Show ik Signal Service lni Lan I believe that before this is read in Og a den not more than a dozen people in the Ing Junction City knew that there is a branch oaUN of the Signal Service in this vicinity Wet We-t UN used to have a station south of the depot the some eight years ago but it was abandoned ago aban-doned for reason your deponent sayet t not Now however there is established 21 on the top of Ogden Peak a little southerly Iu1 south-erly to the cast of this city at an altitude of 9500 feet a heliotropers station for It the taking of various daily observations tb of a meteorological nature John Meade f and Wm Hunt ate in charge of that ele 21 rated source of knowledge They lodge c in a tent and board themselves even the t tent seems to require boarding some es nights when the mercury stops running 1 down for want of breath as it did on the d 2J 2JThe d The Hahren with all its anemometers i hygrometers thermometers barometers s and others meters has been in operation e since May 25th Its returns are made to fu the United States Treasury Department g regularly If my kind readers dont shirk the wear and tear of shoe leather they can go up there and see for themselves 1 Its only a mile as the crow flies |