station and in 1861
more than 905 inches, or about seven-
ty-five and a half feet. In August,
1841, 264 inches or twenty-two feet
An urgent meeting of the member-
ship committee of the Fidelis class of
the First Baptist Sunday School was
a decoy used to make sure the ap-
pearance of Mrs. Wm. Sansing. Jjgn-
her recent marria£%n^wer. The class
gum, atoftrUthirty at the home of Mrs.
E. E^Scott. The bride arrived about
five and just as she was intent upon
presenting some plans for enlarge-
ment to the president, Miss Emily
Allen, the whole class rushed in to
wish her a happy wedded life.
Little Turner English, dressed in
overalls and pushing a miniatare
wheelbarrow upon which was a rice
sack, came in, announcing that he had
brought some seed rice for Mrs. San-
sing. The rice proved to be many
lovely and useful gifts, including linen,
silver and glassware. Chocolate and
wafers were served to eighteen mem-
bers of the class, and to Mrs. Wm.
Cash, Mrs. E. E. Scott, Miss Marie and
little Turner English.
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FOR SALE
Cotton seed, improved half and half.
$1.00 per bushel f. o. b. Collegeport.
29-30d-29tf-w F. L. JENKINS.
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The first state gasoline tax
passed in Oregon in 1919.
There is
man from
passed, on, teeth chattering, to the
lower place. When they learned he
was from, Arizona, they. rushed him
to the hottest furnace. After a half
hour in the heat he requested one
of the imps to close the furnace door;
he felt a draft on his back. In de-
spair, the devil presented him with a
coal bucket and match and asked him
to go off somewhere and start a hell
of his own.
For a rain story, there was a Lou-
isiana man who vouched for the fol-
lowing: In his yard lay a barrel with
the head gone and entirely open at
one end.
I hold no brief for the utilities but
what to draw a parallel between our
attitude towards them and our atti-
tude toward land owners. Railroads
and utilities have long been favorite
subjects for taxation. Our railroads
pay more than 5 per cent of their
gross operating incomes for taxation.
The utilities of Texas contribute to
public revenues from 5 per cent to 20
per cent of their total operating in-
come.
there was precipitation to the amount
of thirty inches in every twenty-four
hours. On June 4, 1876, 40.60 inches
fell in twenty-four hours.
General A. W. Greely in “American
Weather” said the smallest rainfalls
in the world occur in Southeastern
California and Western Arizona, in
and near the valley of the lower Colo-
rado and in the section known as
the Mohave Desert. He cited stations
with less than three inches annually
and particularly two in San Diego
County with less than two inches av-
erage annual rainfall. He remarked
that statements were frequently made
that rain never fell in those localities,
but that there was no year atu^y
station where a mea^i’’01'1
ba_du5uc W&een years later, McAdie,
in his “Climatology of California,”
cited records in San Diego i
that indicate a rainfall there
less than suspected by Greely.
How’s This For Dryness?
The most remarkable of these was
at Ogilby in San Diego County, where
the average rainfall for eleven years,
1890 to 1900, inclusive, was only 1.10
inch. During three consecutive years
in this period there was no measur-
able amount of rainfall. In 1898 there
was only a trace, in 1899 none at all
and in 1900 only a trace. A trace is
an amount less than one one-hun-
dredth of an inch. And in 1897 there
was no rain whatever after January.
Thus there was in reality four years,
lacking one month, without a measur-
able amount of rain.
During that eleven years of record
not a drop of rain was known to fall
at Ogilby in either April or June.
1841, 264 inches or twenty-two feet demands. We
of rain fell and in five successive days by our presence here and
" ter of common honesty we
our own
fore we
tribute.
At Volcano Springs in the same
county the situation was nearly as
bad. The average annual fall for
twelve years was 1.59 inch. In that
twelve years there was not a measur-
able amount of rain in April, May or
June.
At Greenland Ranch, previously
cited as the hottest place in the
world, the annual average rainfall for
years 1911 to 1921, inclusive, was 1.79
ipcli. Not infrequently six consecu-
tive months pass without measurable
rainfall.
Thus the extremes of heat and cold
have run from 90 below zero to 134
degrees above. Extremes of rainfall
vary from over 900 inches in a year
to nothing at all.
There is a place suspected of being
rains;
may eventually settle in such a place
and grow his crops by some species
of irrigation.
In the more favored spots of the
earth climatic records in some cases
extend over centuries. Thermometers
have been in use for over four hun-
dred years. At climatic outposts,' ber, 1885, the highest temperature re-
where the world’s extremes have been ' corded there was 33 below zero,
noted, a few’ years’ record is all we '
possess. !
The facts are almost as strange as the minimum of 78 delow, but even
humorous exaggerations. i that is not sufficient to cause the
From Arizona. | brow to be covered with beads of per-
the story of the wicked ' spiration.
Arizona. He died and J----- i1'~
It lay with the bunghole up.
A storm came up and there wras a
prodigious shower. It rained harder-
in the bunghole than it could escape
at the open end and burst the barrel.
The high wind stories must all bow
to this one: A man in Kansas saw
a high wind that blew the dirt all
away from a prairie dog hole and left
the hole sticking up in the air.
The truth about the world’s ex-
tremes may not parallel these yarns,
but there are some startling facts. In
order that the reader may view the ex-
tremes of Galveston’s weather in their
proper setting, some of these facts
about the world’s climate are present-
ed hereafter. From many sources in
the literature of the weather have
been collected the records of the great-
est snowstorm, the heaviest rainfall,
the most massive hailstones, the high-
est temperature, the coldest weather,
the strongest wind and other data to
compare with extremes in Galveston’s
history.
For Warmth, We Have—
To the man who likes his weather
warm, we could recommend Green-
land Ranch in Death Valley, Cai. Over
forty years ago the Pacific Borax
Company established a ranch there.
It . was at first known as Furnace
Creek Ranch because the air suggest-
ed a blast from a heated furnace. It
is now called Greenland Ranch, be- vwxxuo c
cause irrigation has made possible . rapunji, Assam, India,
about four crops of alfalfa a year, I
which contrasts with the brown des-
ert surrounding.
The extreme high temperature each
summer for eleven years averaged 125
degrees. In July, 1913, a “hot wave”
was experienced. On July 8, 1913, the
highest temperature was 128; at night
it cooled off to 90 and on the 9th rose
to 129. That night it fell to 93 and
on the 10th reached 134. On the four
subsequent days it was not so hot,
the daily high temperatures being 129,
130, 131 and 127.
This temperature of 134 is a world
record so far as official records in
standard shelters are concerned.
The Encyclopedia Britannica (ninth
edition) was responsible for the state-
ment that in the desert of Gobi, in
Mongolia, the temperature reached
167 degrees. This record is not gen-
erally accepted as trustworthy.-
A record exceeding that of Death
Valley is claimed in a recent number
of the Quarterly Journal of the Royal
Meteorological Society, published in
London. It is claimed that at^ the
Italian x A"4r”'^
semi-desert
about
oli, a
taken
These taxes must be paid by
the users of the service or else the
company goes broke. However, if the
people want to tax themselves indi-
rectly in this way that is their busi-
Compare the attitude of the public
towards utilities with its attitude to-
wards the land owner. The success-
ful land speculator is treated as a
benefactor. If his profits are laige
he may command front page head-
lines. A Dallas bank pays $400,000
for a lot that in 1920 sold for $300,000.
It was generally received as glorious
news showing the prosperity of Dal-
is. The papers overlooked the im
oortant item that this valuable lot was
assessed for only $100,000. No com-
nent, no public outcry, no question
raised why this particular lam
iwner had been able to capitalize int>
-ard cash the growing population o
he city.
The president of a $15,000,000 cor
ooration in a discussion of this ques
ion remarked that if his people ha
mt their money in central busines
property instead of the public servic
utilities and had set tight and dom
nothing they would have had $3 noy
o where they have one from then
mterprise, and in addition would have
men saved a world of grief. He spoke
he truth and you know it.
It is time to think straight on these
'■>atter« Thp -and sneculator neefV
our attention above all else. He con-
tributes nothing to the public good.
On the contrary he stands in the way
of every forward movement. He must
be paid first. The working farmer,
the wage earner, the manufactuiei
and merchant are all subjecv to his
demands. We make the land values
- I so as a mat-
_______ ---> should use
funds for public revenues be-
call on any industry to con-
Once we get this proposition
clear to the people both private and
public enterprise will get a fair deal.
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Sunshine and Showers
What the World Was
Doing 100 Years Ago
England repealed
the
laws against trades unions.
Anthracite coal was first
solar rays. Steam navigation of the
Rhine was commenced and in Amer-
ica the completion of the Erie and
Champlain canals was made the occa-
sion for great rejoicings. The con-
struction of the famous tunnel under
the Thames was begun by Brunel.
The liquor question was a public is-
sue then as now, as is evidenced by
the organization in London of the
British and Foreign Temperance So-
ciety.
The year 1825 was one of great
advancement in the condition of the
working classes. Questions of shorter
hours, higher wages and. greater safe-
ty for the working people were
brought to the front for the first time. ! the saddle,
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In 1794 Ogden’s Mare, the famous
hackney, trotted 40 miles in three
hours, carrying a 152-pound load in
, a feat which authorities
combination 1 say no living horse could do today.
Anthracite coal was first used in
dwellings and factories in the United
States. The homeopathic practice of
medicine was introduced in America.
Centenary college was established by
the Methodist Episcopal Church in
Louisiana. The first Sunday news-
paper made its appearance in New
York, but did not long survive. Abra-
ham Lincoln, a youth of 16, was work-
ing a ferry on the Ohio River for $6
a month.
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