San Ysidro Range Improvement Co. records, 1941-1956.
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Rio Grande Historical Collections
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The Faithist movement was founded by a New York dentist and doctor named John B. Newbrough, who claimed to have written a new Bible, called Oahspe, while under spirit control. Contained in this Bible was "The Book of Shalam," which set forth a plan for gathering the outcast and orphaned children of the world and raising them, according to strict religious principles, to be the spiritual leaders of a new age. Newbrough and some twenty Faithists, as his followers were called, decided to create suc...
San Ysidro Range Improvement Company
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The San Ysidro Range Improvement Company was created as a non-profit scientific corporation whose purpose was to increase rainfall by means of "cloud-seeding" during 1950 and 1951. After that time, remaining funds from the corporation became the San Ysidro Range Improvement Association. The Association worked with Dr. Irving P. Krick of Denver, Colorado and with Howard Major as the President, Fred D. Huning as Vice President among others. From the guide to the San Ysidro Range Improv...
San Ysidro Range Improvement Co.
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The San Ysidro Range Improvement Company was created as a non-profit scientific corporation whose purpose was to increase rainfall by means of "cloud-seeding" during 1950 and 1951. After that time, remaining funds from the corporation became the San Ysidro Range Improvement Association. The Association worked with Dr. Irving P. Krick of Denver, Colorado and with Howard Major as the President and Fred D. Huning as Vice President among others. From the description of San Ysidro Range I...
