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(March 5, , p. 2)
The shaft needs no adjustment to the wind Its all the same let the wind come any way it pleases I think instead of the pasing through the shaft at right angles there should be 3 arms making six sails. They can be put in spirelly on just above the other from the bottom to the top of the shaft. I think Ive lso got a contrivance for making the wind furl sails just in proportion to its strength ere bu regulating the power conm letely. W er power is little or no account here + timber is scarce for steam + when the failing grass put acen ox (?) . The wind is bound to be harm sed. Here is overmans wind table Velocity of Wind feet per second presure per square foot i
scarecly senseble- 1l----- gentle wind--- 3----- moderate greze-- 6----- Brisk breeze--- 18---- good breeze -- 22------ Brisk gale -- 30---- High wind 45-- very high storm -- 70 yo 90 Hurricane 100 or more
in calculating the horsepower for this country I think "good breeze" might e taken as a st =and ive figured it it a little but
cant get time from my other deme-
tions to do much at it. I think there is the grinding of one hundred bushes of grain in 2 hours in every 600 aquare feet (or 25 feet square) of open space on the prairies The ma clasas at 9 oclock + it is now about the time an Indian has been drinking ost here several days + he was pursued arrested last night for heving murder family out North west of this. Weve hear of pur wheel timber it is at Honey Grove + a wagon starts tomarrow after it. My consolation in this drag(?) is im making half an acre per day. I've pat parker used to it. The prairies are burning all round. folks are sowing oats + plantin corn. CB Moore
