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the number of calms occurring at the time of obscrvation.s. Tlio 

 calculations are made from three daily observations, making 1,095 

 observations during each year, and 1,098 for 1881, and is as follows: 



The following table shows the total number of clear, fair, and 

 cloudy davs; also, the number of days in which rain fell for each 

 year, froni 1878 to 1883: 



The opening of the northern portion of the State to settlement, as 

 evidenced by the extension of the California and Oregon Railroad, 

 and the inquiries concerning lands in that region for various uses, 

 renders the amount of annual rainfall of that division of the State 

 a subject of interest and value to the prospector. We therefore give 

 below, by months and seasons, the amount of rainfall and melted 

 snow which has been precipitated at Weaverville, Trinity County, 

 from July 1, 1871, to December 23, 1883, as reported by George E. 

 Noonan, and furnished by Sergeant Barwick: 



Weaverville is at an altitude of a little over two thousand feet. 



