58 M. W. Harrington— Weather making. 
with transportation facilities, more or less all the time since the early part 
of May, they having experimented in some eighteen or twenty different 
locations, and in each case we have had more or less rainfall. In nearly 
every instance we can but feel there is something in their claim. We 
have had from one-half to three or three and a half inches falls of rain, 
covering a section of country from twenty-five to ninety miles in length 
and ten to thirty miles wide, all owing to the direction of the wind, and 
in some cases at times when there was no moisture in sight or known 
until they began operations, and then only throughout the section over 
which their own rainfall extended. ‘ 
I presume the operators themselves have kept a record of their work, 
-and results of same, at each of the different points where they have been 
located, and should you desire I will have them make a statement show- 
ing what they themselves feel they have accomplished. We have been 
slow to believe there was anything in this business, but at the same time 
must admit that they are either very fortunate in reaching the different 
points where they have experimented just in time to have rain-storms, or 
they have certainly hit upon the right thing in the way of rain-making. 
The process I do not know, but a humorous railway man, 
personally cognizant of the matter, told me that the operators 
kept themselves carefully secluded in a freight car with a hole 
in the roof, and when occasional glimpses were caught of them 
they seemed to be cooking over a red-hot coal stove. Probably 
the method employed was that of Frank Melbourne, the Aus- 
tralian, who has most reputation in the west, and who has care- 
fully kept his secret. It is proposed by the company in ques- 
tion to continue the experiments in another field and with 
competent experts accompanying, and another railroad com- 
pany is seriously considering the propriety of entering the field. 
CONCLUSIONS. 
Finally, permit me to complete this sketch by some remarks ;_ 
and, to make them as specific as they can be made, permit me 
to put them in the form of questions and answers. The answers 
are my own. 
Question. Will a noise make rain? Answer. No; there is no 
reason in theory or practice to make us think it will. 
Q. Will a concussion make rain? <A. It will probably jostle 
the droplets in a cloud and may bring a few together, which 
may coalesce and become large enough to cause them to fall to 
the ground—a few scattering drops only. 
Q.. Will smoke or dust released in great quantities produce 
