Oliver B. Huntington’s Prophetic Revelation on Rain and Climate

“In my innocent ignorance I thought we would be pretty independent of nature if she never rained on the land. It needs to be remembered that everything we were experiencing, seeing and doing was new and novel, though ever so terrible to us, and the whole civilized world, and most of the savages. In talking about the lack of rain in that country of wonders, he said: 'But as we settle up the country and build houses, fences, plant trees which will become tall and reach up towards the clouds; as we pour out the creeks upon the earth to evaporate and make mists, as we build stacks of hay and grain, our chimneys send forth smoke to help make clouds, etc., etc., we will raise grain comparatively without irrigation.' These are almost exactly his words. That word 'comparatively' struck me with force, causing me to think that we would always have to irrigate some. We are all witnesses of the fulfillment of that prediction in less than fifty years.”

— Oliver B. Huntington, The Young Woman's Journal, vol. 6 no. 10