RAIN To ORDER

Hokitika Guardian, 8 November 1921, Page 3

RAIN To ORDER

AND PAYMENT BY RESULTS. WINNIPEG. In Western Canada, Mr George Hatfield, an American, unknown to the mass of the people before his entry into this part of the world, lias created great interest liy his success in divorcing rain from the clouds. And he is making it- pay too.

Ivirly this y<*:ir Mr llntlield, sottlinp; iii list' ncinhbourliood of Medicine Hat i Alberta) contracted with the farmers to produce n certain iimount of rain. Allowing ii natural precipitntion id' three inches during the' season, lie claimed that lie could produce several inches over and above the rainfall that nature bestowed on the crops, and it was aer'eed that he should receive 1,()(;() dollars < (Jt-’OlV) for every inch of rain over three inches that saturated the ground in his vicinity. • 1 If aiiiuia her Hatfield” Inis earned S.OOO dollars flil/ilKI) this sununer, but oiv'tie to the poor crops in the district lie has asked that Ids clierpie he re,l,iced liv 10 dollars • ChOtl.)

-Tlit ; Inl'liiurs have ill'"’ Mslii'il him in >t,iiy 1 1 ir another year, umi under a lif'w contract recently cumpleleil lie will IV- , ~jf 0 1.110(1 dollars i LSO0) Ini- every mi'll oi min uver three that lulls. 'I lie maximum sum that lie may receive, however. i> fixed at I'-’.OOO ilollars UJ.lOil'. All the nullify will he raiseil |,v jhi I ilii‘ subscription am,mp; the farm-

Ilot controversy lias raged concerning tin- mill-making abilities oi Mr Mat licit 1. but In- appears so till' to have

••delivered the minds," Mild lilt 1 id lliiit nature i:):iy have he;:n responsible I,ihe l.em-v rains nt this summer lias iml shaken the lailh nt Ihe farmers who have re-eiie;ieed ihe Ameriean visitnl

IPs methods are secret. Inn sufficient is known of them to establish the tact. I lull when clouds are hovering in the vicinity "I Ins plant lie discharges (Tcmienls into the aimospiierc. and. in mam cases. I efoie people in the open have had time lo take s'-ell'-r a drew '' ing downpour has taken place. .Eeecntlv at Medicine Mat I was clipping a game ol golf when me -I,', 1. -Hi ; Watch ollt! I Pit field is

w orUinLi.” Half a mile away a huge rainstorm i mild be seen approaching. Within a f.-\ minutes the enur-e was enveloped in a blinding tniustorm. I his la ted for 15 miiiiiti's. mid even though I was

CD-I I.l' tln' lii>f I w:ls ,i.| tn the slc i n in sceUinn retime in till 1 cl ii *il ii *i! sc. \ri i*r t lie storm In t'tl" P""' s i. i i|> ilie; 111 'll" severity of tlm storm ;,.llcil 1 1:1' 'fell sf : . lit 1 111 «!I.M ;! " ~■ ■■-. ioml C, 11,1.1 lie ilri 11 it'll. ivur.ls till- cist licvnml ' lie li--M I! ii t tiel'l's ell'ii, I '"it I • >»' l el 1'""

I |: a I lien l s emu 1 ■•. ' shower had been sufficient to give | si iinti In - I" lie- i-r-p- in lla- di-i i h i. E.ep.i, -.. ol eoll, e. allege H,.,t L»' Ra in ma ker’ ’ is "spooling." hut the ! ia, i that he allows a natural lainlall ”! j mehes before he begins to collect j hi- snlait a-etps to indicate that lie is I genuine. | Me is said to have been "i aiM-ttUtl*- ' j,,.," in Califoniia for 20 yea -s. and ■ > j n -lap-mi nt is that lie has experi-cu.-cl eiii.A i:i’e laihip'-. In one '. e however, lie was roundly d“'noutieed im piodueing sn much rain tha- an * dvkes uitliin a radius ol several mi.es Ol where he was working weie Hooded.