Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-07
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rage-A CALIFORNIA; Sheep-shearing.
To the Union and American:
Los Angeles, CAL, Sept. $50 many
letters are coming to US In response to the
letters we have written to your widely-cir-
culated journal, asking for special iDforma-
ton, that we must ask your pardon for
troubling you with another. In ourformer
letters we attempted nothing like slime
writing" have made no vain attempt to
s'p2int the lily or throw perfume over the
violet but gave facts and figures derived
from the bes4 information we could obtain.
We do not own hotel, foot of land or
O clearinghouse in this country, and hence
we are not prompted by selfish considera-
tions in giving faithful report Of the coass
and its wonderful PRODUCTIONS and climate.
just before we left Tennessee, Distinguish
ed friend, who appreciates the beautiful in
nature as well as he understands the prac-
teal In bis profession, remarked that he
thought he would tire Of the mono.ony Of
this country, that he would miss the "cloud-
scenery" which hung SO beautifully over
the bills of Tennessee.
II be could only sit st my window this
early morning and see the soft sunlight
wearing an sureola of crimson and gold for
the brow of San Pedro, or watch IS | often
do the troops of clouds as they emerse from
ths ocean wave and form into battalions
around ths setting SUI, or after they have
seen him dip his crest below he wave, then
see their towers and miDarets and grottoes
ans spires now fringed with gold, then deep
hued with purple, crimson and amber, hang
ing like fairy, cloud-empire between the
blue of ocean and blue of sky, he would
take in at one sight vision of be auty In
spring enough to furnish all the cloud
imagery he would ever need, for all those
unwrstten poems which on humming such
sweet refraiDs in bis large heart. Az the
mountains around US are not covered with
forests, we need the cloud-dropiDg to re-
lieve them Of their baroness. These clouds.
do not trighten US, they do not bear in their
bosom, the storm-fend nor the lightnings
fiery wing. Just think Of it only one
little shower since February, yet our mar
ket is well supplied with green corn, peas,
potatoes, spn.es, lines, lemons, peaches,
strawberries, grapes and every other kind
Of fruit or vegetable known in seni-tropi-
cal climes aud all at very cheap rates. In
this country, the desideratum is 1udter.
With water any of our land will yield a
bountiful h9rvest. .....
OUR CLIMATE. DOES 1T SUIT CoNSUMP.
TTVES?
So many are writing TO Us to know wheth-
er or not its climate is adapted to persons
predisposed to pulmonary and throat sffec-
tons, that at the risk of being tedious to
some of your readers we give such statistics
as are known to be authentic.
They have been prepared With great care
by Mr.. Francis S. Miles, formerly of New
York, but now residing at Auahim, -four
ishing village thirty miles southeast of this
i Y, and they represent the facts in regard
10 the climate, for. many miles along this
coast.
Mr.. Miles; being consumPtive, spent
fifteen years visiting the best climates of
Europe and the Southern States of America,
aud after trying them all, be settled perma-
nently at Anaheim. During bis stay at
Mentone, in France, Aiken in South Caro-
lima, and Anahim, he has kept daily record
Of the thermometer at A. NJ, l P. NJ. and
6P.M,, and the following is the result Of his
0hcorvs ti0u.