Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-09-04 | Page 36 | How Dust Storms Occur at Sea

How DUST STORMS Occur at SEA T was very dusty on the ocean the other day IT This announcement may sound like a vaudeville vaudeville vaudeville vaude vaude- ville joke but it its it's true if it proof in the shape of a carton of dust recently received at the weather bureau in Washington is i. to be accepted The dust was gathered from the decks of The American merchantman Santa Rosalia and sent to Washington in connection with the marine service service service ser ser- ser ser- vice conducted by the bureau The captain of the Santa R Rosalia salfa sent in three successive reports to the weather bureau on its trip from Karatsu Japan to Taku China and thence to Shanghai en route to Port Townsend Town- Town send Accompanying the report was WIl a small envelope envelope en en- full fun of a fine yellowish yellowish gray gray dust gath gathered red up from fron the decks ks where it had fallen A note on the subject explained that the air was so 80 full of the dust that sailing was hazardous hazard hazard- ous owing to impaired visibility This dust storm occurred in latitude 37 deg 25 min N N. longitude deg 50 min E. E a point in the Yellow sea near Port Arthur on the peninsula now called Chosen formerly Corea The results of an investigation as reported in a a. bulletin from the department of agriculture revealed that the same week there had been a violent continental cyclone or dust storm many miles iles to the north in Mongolia on th the border of Siberia Corroboration of the fact that quantities ties of this dust sufficient to impede vessels could cowd Lo Le DO blown as far south as the East China and Yellow Yellow Yellow Yel Yel- low seas was valuable and interesting to scientific scientific scientific workers in the field all over the wo world Id