OF GENERAL INTEREST. 



Average Annual Rainfall in the United States. 



Place Inches Place Inches 



Neah Bay, Washington 123 



Sitka, Alaska 83 



Ft. Haskins, Oregon 66 



Mt. Vernon, Alabama 66 



Baton Rouge, Louisiana 60 



Meadow Valley, California . . 57 



Ft. Towson, Oklahoma 57 



Ft. Meyers, Florida 56 



Washington, Arkansas 54 



Huntsville, Alabama 54 



Natchez, Mississippi 53 



New Orleans, Louisiana 51 



Savannah, Georgia 48 



Springdale, Kentucky 48 



Fortress Monroe, Virginia . . 47 



Memphis, Tennessee 45 



Newark, New Jersey 44 



Boston, Massachusetts 44 



Brunswick, Maine 44 



Cincinnati, Ohio 44 



New Haven, Connecticut 44 



Philadelphia, Pennsylvania . . 44 



New York City, N. Y 43 



Charleston, South Carolina . . 43 



Gaston, North Carolina 43 



Richmond, Indiana 43 



Marietta, Ohio 43 



St. Louis, Missouri 43 



Muscatine, Iowa 42 



Baltimore, Maryland 41 



New Bedford, Massachusetts 41 



Providence, Rhode Island . . 41 



Ft. Smith, Arkansas 40 



Hanover, New Hampshire . . 40 



Ft. Vancouver 38 



Cleveland, Ohio 37 



Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ... 37 



Washington, D. C 37 



White Sulphur Springs, Va.. 37 



Ft. Gibson, Oklahoma 36 



Key West, Florida 36 



Peoria, Illinois 35 



Burlington, Vermont 34 



Buffalo, New York 33 



Ft. Brown, Texas 33 



Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas . . 31 



Detroit, Michigan 30 



Milwaukee, Wisconsin 30 



Penn Yan, New York 28 



Ft. Kearney 25 



Ft. SneUing, Minnesota 25 



Salt Lake City, Utah 23 



Mackinac, Michigan 23 



San Francisco, California ... 21 



Dallas, Oregon 21 



Sacramento, California 21 



Ft. Massachusetts, Colorado. 17 



Ft. Marcy, New Mexico .... 16 



Ft. Randall, Dakota 16 



Ft. Defiance, Arizona 14 



Ft. Craig, New Mexico 11 



San Diego, California . . . 

 Ft. Colville, Washington 



Ft. Bliss, Texas 



Ft. Bridger, Utah 



Ft. Garland, Colorado . . . 



Amount of Barbed Wire Required for Fences. 



Estimated number of pounds of Barbed Wire 

 required to fence space for distances mentioned, with 

 one, two or three lines of wire, based upon each pound 

 of wire, measuring one rod (16>1> feet). 



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