Show ECLIPSE ON TUESDAY the astronomical event that opens the new year nest tuesday the first total eclipse of the sun that has been visible in this part of the world fur many years wilt take place and will bo nearly complete here just nearly enough to be provoking for with ever so slender a rim of the sun protruding from tha black disc the magnificent corona effect will be invisible to us the slender thread of light on the south limb dispelling all other illuminations of whatever nature still it will be a gorgeous spectacle if that is a proper terns to use in connection with the darkening of the source of light and heat and the consequent sombre shades taking the place the eclipse will besin in this city at fifteen minutes past una solar time or twenty seven minutes later standard time irwill first be noticeable through shaded glass or some other aemi opaque assistant as a notch in the western edge of the suns disc caused by the apparent advancement of the moun to its place between us and the luminary thia notch gradually widens aad expands until about half past two when all that we can seo of the centre of our system will be a of dazzling gold just skirting the southwestern cago of what is otherwise a dull and dismal orb this majestic phenomenon like many things in the world beneath it will be too beautiful to last in a few moments aba band of light will begin widening and increase in the preci e ratio fits decrease ds crease and in three minutes mort ahan two and and a half hours from tho beginning the sun will be whole again and shining as brightly as though he had never lett ua always providing thero are no clouds the obscuration begins at a remote point in the northern pacific ocean on or near one of the islands composing tho great aleutian archipelago the path of totality will be about miles wide at all points it will proceed southerly in a path until just off the pacific coast the southern portion of the track coming to the land about fifty miles north francisco and proceeding prope eding iu a northerly curve of about twelve degrees emerges from that state into nevada about where the cen ard pacific railroad Kail road crosses the line it crosses the about white plains in the west side again at or near battle mountain in the interior and leaves the state very nearly at its northeastern and our northwest corner going through the southern part of idaho and tending rapidly northward through yellowstone tone park wyoming through montana the northwestern corner of dakota and into possessions leaving the earth at or near manitoba A more eccentric path or one more difficult to trace in advance has perhaps neer been recorded those who live within tho region we have herein indicated will enjoy a very rare celestial phenomenon and those south of it and as near as salt lake and at ogden and other intermediate points can see tha spectacle in its entirety by going out on the utah and northern some distance beyond the line exactly how far has not been determined but pocatello would not be too far north though mccammon might be far enough all calculations should be based upon the fact that the belt of territory within which the eclipse will be total is eighty miles in widla and south E and the description herein attempted only sets out the southern limit of it those living in utah who to behold the spectacle for mere gratification or for the purpose of acquiring scientific data will have to ato to the other of the points 0 o have suggested from hereabout on tha date or take the C P and go out into nevada scientific iii tse east will be largely represented in the belt of the territory covered by the total obstruction and a great deal of interest is manifested im it all over the world |