AUDUBON COUNTY TODAY. (CONT'D)
RAINFALL AND DRAINAGE.
OFFICE OF GREEN BAY LUMBER COMPANY, AUDUBON.
The record of years has demonstrated a most wonderful uniformity in rainfall, and the few seasons denominated as dry have as well shown the extraordinary capacity of the sod to retain moisture, a quality acknowledged by geologists as one of the chief advantages of this locality. The annual rainfall has been shown to be from 40 to 45 inches, so providentially administered as to be equal to the needs of crops at all seasons of the year, and the undulating surface of the prairies has always been protection from the disastrous loss of time inevitably incurred by wet seasons in so many other localities. These advantages have proven never-failing and are the proud boast for the county of those who have longest proclaimed themselves residents. The year 1879 is remembered as the dryest in the history of the county, when, in the hot and parching moth of June, the Botna river ceased to flow, and people judging by the soil of the older counties prophesied a failing of crops, but the harvest routed their gloomy fears, as it was bountiful and rich, and even corn, the county over, was fully an average crop. Such results have inspired the confience that causes our people to state that in these respects our county is not excelled by any in the state.
CATHOLIC CHURCH, AUDUBON.
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Transcribed February, 2025 by Cheryl Siebrass from History of Audubon and Audubon County, Iowa,
The Eden of the West., 1887, pp. 12.
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