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tions, when "compared with those of the summit station 

 (10,800 feet) and the central station (4,532 feet) at Reno, 

 should furnish valuable data on the approach of the 

 weather and the falling of storms and frosts from higher 

 altitudes. If this experiment should prove successful, 

 similar volunteer stations will be estabHshed in the val- 

 leys to the east to determine by comparison of the indi- 

 vidual records with those of the summit station the 

 method of forecasting the local frost. 



If means sufficed, kite observations could be made, as 

 Mr. Fergusson has suggested, on the meteorological char- 

 acteristics of the free air at the elevation of Mt. Rose, 

 as is being done at Mt. Washington. 



This third period of the observatory's development 

 stops short, however, of rendering full service. Since the 

 weather at higher elevations is believed to exert a strong 

 influence on the weather at the surface of the earth, and 

 is more uniform than the latter, the practical function of 

 the observatory should be to furnish constant indication 

 of weather changes at its high altitude to the central sta- 

 tion below. To accomplish this either an observer should 

 be stationed at the observatory with wire or wireless 

 comm.unication, or a cable should be extended from the 

 instruments to dials in the central station office. When 

 such equipment has been obtained the fourth and last 

 period in the development of the Mt. Rose Weather 

 Observatory will have begun. 



Reno, Nevada, April 24, 1907, 



