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TRANSACTIONS OF THE 



Weather Summary for the Year 1887, Near Fort Jones, Siskiyou 



County. 



Furnished by Isaac Titcomb, Observer. 



Month. 



S 



CD 

 P 



B 



5 s? 



P O 

 bo c£ 



M JO 



£<£ 



C B" 



^ CD 

 CD g_ 



H 



CD 



p 3 



r" ^ 

 S » 



CD e^ 



CD 

 jjj 



r+ ~ c+ P 

 B'CD CD Ji 

 ;/ :/ i 



CO 



p 2 p 



S 5 B 

 p. Q. 



January 



February 



March 



April 



May --- 



June 



July -. 



August 



Suptember 



October 



November 



December ... 



Yearly average 



35.1 

 30.3 

 43.8 

 45.2 

 54.9 

 59.5 

 67.7 

 65.3 

 60.5 

 54.3 

 42.1 

 33.6 



28.5 

 23.1 

 33.5 

 35.4 

 42.2 

 44^9 

 50.9 

 49.6 

 46.0 

 40.6 

 33.9 

 28.2 



41.4 

 37.6 

 56.5 

 56.0 

 68.5 

 75.4 

 85.2 

 80.7 

 75.2 

 67.7 

 50.3 

 38.6 



35.3 

 30.1 

 41.4 

 44.3 

 53.9 

 58.2 

 66.9 

 65.6 

 60.3 

 54.7 

 42.1 

 34.0 



58 

 55 

 67 

 76 

 96 

 96 

 98 

 93 

 87 

 80 

 72 

 46 



16 

 10 

 25 

 26 

 25 

 35 

 39 

 37 

 35 

 30 

 18 

 21 



49.4 



38.1 



61.1 



48.9 



98 



10 



5.18 

 4.98 

 1.07 

 2.63 

 0.94 

 0.36 

 0.37 

 0.18 

 0.36 

 0.09 

 1.75 

 5.88 



23.77 



Snowfall in January was 25 inches; snowfall in February, 66 inches ; snowfall in March, 

 inappreciable; snowfall in April, 5 inches; snowfall in May, 2 inches. Snowfall for the 

 season, 109 inches. Rainfall for the year ending July thirty-first, 25.75 inches. 



Total rainfall and melted snow for season of 1887-88, up to February 1, 1888, 14.81 inches. 



CLIMATE AND RESOURCES OF THE FOOTHILL COUNTIES. 



PLUMAS COUNTY. 



It has less plain land than those counties lying to the south, but it has a 

 great number of splendid valleys admirably adapted to grazing and agri- 

 culture. The mountains are ransacked for auriferous quartz, the woods 

 yield lumber by the million feet, and the foothills are one everlasting 

 orchard. Plumas County differs from the counties lying to the south of it 

 in contour, the surface being more of a rolling character, thus placing a 

 great deal of rich valley land at the disposal of the husbandman. There 

 is virtually no limit to the fertility of the soil in those valleys, composed 

 as it is of the alluvial deposits carried down by the melting snows and the 

 rains of centuries from the overhanging Sierras. Along the foothills almost 



