Show THE RAINS EAINS ao 0 o far as we recollect tile the rain min ghorm ar orm bf yesterday was I 1 in these valleys in august ve ye do not say aay that there never was sueh such a storm hereabout in this tills month but we cannot recall one to tor our mind within our recollection it was exceedingly heavy a portion of tile the time the tilo water in places literally pouring down in torrents tearing up the roads arul and fillin filling 9 up the tile irrigating ditches so far aa as the country was visited by the torm tile the rain undoubtedly did much good but very probably considerable harm to standing crops and perhaps to some that were gathered the soil is well soaked staked and except on very dry ground will not need irrigating again for some crops and hardly for any within one to tb three weeks which will be a great saving of irrin irrigation tion labor and further the b un rain min wb which ich ieh has fallen lias has watered the soil much moret more 0 thoral thoroughly hughly than it would have i beerd beeri do dono done rio llo by irrigation and much more extensively the tile pasture grass in the fields and on the ranges will be greatly improved althou although gli possibly some portions of the tile liay ilay lay crop may he b e more or less leas injured by the fierceness of the storm altogether the good will undoubtedly overbalance the harm in regard to the comparative frequency ot of rain in the summer time of lter iter years many reasons are supposed and projected one is that the salt lake is the cause of tile tilo increased prevalence of rain this tills can hardly because be the lake has alwa always s existed existed when tile tiie land wal wai was parched and summers more more arid and now when the land is I 1 irrigated r 1 and the tile climate in in summer is less arid than formerly other persons suggest the pre presence 3 of the railroad as the exciting cause of increased summer rain on this point a correspondent in a late new york paper says fth ilk la in view of tho the wonderful climatic changes now going goin g on along the lines of the great railways crossing rhe tho plains it is impossible to imagine a probable limit to th the tho vast area which may here liere within a few years be deemed among the tha best portions ot of our country for the purposes of agriculture the secret of this transformation from a desert to a fertile plain Is contained in live words the railroad has brought rain no element clement was wanting in the earth itself nor leor was aught in excess to enforce sterility but everywhere there was drought in the hot dust nothing grew but stunted hardy grass and age brush all seemed desolation and ut tr hopelessness wherever irrigation was tried lt success exceeded the most sanguine expectations in developing an almost miraculous productiveness in the soil no enthusiast dared however to dream of the possibility ol 01 artificial irrigation over all this enormous expanse rivers entering here would have been drunk up by the thirsts thirsty earth and sky long iong ere they could have its centre yet ret mans work nas nag irrigated this land by an unexpected means the railroad has brought rafn rain to the electrical influence of these long lines ot of iron between east and west some attribute the change by others it is affirmed that the effect has been produced by merely the displacement of the atmosphere caused by the numerous heavy and swiftly rushing trains be the cause what it ir may mayg the fact tact remains the same that year by year since the union pa laae lalo railroad has been operated through the rainfall has steadily increased until this season it has become I 1 so far at least as the road is con eon concerned cernech a decided nuisance who of the projectors of tais road ever imagined that a time would come when its trains would be delayed in tho iho middle of the plains by the tho overl overt overblow low ot of water from violent rain storms storing covering the track and in places even sweeping it away such haar however no wever been the fact tact this spring trains have been as mue much h as twelve and even fifteen hours behind ti time m 0 from this cause alone the result of t this is rainfall rain tall fall is already all ali ready to bo be seen in the settlement of the country along the route whoa a first the union pacific road was open t TO a travel tr avelone one would ride all the long day through without seeing a human habitation except at the miserable stations where trains were ue tracked coal taken on or water drawn from wells of great depth now as far tar west as cheyenne houses a are re scattered ed all along fields are seen ina in a 1 flour I our su tate tato of or ouva cuva cultivation t on an and d nume numerous rous he hordy hordi of cattle eattle pro prove provo how lve ire well weli the gra braziers ftc f d the country adapted to their wants an ts without saying that the m railroad lias has exercised no jio influence in this mitter we may ma i y p present resent facts to show that that the tile eire oine ets were here before the advent of this suppo supposed sed c cluse cause may has lias been the principal c wet month of late years july lias hais had an occasional slight thunder showery august neof not or with great rarity so far as we ra re bollen coi col leol leot wet mays were known years before tile railroad was constructed ted and one season a fifteen I 1 inch n ell cli snowstorm snow storm fell in that month the railroad did not bring that snowie pr did it i t bring the illo other m rainy iny summer summers 9 vve ive we speak of any more than it brought the tile drouthey drout drou thy liy liot hot dusty summer of 1871 our own opinion is that tile the increased moisture of the summers of late years is due firstly to the iland lland of providence denee dence and secondly to the cultivation of df tilo the land the tile building of cities and towns the planting of trees shrubs and various crops the tiie distribution of the creek waters over the cultivated hay lay and pasture lands the tile increased moisture of the atmosphere by the tilo evaporation po ration from sueh such irrigated lands and from orom rom the trees shrubs and vegetables planted these are tile tiie principal ca causes uses in in our opinion of the tile increased prevalence of min rain in summer time in this and adjacent valleys for it is seasonable lea ica enough that a stirred and irrigated soil and thousands of acres of trees and shrubs and various kinds hinds of cultivated vegetable crops should S give lve ive into the atmosphere much more moisture than a hard dry barren bare bleak and parched prairie could possibly do arld and when the atmosphere was duffil sufficiently charged with moisture in a proper condition it might reasonably be expected that tile tiie same moisture would be returned to tile the earth in tile shape of showers |