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Show TESTING WEATHER FOR PRACTICAL PURPOSES RENO, Nov., Jan. 2. Professor Church of Nevada university returned yesterday from Mount Rose, the highest peak in the Sierras, where he is iu-stalling iu-stalling a Ferguson meteorograph, one of the few instruments of the kind iu the United States, which records weather conditions automatically. As soon as a few minor details are attended ! to the instrument will bo ready for use. 1 Dr. Church says that tho federal j weather bureau is arranging to have tho Snowfall in the mouut.i'ns Levied aud that a number of meu will soeu be sent I to Lake Tahoe and other po:nts iu tho Sierras- to build tanks to collect snow-so snow-so that accurate measurements may be taken. The government :s doing" this to ascertain the amount of water that can be counted on eaci jvnr to supply tho irrigntiug canals iu the Truckee-(. Truckee-(. 'arson' roclamatiou district. . |