Show A YEAR A year without a summer would bo a very disagreeable occurrence to say the least of it yet there has been such a year within the memory of now living and whether history is to repeat itself this year remains to be seen certainly the weather this year all over the united stacee las been unusual and even in utah the sunny land old winter ban eat heavily in the lap of spring and at tho present writing shows no inclination cli nation to vacate his berth and give he vernal season a chance to unfold and spread itself according to long dished custom in regard to the year above mentioned the tol lowing description of it is taken from an article contributed to the reno journal january and february of 1816 were march was cold and stormy vegetation had gotten well along in april when real winter set in sleet and snow fell on seven different days in hay in may there was either frost or snow every night but three the snow was five indies deep for several days in succession in the interior of new york and from ten inches to three feet in vermont end maine july was cold and frosty ice formed as thick as window panes in every one ol 01 the new england states august was still worse ice formed nearly an inch in thickness and killed nearly every green thing in the united states and in europe in the spring of 1817 corn which had been kept over from alio crop of 1815 sold for from 5 to 10 a bushel the buyers purchasing for seed on may 10 1835 snow fell a foot in jamestown va and was piled up in kiugo drifts in most of the northern states of the tremendous falling off of the iron and steel industry in england conveyed in a london dispatch in alie salt lake herald is ead news to cleveland and the free trade democratic crew because at present they are unable to help their english friends by opening up a market in the united states for the products of foreign furnaces forges and foundries last year according to the statement of president richards in an address before the iron and steel institute at its annual meeting on the instant was one of the worst ever known in the iron and steel industries tho total falling off of exports of metals and machinery as compared with 1991 amounted to the markets are now swamped and there is not work for half the steel producing power another speaker was more hopeful lie declared that england was bound to remain first as an iron shipbuilding country in alie world it the democratic administration can carry out its contract with its foreign friends no doubt business will improve while that of the united states will decline alie iron ship building industry along with tho rest jonk P JONES of nevada who was one of the delegates to the monetary conference at brussels last year does not anticipate the repeal of the silver purchase act when Cons resa meets next fall lie bays that if the law is repealed without passing something to take its place tharo will occur one of the biggest packs tills country has ever experienced that to undertake to shorten the supply of money in the face of the financial stringency eliat exists today will surely result in disaster the senator thinks it ia just as well that the international monetary conference has been postponed until november for by that time perhaps the advocates of a single gold standard will have learned bome wisdom the world is being treated to an object lesson in alie present financial troubles which ought to bear good fruit let us bobo bopo so anyway ahr i at y |