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Show CLIMATIC CHANGES. Tho Past Seasons as Compared with th9 Present. Every careful observer of passing events, who has been accustomed tc tho climate of thUnterior portion oJ our continent, and tothat of California, Califor-nia, ainco 1S50, must have noticed how rapid and manifest are its changes, chan-ges, and what great improvements are made each successive year. In the early settlement of California, as well as of all this Great American Desert Des-ert it is called, there were but two seaiuiis, the rainy and the dry. From about the first of November until the middle of April in each year, all the rain of the entire season fell, and after af-ter the first of May down to November Novem-ber again, the days were clear and the nights cool, but with tho exception excep-tion of here and there a gentle sprinkle, sprin-kle, there was no irrigation from the heavens. As the sclUcuiffut of the country has gone on, as the iron bands havo been laid down, mile by mile, across the continent, and telegraph wires stretched in grand networks, the ELECTRIC CCRREKTS HAVE CHANGED, And Summer after Summer cloud have gathered later, and heavy showers, with sublime thunderstorms, thunder-storms, havo been almost as common here as in Xew England or the great I northwest. In the moath of May, 1S73, rain fell every day, and this year at brief intervals during the entire en-tire months of June and July. .While the East has been parched and dried up, all this region, including Utah, Ne ada and California, has been thoroughly drenched by awoeping and heavy rains. Our mountain streams, bo far this year, have scarcely scarce-ly been needed for irrigation, as Nature hath sent her gentle rain to bless the e.artb, to increase our crops and make glad the heart of the husbandman. hus-bandman. Heavy rains now are coiimou in California, and the miner can s tpply his hydrant, the miller, his flumes, the smelter his tanks, and the farmer his plantation from the i Heavens alone. Hitherto, at this :season of the year, these mountains were golden in ther covering from j want of rain; clouds of dust covered ! the traveler, and everything was I shrunken and dried up by the sun. Now look at our valley, as green and beautiful as the Connecticut or the Genesee. Cast your eyes over these mountains, as bright and green as the emerald; while the fields of whet, and corn and grass "clap their hands with joy." Where a few years ago vegetation refused TO SPRING FORTH AND GROW Because there was no moisture in the soil, there are how thrifty farms and pleasant, fruitful gardens; and it is not an improbable expectation, to see, within a few years, the great American Deseret one of the principal agricultural agricul-tural regions aud grazing grounds of America; to aee these hills covered With flocks and herds, these valleys made fat with corn, while our mountains moun-tains will give up their vast stores of silver, iron, lead and gold. Are you surprised at this wondrous won-drous change? Know ye not that this is a world of compensations? It ia a law of Nature to euuply demand. This Territory has been made the rendezvous of a horde of despoiling carpet-baggers, whose sole occupation it is to absorb the people's sustenance, and Nature has c.iuscd thejc beneficial benefi-cial climatic changes, has sent us these rains, to enlarge the crops and increase tho supplies for them lo feed upon. |