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Title: The world's opportunities and how to use them
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Guernsey, Alfred H. (Alfred Hudson), 1824-1902
Subjects: Industries
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Jersey ... 44 70 29 52 50 88 19 54 New Mex. Ter.. 20 70 32 51 50 79 33 52 New York 42 75 32 48 54 83 53 70 North Carolina. 46 72 38 54 62 83 46 66 Ohio 40 76 32 52 Oregon 39 66 37 50 40 77 33 54 Pennsylvania. . 40 75 32 48 38 76 31 52 Rhode Island.. 42 70 30 50 44 71 24 48 South Carolina. 41 79 46 63 Kansas 45 76 29 53 Tennessee .... 46 74 38 57 5058 75 35 55 3515 84 50 68 Louisiana 82 50 68 Utah Ter 76 27 51 42 69 23 44 Vermont 41 68 17 42 Maryland 48 79 34 56 45 76 41 38 58 Massachusetts . 45 71 21 48 Wash. Ter . 54 63 51 Michigan 31 68 27 47 West Virginia . 43 71 31 52 Minnesota .... 36 75 25 47 Wisconsin .... 32 72 20 46 Mississippi.... 58 84 43 66 Wyoming Ter.. 14 72 13 44 Whenever possible, these figures give the average results atdifferent points in the States for a number of years; but in somecases such data are inaccessible, and the figures represent onlya single place. Thus, the observations for California were thosemade at San Francisco; for Texas, at Austin; for Washington
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1 CLIMATE, TEMPERATURE, AND RAINFALL. 571 Territory, at Steilacoom; for Utah, at Salt Lake City; for NewMexico, at Santa Fe; for Wyoming, at Cheyenne. We find norecord of continuous observation for even a single year in Ne-vada or Arizona; and in no State does the mean temperatureindicate the extreme range of the thermometer, which often risesin summer many degrees above the mean, and in winter fallsmany degrees below the mean range. This is more especiallythe case in the central basin and in the prairie States of theNorth-west. The rainfall in nearly every section is amply sufficient foragricultural purposes if it were properly distributed; but whereit falls below twenty inches artificial irrigation is advisable; ifit is less than ten inches, irrigation is absolutely indispensablein order to secure any probability of good crops. The periodic-ity of the rainfall is also a matter to be taken into account. Onthe Atlantic coast rains occur at all seasons, but in the Southernportions main

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