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when it does occur. I have never seen a lightning rod or a lightning 

 rod agent west of the Rockies. 



The average annual temperature varies considerably in this state> 

 owing to difference in elevation, it being about one degree cooler for 

 -,, each 300 feet above sea level. The coldest temperature 



recorded here in seven years was 19 degrees below zero. 

 1 emperattire ^y^ usually have two or three short periods each winter, 

 from two to five days long, when the temperature goes down to about 

 zero. These cold spells always occur just after a period of snow-fall; 



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but the cold spell itself is always accompanied by clear skies and calm 

 weather. The remainder of the winter season is a mixture of light 

 rain and beautiful sunshiny weather. 



Occasionally in sunnner we have a period of a few days, and some 

 years for a few weeks, of rather warm weather, but the nights are 

 invariably cool. The reni:iinder of the summer the weather is ideal. 

 No climate in the world has more beautiful weather than a good por- 

 tion of the early summer and earlv fall here. 



