Show the old settler 0 on a tho weather dan de do quille the observing ervin correspondent spon dent writing from virginia city nev about tha the unusual cloudy showery and generally damp weather ot of the present year earo bays in the apt T ng ot of 1800 1860 when I 1 first arrived in this region the old settlers all said wo we have no rain here in summer such bach a thing as a thunder D torm has never been known here in sabbina over the crest of the sierras the clouda clouds loaa lose all their electricity idere eaid said 1 I is a thine thing worth wa watching aching it may be that the ponderous dero us thunder cloude clouds dragging along over the tops of the pine forests and bumping against the bin big peaks of 0 the sierra nevada range are deprived of 0 their electricity rang 80 0 1 I watched that summer we bad in this part of the state alone by actual count eleven thunder showers sh owera and a few ot ol them rattling onea ones that fall fill I 1 eaid said to one of the old settlers it oro I 1 1 I doubted what you said last spring when you told me ina there were I 1 no thunder storms on this eide side of the Sie sierras BO so all summer I 1 have kept a close watch and yon have been seen nary one interrupted the 0 S triumphantly 1 I told yon you BO so over here we never have any thunderstorms it never even rains here in bummer summer sore bare 7 queried 1 I sure period I 1 cried the 08 0 S when I 1 eaid said you have the worst wort memory of any man I 1 ever saw w we have had eleven thunder show era this bummer summer the 0 8 thought I 1 was crazy alter after I 1 bad had p pulled U I 1 I 1 e add T my y diary 0 on n him and given d day a y an and date at e for every shower the 0 S eaid said well yon you eee see we bava have BO so much fine clear weather here weeks and months of 0 it that we dont notice these little interruptions if it it thundered any last summer I 1 have forgotten all about it in the fall of 1859 when the discovery of silver caused thousands to flock to this fide side of the mountains the 0 0 S said to the newcomers 0 yes 0 I 1 you ll 11 c can n winter here very comfortably T fort r too ably y in a tent or brush shanty it never anois here to the depth of more than an inch or two you see the sierra nevada mountains extract all the moisture from the clonda clouds as they pus over then that wint winter e r when the newcomer was up to h hia eyes in enow snow the 0 S eaid said it if I 1 know come over the country I 1 it never snowed here before it must be that owing to the rush of settlers the climate is changing you can get almost any kind of evidence you want from the 0 S aek isek and it shall be given |