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Show RAIN MAKING PRACTICAL Government Refuses to Fire the 141 Guns at Puget Sound Washington. Aug. 30. Chief Moore ol the weather bureau is .more than skeptic of the power of explosives to cause rain. Declaring efforts to produce pro-duce rain by bombarding the skies would encourage charlatans and would be denounced by all eminent physicists and scientists. Mr. Moore has submitted an opinion to Adjutant General Alnsworth regarding the forest for-est lire situation In Idaho and Montana. Mon-tana. He says extensive experiments conducted by the department of agri- culture have conclusively demonstrat- ed that rainfall cannot be created by explosives. Rain Is produrcd only by a marked ! increase in Ihe vapor contents of the air or by a decided lowering of the temperature and man cannot operate on a scale to stimulate these conditions. condi-tions. Major General Leonard Wood's action ac-tion In refusing the request of Senior Sen-ior Piles and Representative Humphreys Hum-phreys of Washington to have the HI guns at Puget Sound fired In the hpe of producing rain, has geen approved j by the President. A dispatch to this effect was received re-ceived from Mr. Tuft by General Wood J vesterdav. I |