HATFIELD'S STORMS
FAMOUS RAINMAKER
Charles M. Hatfield, the. famous rainmaker of bos Angelos, California, has probobly made more money out ■of rain thnn all tho other so-called rainmakors put together. One recent contract alone netted him 'a clear profit of £IOOO, and the small coinmissions ho receives for a "few showers" during a twelvemonth, run into several hundreds. In California iie has caused rain to fall on ari-dj sections which for want ol moisture were waste lands, but which now are highly productive, bringing fcho farmers excellent returns for their outlay. Ho has never yet had a failure, and if lie takes a contract to produce rain no one need doubt that he will Jimake good," as the Americana say. Mr Hatfield is thirty-six year,* of age, and has Ik-en coaching rain out of the clouds for about fifteen year« He denies that he iy a rainmak. ,: . though that is the title which been conferred upon him throughout tho length and breadth of America.
HE TELLS lilS SECRET
"I don't make rain," lie repeated, "and it would be absurd for me to say that I do. I simply attract the clouds, and they do tho refit. My methods are quite different to that of the men who have gone before m*, and who caused the ram to fall bv sending up bombs, exploding dyniaito, setting oft' gunpowder, etc., • n order to jar the atmosphere and bri i;.: down the rain. You can't bring dn\ "> rain if the clouds are net there, ar.rl yon cannot attract clouds by detonation. I attract moisture; I do not create it.
"The -method i employ to attract rain is through certain chemicals—-the ingredients of which 1 cannot, of course, divulge—which are poured into huge - tanks erected on stilts. '1 he fumes from these big 'vats' ascend into the sky, and within a short time attract clouds, which are finally persuaded to 'open up' and pour tlief rain on the land beneath. Of course v was laughed at at the beginning, 'nit wh?n f was able to prove every .-uUeinent 1 made the public took the ni't tor up and gave n:e a show. The (i.vt big contract 1 got--—big in importa-i o. though the actual money I recei\cl scarcely paid my expenses—was Irom the bankers and business men of Los AngeM who was desirous of having 18in. of rain in a certain part of Sou thorn California. This was- in IT/). They approached me in the mat , and' I agreed to give them ISin. lor 1000 dollars.
"T covered the region named wth from lOin to 26in. of rain, and prou pilv received the money. This incident made mo well known, and 1 was noon receiving contracts 'for rain fiorc all sections of eountr.\
"T depend upon the atmosphere afTinitv which I create by the in >rible evaporation ol certain chemic-i' , and, after studying and expo;imenl ing for several years, 1 have diseowed tho condition of* aerial strain 1 -' which encourages the clouds to mo r ~ in and precipitate their- burdens
The stornif which Mr Hatfield ates—and they are real storms— are never concentrated, but extend large areas, thereby benefiting ni.mv sections of the country. There is ny things greatly mystifying, he says, iii the proposition to one who ha<i st i 1 ied atmospheric conditions. Stnrm-
-'■p induced to move +o certain tions. or are repelled there!-mi through varied conditions. If one can induce a certain atmospheie l.e can attract moisture to that That 'is what Mr Hatfield Is doing, and it is all perfectly simple and easy!
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 22 November 1912, Page 7
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594HATFIELD'S STORMS Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 22 November 1912, Page 7
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