The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 3, 1934, Page 11

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, JULY 3, 1934. I’s Weather that Causes Drought —But Man Gets Some Blame, Too MAN AND BEAR POSE TOGETHER : Look Down Same Barrel— Dawson Trapper Has | Hair-raising Experience (Dawson News) Here is the most recent of recent | bear stories. This one most real- istically took place only a few day ago. Steve Groshell, an old-time pros- | pector and trapper situated at the mouth of Quartz Creek, is the one who plays the lead in this unusual |bear yarn. It seems that in the| spring of the year our trapper friend catches a large supply of grayling which he pickles in brine for use during the summer months. To keep the salted fish cool, he few | he is | brown be Steve's rifle laid only was expected to arrive any day a few feet away, out of reach, but with a view to installing hydrau- \uhlh' Mr. edged off, the depths of the fish barrel he} was tickled to death by a soft® nosed bullet that traveled only a inches from ri to target. Mr. Groshell states that though ti | took but a few seconds to reach! | the r , he lived his whole life ove: in—and after this wants his bear companions somewhere else than at his fish barrel while in that vicinity. — e VITAL CREEK PLACER OPERATIONS WERE TO BE STARTED IN JUNE I Bruin was absorbed in lic equipment. Lhe prodpects of a fish lunch and a|from California are isfied appetite, the trapper care-|the outright purchase of the prop- picked up the erty, but no steps have been taken | rifle and as the shaggy as it is desired to operate bm\\n hibernator peercd down into!the best interests ‘of local holders, the letter stated. |Lmnonls Son Arrested Several parties interested in First Church of Christ, Scientist JUNEAU. ALASKA ANNOUNCES A N it to stock- - as Disorderly Person; Trying to Start Strike JERSEY CITY, July 3. — Cor- liss Lamont, son of Thomas W. Lamont, partner of J. P. Morgan, was arrested late yesterday after- noon as a disorderly person for picketing a furniture establish- ment in an effort to induce work- {ers to strike. Operations were expected to be- gin by the middle of June on the Vital Creek mining property in which Royal Shepard and Juneau has a large barrel of brine sunk | people are interested, according to its whole length into the ground, word received by H. R. Shepard ‘and, to get the fish out of it he|from his son, Royal who left ior has to lie prone on the ground on | the property some time ago. The crop situation in the United States on June 1 is shown by the shaded areas on the map above. The dark section indicates the eritical area; the lighter shaded section those areas designated as serious. Weather Bureau figures show that droughts are not isolated phenomena, and its experts ho'd that man has made this one worse in its effects by over-cultivation of land and over-grazing, which have reméved a normal grass cover. The lowest rainfall for any previous year on record in the various' States is shown by the heavy numerals; the second lewcst for any previous year by ‘the lighter. the ground and reach into it. On\ this particular day of which we have been informed, Steve, whose hearing isn't as keen as it used to be, was lying on the ground in- specting his fish barrel when he felt something lightly brush along- side of him and upon looking up, The crew of 17 men was husxly at work removing a land slide on the property, which oceurs annu- ally, on June 5th when the letter! was written. The mail was taken' out of Vital Creek to Prince Ru- pert, the nearest city, by pack train that had made the trip in By F. B. COLTON g deficiency of rainfall. (Associated Press Science Wri.er» The American drought, while se-| e Max1“'"e> is only a local one. The | world as a whole is not surrermv' breaking drought worse in its er—‘fi"’m lack of rain, although crops in southern and eastern Europe, fects in many sections than it| southern Russia and Great Britain yould naye heen AD ¥ azs 840, B are suffering fr drought to some its main cause is faifare of mois- | £ Bom ] ture-laden warm air to Tise into| EXtent. the cool upper air where its vapor | ‘Water as usual is evaporating could be condensed and fall as| | under the rays of the sun and be- rain. img “taken up into the air, but it is This is the verdict of weather | falling as rain this year in the pureau experts who have been South and east and over the At- studying droughts, their causes and | lantic. Next year it may rain possible methods of ameliorating| Plentifully again in the present them for many years. | drought regions. There is only one way to make| However, nature gave ample it rain, they explain. That is to|Warning of this drought in many get warm air, with moisture evap-|Of the drier western states, and orated from the earth’s surface, | the weather bureau has collected up to heights where the wmpcra_;evidenc that there are cycles of ture is cooler. When this moist, | Wet and dry years in many parts warm air is cooled, it can hold less ©Of the United States, although of moisture, and so the excess turns VAIYing lengths and not predict- from vapor into water, and falls able. as rain. { Stcady Decrease n Rainfall A drought represents a failure! In many of the northwestern on the part of nature to perform! States there has been a fairly WASHINGTON, July has made the present record-| { L3 steady decrease in average annual rainfall for 25 years. Before that time rainfall had been increasing for at least 15 years until 1908 when the trend was reversed. Min- nesota, for example, had nearly 30| per cent less rain in the 10 years ending in 1933 than in the decade |4 ending in 1908. This decline of| rainfall centered in Minnesota but| covered the northern plains to the west, especially the Dakotas, and extended east to the western lake region. All the drought states have | had deficient rainfall for at least two or three years. e, TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN My wife, Maude Leonard, having left my bed 'and board on a speei- | fied date and this is to serve no- tice that I will not he responsible for any debts contracted by her in my name on and after June 29, 1934, 1 —adv. H. J. LEONARD. - Shop in .uneau this process over a greater or less- S A B er area. ‘The great air masses which control weather may become stagnant, with the result that the normal process of moist warm air masses from the south meeting cold air masses from the north and riding up over them with re-! sulting condensation and rainfall, is interrupted. Excessive heat also may warm up the northern air so much that' it does not cool the southern moist air sufficiently to produce much rain. Grass Cover Factor But although these whims of nature are beyond the control of anything man may do, his farming and grazing activities in large areas have made this drought more devastating than the same drought would have been in the nineties, the scientists say. ‘This is because cultivation and over-grazing have removed the mnormal cover of grass or trees. As a result the soil, when dried by drought, is now exposed to the ravages of wind storms; seeds are blown out of the ground, or smoth- ered under blown soil, tons of good top soil are blown away and land made worthless. With a grass cover, this could not happen. U. S. 'Drought Local There is no evidence that the world is “drying up,” says the weather bureau. Droughts are a fairly normal occurrence, for there is one somewhere in the United States almost every year. This LSO Ry s Grand Parade » Field Sports Celebrate the Fourth Hear the Eagle Scream | in Douglas SPORTS AND FUN FOR YOUNG AND OLD Hose Race at 9:30 A. M. Patriotic Exercises 10:30 A. M. BASEBALL GAME—EIks vs. Moose, 11 A. M. CELEBRATE THE FOURTH IN DQUGLAS EVERYBODY INVITED \ 10:00 A. M. 2:30 P. M. country experienced severe droughts ' in 1854, 1856, 1857, 1860, 1863-64, 1870, 1881, 1893-95, 1901, 1911, 1916, | 1924 and 1930. However, the pres- ent one 'is the most serious in weather bureau records”from the » standpoint' of area affected and U. 8. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Public Roads, June 28,/ 1934. Sealed bids will be received at the office' of the Bureau of Public Roads, 419' Federal & Territorial Building, ‘Juneau, Alaska, until 9 o'clock a.m. on July 18, 1834, for 1.807 miles of grading of the Doug- | las Highway, Douglas-Bridge Bec-; tion, adjacent to the Tongass Na- tional Forest, First Judicial Divt-i sion, Territory of Alaska, involving 14.5 acres clearing, 10.0 acres grub- bing, 22,600 cubic yards uncla&sifled{ excavation, 700 cubic yards struc- | ture excavation, 410 cubic yards classes A, B and D concrete, 45,350 pounds reinforeing steel, 1,458 lineal | feet corrugated metal pipe, 254,000 | pounds structural steel. The atten- | tion of the bidder is directed to| the special provisions covering cer-'! tificate of compliance with codes of | * fair competition, subletting and u-‘ signing the contract, ninimum wage ' rates and alternate bid to be sub-' mitted in case he may desire to, offer any foreign articles, mnerials or supplies. Where plans and spocl- ficatlons are requested, a deposit of $10.00 will be required to insure their return within 30 days after opening of bids. Checks shall be made payable .to the Bureau of Public Roads, Janeau, Alaska. Plans | and specifications may be examin- | 7 ed at the Bureau of Public Roads, Federal & Territorial Bldg., Juneau, Alaska, and' Forest Service, Com-; mercial Bldg, Ketchikan, Alaska.| Bid blanks may be bbtained at the | office ‘of the Bureau of :Public Roads, Roam 419 Federal & Terri- torial Bldg., Juneau, Alaska. M. D. ‘Williams, - Distriet Engineer. ¥ MAKE I BY PATRON { TELEPHONE 478 FOURTH A COMPLETE SUCCESS FAMILY LIQUOR DEPARTMENT CAUfORNIA GROCERY Steve saw also looking down into with supplies. | the barrel what was a most real!yi M. A. Paulson, prominent en- alive and fish-hungry monstrous gineer from Spokane, Washington, UNITED FOOD CO. 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