Show THE SEASON The oldest inhabitant who comes to the front and declares that the winter and spring of 50 or 60 or any other year bore any resemblance resem-blance to the past winter and present pres-ent spring will be promptly and certainly shot There never have been any such winters and springs in Salt Lake as the last and the present That is to say never since the time within the memory or history of man But hold Perhaps this assertion embraces too much is too farreach ing It may be that in that pre glacial period when Judge McBride broiled and ate his frugal meal of venison on the site of the Temple Block and was lulled to repose by the soothing sonorous yelp of the ferocious coyote there were similar seasons If so there will be a proportionate pro-portionate retraction of the above assertion The times and seasons are all out of joint The Edmunds bill is directly di-rectly chargeable with the dislocation dislo-cation of the one whether comets Mother Shipton the Jeannette expedition ex-pedition or other thing or circumstance circum-stance is responsible for the other Ordinarily spring is here in all her glory before the middle of April early March frequently sees shooting shoot-ing buds and spring blossoms and in May there is burning summer Three months of solid winter including the coldest cold-est January and February noted in the signal service records have been followed by two months or ordinary Utah winter weather with its cold rains snow frosts mud and other disagreeables There is grumbling on all sides and all manner of complaints and fault findings are made to whom or what nobody knows But if people would reflect a moment they would under stand that the weather we have been enjoying or sufferingas the case may be is the very best that could be provided for the season assuming that the remainder of the year will be correct and regular in its meteorological meteor-ological deportment Early springs almost invariably mean disaster to grain garden and orchard Warm weather in February and March is next to certain destruction of peaches and stone fruits as the swollen tender buds are caught by late frosts Great as is the loss of the fruit crop it does V not compare com-pare with the loss incurred through a light yield of grain and vegetables and this latter is the assured consequence of the too early coming of summer heat While seeding has been de aved somewhat this Year the deep snows in the mountains are reamed re-amed making certain a larger and longer continued supply of water for the late summers irrigation The crop outlook for the year is more promising than ever before and all because of this abominably horrid weather that interferes so heartlessly with the comfort of the corner loafer and that other product of America the tramp Those of us who are hurling male dictions dire and dreadful on the innocent head of the weather clerk and denouncing the elements as reckless if not vicious should reflect re-flect a moment and then conclude that nature seems bent on befriending befriend-ing Utah in 1882 whatever adverse course the politicians and alleged statesmen may pursue pur-sue Bounteous crops are glorious glo-rious things to counteract the evil effects from Edmunds laws wellfilled bins will show a bad commission in a mellower light Where there is plenty there will be prosperity and more than likely peace also We confidently expect LSS2 to eclipse all predecessors in the matter of large crops and shall give the bad weather credit for o the larger share of the blessing I 2 f t 21 7 |