Rainfall

The effect of a winter which bnngs a heavy snowtall in the Rocky Miuiiit ains is always followed by a summer that hrings an abundance of rain to the Missouri Valley. This doesn't rest upon giiesswork, like llic predietions vf almanac-makers, nor upon the supposed inttnence of eertain planets, like the foreeasW of Tice and Vennor, but is based upon the simple scientilic proposition, which the experience of many years has proved to be correct, that the melting of snow In the Rocky Mountains constitutes the principal souree of the rainfall in all this portion of the continent. The snow inelting in the ïnountains rises in the fonn of' vapor, and in this forinis borne eastward uut il il comes in contact with a waimer burrent, when it s pirecipitatetl in the form of rain. Observations teken at this polnt l'or twenty consecutive ycars show that this rule h;is ni'vcr faüed a winter of heavy snowfall in the mountains is followed by an aimndant rainfall in this vicinity the next suimucr, and when there is but little show in the iiioiintiiins there is but little rain heve the föllöwing smnmer. All aooonnts agree that the tall of snow ia the ïnountains tliis winter is heavy, and therefore, according to this rute, we mav lonk lor an abundant rainfall next summer.