Railways And Climate

A coiTPspondent of the Xew York Qraphic writea t'rom Ugden, TI. T., as fol lows: ín view ofthe wonderfu! olwnatic ch auges now going on along the linos of the great Riilways crossin; the plains, it is iinpossible to imagine a probable' limit to the vast área which muy here, wiiliin a few years, be deemed amona; the best portions of our country for the purpose of agricultura. The secret of tïiis transformation fr.in a desert to n fertile plain is contained in five wovds- tlie 11 ilway has brougut rain. No element was want ing in the oarth itselt, nor was aught in exeess to enforoe terility, but evevywhere there was drouth ín the hot dust nothing grew but atuuted, hardy grss and sage bush. All seemed desolation. and ut.ter hopplossno-s. Wherever irrigation was tried, its 3ucóos3 esuceded the mjst sanguine expectations in developing an almost ïniraculous produotiveiieas to thesoil. No enthusiast dn red, however, to dreaia of the possibility of artificial irrigation over all this enormons expanae. Rivers entering here would havo been rtrunk up by the thirsty earth and sky long ero they eouM have reachod its center. Yet man' work has irrigated tliis land by an unexpected mtians. The Railway has brought rain. 'Lo tho electrical iufluence of these long lines of irou between Eist and West, somt) attrilv change. By others it is aSinned that tba effect has bet'U produoed by inerely tbfl displacement of the atmosphero oausud by the nuinerous heavy and Bwiftly rushing trains. 1}e the chuso what it may, the faot vemains the sume - that, ye;ir liy year, siuce the Union Pacific Ruilway has been opentted through, tbe rainfall has stcadiiv inureaged, imtil this leagnn it has beeoine, so far at least as the Road ie concornd, a deoided nuisanoe. Who of the projectors of this Road ever iiuBinod thi:t a tin:o vvould eomv whrn its trains would be delayvd in the middle or' the plains by ovt'rfljw of water from violent rain Btorms oovering the track, and. in places oven iwepping it away? Such bas, however, been the fact tiiis Spring. Trains have boon as much as twulv) and evtD fifteen hours behind time from this cause alone. The rtsult of this rain fall is alrendy to be sean in the settlciurnt ot' the coaniry aiong' the route. When first tho Union Pacific Road WH8 opn:d te (nivel, one would ride all the lons; day through without seeing & -human liabitation except at the miserablo stations where trains were " eidetruckpd," coal taken on, or water drawn from wells of grent depth. Now, as tar west as Uheyeune, houses are seattered all along, fie!ds aro seen in a flourishiug state of oaltivation, and now nuuierons herds1 of ctttle prove how well the graziers have found the country adapted to their wants.