Show the snow melting malting chinook in the northwestern states a becu ilaray warm dry wind called the chinook which has a wonderful power 0 of eating eat tug up snow occasionally prevails and a remarkable visitation of 0 this wind occurred in oregon and washington lost last december professor Pro feasor ward writing in science calls attention to the close resemblance between the chinook winds of the cascade I 1 and rocky hocky mountain regions and the celebrated foehn winds of 0 the alps both blow down from the mountain ranges and both produce effects in tho he sudden liquefaction of 0 snow that are almost marvelous there la Is no mystery about them although they require particular conditions ot of atmospheric beric pressure combined with certain effects arising from the position ot of the mountains with respect to the isothermal iture lines or lines of tempee temperature |