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Show lil'SflEHIS IDEAL FO TROOPS Plan to Move Men to Southern South-ern Climes Due Erroneous Ideas of Conditions. ripe-: to 1 to The Tribune WASHINGTON, D. C. Oct. 2. Krrone-ous Krrone-ous idc:is uoiit'ernin: winter weather con-diuonfc con-diuonfc in L'taii and Wyoming are rispon- j si hie for the proposed plans to remove regular troops from l-'ort Douglas, Ctah, i and Kort Jlussrll, Wyo., where they are housed in brick or wooden quarters, and send them to I'alo Alto to be Quartered in tents. The senators from t'tah and Wyoming have checked this move men t. but so deeply in-rained in the mind of the general gen-eral staff is the idea that troops cannot be drilled during winter months in Wyoming nnd Utah, that it is only a question ques-tion of time before the plan to depopulate depopu-late Fort I ou-las a nd Fort Russell will be carried into .effect. Several years ago Senator Warren of Wyoming tooi; this matter up with the secretary of war ami submitted a statement state-ment of climatic conditions r.t eight army posts, compiled from official weather reports re-ports made by the United States weather burea u. Senator Warren, after spending thirty-nine thirty-nine winters in whole or in part within three miles of Fort Russell, considered himself well qualified to testify as to the compart ive equability of the climate there. However, he got official figures as to the weather at Cheyenne, Wyo., near Kort D. A. Russell; Washington, IX C, near Kort Myer, V'a.; New York City, near Fort Ha milton, and three or four other forts; Burlington, V t., near Fort Ethan Allen; Chicago, near Kort Sheridan, III. ; Des Moines, la., near Kort Des Moines, la.; St. Paul, Minn., near Kort Knelling, -Minn., and Omaha, near Fort Creek, Neb. There are several cavalry nnd artillery posts among the above. Senator Warren requested the daily reports re-ports of the three months of January, February and March, 19UT, in which snow and wind might be expected to be most in evidence. As for the other months, Senator Warren said: Of course it goes without saying, and cannot be successfully contradicted, contra-dicted, that the late spring, summer and fall weather at Kort Russell and similar localities, is all that the heart could wish, and 1 will go still farther and say that at no place in the world is there a more healthful climate for man and beast, or one more conducive to developing strength, character and endurance. The figures produced by Senator War- ren showed that the total precipitation, depth of water, combined rain and snow, , was but 1.10 inches at Fort Russell, much less than at any other post. The maximum velocity of wind at Fort Russell was less by ten miles an hour than at three of the )osts named, and is greater by ten miles an hour than at four of the posts. Thus the average velocity was higher at four and lower than at three of the posts. ; In the matter of temperature, Kort Russell ranked first because it was the most equable, because of least variation in temperature and, second, the warmest of all the eight posts, with one exception, that of Kort Myer, where the average mean temperature for the three months was GS.C, as compared with Kort Russell's Rus-sell's 34.3. |