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settlers the climate of Wisconsin and Minnesota was 

 remarkably steady, the winters were long and cold, 

 the supply of snow ample and regular, and late 

 frosts in the spring were unusual. Now the inhabit- 

 ants complain of abrupt changes of the temperature 

 in all seasons of the year, and of the irregularity 

 of the snowfall. The Legislature of Wisconsin has 

 already paid attention to these alarming facts, and 

 has taken the preservation of existing forests, and the 

 establishment of artificial ones into earnest considera- 

 tion. By a resolution recently passed, it asks of the 

 National Government the transfer for that purpose 

 of all unsold public lands to the state which are now 

 despoiled of their timber by thievish lumbermen." 



ARIZONA 



BY EMIL ROTHE 



IN THE territory of Arizona an immense number 

 of deserted Indian dwellings carved out of the rocks 

 were recently discovered. The former inhabitants 

 of the same must necessarily have been a sedative 

 people, devoted to agriculture, but the whole district 

 is now nearly a desert, there being no supply of 

 water, and hills as well as plateaus and valleys are 

 dry, stony, and nearly destitute of vegetation. This 

 cannot have been the condition of that district when 

 it was densely populated by hundreds and thousands 

 of Indians. Now the only plausible solution of the 



