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where I had intended to make further investigations of this matter; but it 

 is hoped you may nevertheless supplement this idea with your other good 

 arguments in favor of forestry, and use it to some good purpose. 



It would be a pleasure to hear from you, and I will further illustrate my 

 idea if necessary. Mail will reach me at Signal Office, Prescott, Arizona, 

 whither I shall go satisfied with the indorsement of a most generous 

 people. 



Hoping the growing success of the forestry cause, 

 I am faithfully yours, 



W. A. GLASSFORD, Lieutenant Signal Corps, 



Assistant. 

 Joaquin Miller, 



The Oakland Heights, Oakland, California. 



RAINFALL, TEMPERATURE, AND CLEAR DAYS FOR THE SOUTHERN 



STATES AND PACIFIC COAST. 



The tabulated matter in the following tables was taken from the Chief 

 Signal Officer's annual report for the year 1886, and gives the average 

 yearly rainfall, average winter, spring, summer, and autumn temperatures, 

 also the average annual temperature, the highest and lowest temperature, 

 and the average annual number of clear days for the Southern States, 

 Arizona, California, Oregon, and Washington Territory. The States 

 represented in this table are Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, 

 Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, 

 Missouri, and Texas, Arizona, and Washington Territories, and California 

 and Oregon. California stands ahead of all the Southern States in its 

 having more clear days and a higher minimum temperature than any 

 point in the south except Key West, Florida. This table will be found 

 valuable because it represents such a great number of points in all the 

 Southern States except Maryland and Delaware: 



