Show and chikos t i Remark remarkably abla 1 a phenomena of fills ali great lua s ln Il eglon tile tho po pogonip is a nevada phenomenon no menon tion while the 11 chinook belong I 1 to montana the whites first made ali tin acquaintance of tile the po pogonip gnip aboud twenty years year ago when they went t white whit pine county at the time of tin striking of the almost pure silver or treasure hill treasure city on the boak of treasure hill thousands of feet feel above the be level of the sea is the home and tamping ground of the pogonip the po pogonip gnip so feared is a sorl soll of frozen fog that ills fills the air air nt at aimee in winter it often appears on the clearest and brightest M of days coming coining suddenly from no one knows liance in lit an instant the air air is filled with avith floating in 6 needles of ice to breathe nip nil is death to the lungs icings r when it comes people rush to cover the indians dread it as much as the wI lites discovered the pogonip long ago ro pogonip 0 gnip is nn in indian word the very sound of which describes the phenomenon to which it is applied it is tile the same with the bitite word for cold tin the word is oo zoot zoo and is full of shake ind and shiver the pogonip appears to be caused by the sudden freelin freezing in in the air of the hie moisture which collects about tile the summit of high 1 peaks to stand in a 11 valley a mile C or ir two below and look up at the top of a yin in on which pogonip n lias has appeared is a ight i il beautiful and peculiar in all directions the cloudless heaven leavens are a deep calm blue if a color can be said to be calm the top of if the peak is lidden hidden in the poro pogonip C nip which is as brilliant under tinder the light of the sun a I 1 those par parhelia lielia seen about the sun still in in artie artic re regions ions but it is a movin moving shapeless mass of luminosity from this glittering cloud bia bright ht streamers are arc often seen stretching way away from tile mountain peak that look like the wavering and flashing wires that are shot upward by the aurora borealis bor calis these ribbons of flery fiery light stretch away in a direction opposite to that from which the wind is blowing they are evidently shreds and strips an of tile pon pogonip 0 that are arc torn off and wafted wafred away by the t gale ale on the top of the mountain mount till the pogonip is so dense that one can call see sec through it to the distance of only a few yards the air is filled with minute t and slender crystals of ice the these striking 0 together produce a I 1 slight continuous rustling sound breathed into the lungs they prick like needles the phenomenon of the pogonip is to be seen in winter in very m many i y places in nevada about the tops of high mountains also about most of the tall peaks all through the great bisin basin region region while the coming coining if the 11 pogonip pogo is dreaded tile tho advent of the is hearlin hear licar lil tily welcomed the elli chinook nook means mean warm swarin weather it is a phenomenally warm south or southwesterly wind that strikes down into montana idalio idaho and other northern and snowy regions lying east cast of the alic sierra nevada mountains and even into the regions i ons far to the eastward of the rocky mountains it is in a mild way a 1 sort of siroceo sirocco but is without the noxious qualities of tile sirocco that blows from the libyan deserts into italy and sicily it appears appear to be a mixture of the dry heated air of the deserts of arizona and new mexico rising and mingling with the warm but moister breezes movin moving 7 eastward off the pacific ocean somewhere in the upper re regions 0 ions hiigli above the tops top S of all tile mountains these currents of air meet min mingle 0 le and finally descend upon t the lie snowe lad regions of the north just where they aro arc wanted and prayed for before the chinook the snowdrift snowdrifts snow drifts ts melt as before a mast last of lot liot air blown through ca it 1 a I tube and directed against them As if by mamic magic the snowy covering of the ili hills and vall valleys C ys di disappears Sapp earb the atmosphere is i s everywhere warm and balmy so much n moisture ois turo has been taken up ill by tile the air during 0 the process of celtin melting away the snow that the alic bt breezes c azes lie arc 7 soft and sweet as those of spring when old winter howls anil and prowls through the territories of our ii northern 0 i lie neighbors and the whole face of alic country lies buried in snow no wonder v that we see in their newspapers so ninny many appeals to tile the clerk of the ii father eatherl to send then th the 0 6 ble blessed SS cd chi n ook da dave de quille in virginia enterprise |