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Galesbitrr/, III. — Suow 18 inches, drifted, lath to loth, theu Hue 

 ■weather. 



Mount Sterlhirf, III. — Drifting suovz-storm 13th to 15th ; tweuty-one 

 days' sleighing. 



Milwaukee, Wis. — Snow 13th to 15th ; drifts 6 to S feet high. 



Baraboo, M^is. — Mild mouth ; good sleighing so far this winter. 



Minneapolis, j][inn. — Pleasant month ; no severe cold or storms. 



Litchjield, Minn. — Ground nearly bare till all-day sviow of 23d. 



Heiv Cflm, Minn. — Aurora 13th. Pleasant month, good sleighing. 



Guttenberg, Iowa. — Little snow, no stormy winds, no rains, bad wheel- 

 ing all winter. Cisterns dry since November, and creeks remain very 

 low. 



Independence., Iowa. — A mild month and mild winter. 



Roclford, Iowa. — Snow (5 inches) 7th ; rain, sleet, snow, 12th and 

 13th. A beautiful winter, just suow enough for good sleighing. 



Boonesboro, Iowa. — Hail, snow, 12th, icy snow 13th. East of Missis- 

 sip])i a snow blockade, while for five hundred miles west only 2 or 3 

 inches. 



Fontanelle, 2o2c«.— Mist 11th; sleet, snow, 12th ; mist, snow, 19th ; fog, 

 rain, sleet, snow, 29th ; lirst pewees, 24th. 



aSL Louis, Mo. — Hail all day 13th, then rain all day 14th, a little snow 

 15th. liiver closed December 24, opened on 11th instant. 



Hematite, Mo. — Sleet (4^ inches) 13th, then freezing rain all day 14th, 

 icy crust rendering locomotion dangerous; renewed 25th. 



Oregon, Mo. — Snow, sleet, snow, 12th; good sleighing to 20th. 



Faola, Kans. — Si)ring birds and pleasant till the mist, hail, snow, high 

 wind of 12th, then solid winter to 21st. Hard month for stock. 



Laicrence, Kans. — ^lercary 3.5<^ higher on 11th tlian ever known here 

 in January; in 41 hours sunk 72^. Snow-fall 11 inches, G inches more 

 than in any previous January. 



Holton, Kans. — A dry, windy month ; but little snow. 



Manhattan, Kans. — Farmers plowing 10th and 11th, but ground frozen 

 most of month. 



Council Grove, Kans. — Fine, warm to 12^1, wintry to 19th, thawing to 

 24th, then snow; snow gone 29th, suow 3'Jth, beautiful day 31st. 



Camp Douglas, Utah Ter. — Average increase of rain-fall for nine j'ears 

 3.32 inches i)er year. Great Salt Lake has risen in that time 80 inches, 

 yielding one-tenth less salt than twelvx years ago. 



Deer Lodge City, Mont. Ter. — The warmest January known here; 

 average of three years 14.3^ ; this year 30th no ice, suow, or sleighing 

 in the valley. 



Missoula, Mont. Ter. — Plowing between 17th and 25th. 



