AGRICULTURE. 



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TABLE V. 



United States Signal Station, Silver Falls, Blanco Canyon, 



County. 



Year. 



Jan. 



Feb. 



Mar. 



April. 



May. 



June. 



July. 



Aug. 



Sept. 



Oct. 



Nov. 



Dec. 



1886 















3.03 

 1.89 



3.31 

 2.37 

 4.29 



1.07 



5.58 

 1.19 



.27 

 1.57 



.34 



3.44 

 2.10 

 1.88 

 2.98 



.03 



.31 



4.68 



1.11 





1887 



1888 



".05 



6 1.25 



.79 



1.07 



1.59 



.12 



.93 

 .40 



1.89 

 4.45 

 1.26 

 4.34 



4.25 

 1.21 



.82 

 2.75 



.98 



.30 

 a. 81 



1889 



1890 



3.57 

 3.84 



1 39 



.05 













a One-half inch of snow, b Five and one-half inches of snow, c Five inches of snow. 



TABLE VI. 



Rainfall at Marienfeld. 



Tear. 



Jan. 



Feb. 



Mar. 



April. 



May. 



June. 



July. 



Aug. 



Sept. 



Oct. 



Nov. 



Dec. 



1883 i 









1.71 

 3.46 

 1.53 



.70 



5.20 

 10.65 



4.89 



.55 



3.10 



.85 



.63 



3.55 



1.61 



2.23 



.65 



8.22 

 1.95 



1.50 

 1 38 



1.50 



1884 .... 

 1885 



i .60 

 . .15 



1.20 

 .50 



.20 

 .60 



.71 

 1.08 



2.25 











TABLE VII. 









Rainfall at Fort Elliot, 



Wheeler County. 











Year. 



Jan. 



Feb. 



Mar. 



Apr. 



May. 



June. 



July. 



AUg. 



Sept. 



Oct. 



Nov. 



Dec. 



Total. 



1880 





0.05 

 0.76 

 0.16 

 0.33 

 0.27 

 0.87 

 1.44 

 0.06 



0.41 



0.53 

 0.04 

 0.32 

 1.86 

 1.49 

 0.10 



0.16 

 1.26 

 0.66 

 0.82 

 1.08 

 4.67 

 2.44 

 6.06 



4.48 



5.27 

 7.48 

 4.56 

 6.29 

 7.23 

 0.23 

 7.01 



4.50 

 0.10 

 1.54 

 1.66 

 6.82 

 9.82 

 3.45 

 2.39 



2.11 

 3.28 

 5.65 

 2.87 

 1.29 

 3.62 

 1.50 

 0.92 



1.70 

 0.49 

 1.55 

 6.56 

 5.60 

 4.94 

 4.57 



0.54 

 3.18 

 3.18 

 4.97 

 0.84 

 0.65 

 0.60 



2.40 

 0.60 

 2.32 

 5.32 

 5.54 

 0.60 

 5.04 



0.10 

 0.42 

 0.96 

 0.04 

 2.14 

 0.25 

 0.18 



0.35 

 0.26 

 0.40 

 0.84 

 3.05 

 2.11 

 0.09 



16.79 



1881 



1882 



0.47 

 0.33 



16.16 

 24.76 



1883. 



33.91 



1884 



1885 



1886 



1887 



0.61 

 0.65 

 0.62 

 0.01 



33.91 

 37.07 

 21.67 



















INCKEASE OF WATER SUPPLY. 



The question is often asked, and is generally supposed to be true: "Does 

 not the settlement of a country and the building of railroads and telegraph 

 lines produce an increase in the rainfall? " The general impression from ob- 

 servation is that there is a perceptible increase in the rainfall in the western 

 part of the State since the settlements began, but the records kept at the va- 

 rious stations by the United States Signal Service proves the contrary. Ta- 

 ble No. YIII shows the annual rainfall at Fort Concho for twenty-one years, 

 and no perceptible change in the annual rainfall is observable: 



