Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-02-13

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The Climate Of Los Angeles.
Nothing short of a year or two's resi-
dence will enable a person from the
East to fully realize the Incompatible
superiority of our climate. 1t is SIM
ply impossible for one who has always
been accustomed to snow, and sleet.
and intense cold in winter, TO appre-
eIate condition of things where flow
ers arc blooming, grass growing, fruits
ripenlng, and nature luxuriating in
the richest growth of all the year, at a
time when in other countries the earth
is locked in the icy embrace of north
ern winter. And even il one is able to
picture In the mind a faint idea of our
winter paradise, the thoughts of YER
dant fields in winter are so insepara-
bly, connected with tropical climate
and long months of intense heat, that
II Is hard to convince people that we
are not parched by the torrid rays OF a
tropical sun. We have often heard
people in the East say, "Oh, should
like the winter very much, but | never
could stand your long, hot summer,
with its ever-present pests Of flies and
other insects" eve hasten to assure
our doubling friends that while we
enjoy immunity from the ice and snow
of the frozen North, we are exempt
from the intense heat that withers all
the rest Of the world.
During the summer months, in the
middle of the day, the thermometer
rarely ranges above S. degrees, and
there is all the time fresh and invig-
Grating breeze in motion. On our hot
test days, it is cool and pleasant i'll
the shade, and the most laborious pur-
suits are followed in the sun, without
inconvenience. or fear OF sun-stroke.
The nights are always cool. As soon
as the sun descends, the temperature
is reduced, and the wearied laborer,
as we'll as the debilitated invalid, can
enjoy sound refreshing slumber
The Thermometer is rarely safe
guide in judging of the climate. 1t
may register a hundred degrees and
vet other conditions will make the
heat scarcely noticeable. Forty de-
grees on clear, dry sun-shiny day is
more pleasant, than foggy, moist
day with the mercury at sixty OF
seventy. Our immunity from fogs
and chilling winds, in winter, and the
constant circulation of fresh, invigor-
ating breezes in summer, all tend to
Keep the temperature at about the
point that Is most healthful and
agreeable.
The days and nights of continuous,
sweltering, facilitating heat the dwell
lers of the Mississippi Valley from
New Orleans to st. Paul always suffer
in the summer months, is unknown
here, while the degree of cold that the
writer hereof has experienced in
Vicksburg, and even at New Orleans,
would surprise our citizens out OF their
wits. We are close enough to the sea
10 get its invigorating breath, and far
enough away to avoid its fogs and
chilling winds.
Here, in Southern California, must
be the region, where those who have
lost their health and energy in the
trying climate of the East, must come
to recuperate. If they are bilious and
sallow from the pestilential miasma of
the Mississippi Valley, but still retain
strength of lungs and strong consti-
tuition, they will settle near the sea-
coast, where old Oceans vigorous
breezes will sweep the seeds of all
nalarious disease from their systems.
4. Ii they are threatened with consump-
ton In any OF Its varied forms, they
will go further back, where warmer
sun and pure dry atmosphere Will
bring healing on their wings to the
shattered constitution; and lastly, if
caring not to wait until the destroyer
In some form has fastened its fangs
upon the system, the denizen of more
rigorous climates, wishes to find a
home, where the extremes of winters
cold and summers heat never come,
where he can at all times of the year,
surround himself with the fairest and
most fragrant flowers, where he can
reap rich harvest of golden fruits,
and where he can pass his days in the
perpetual delight of a round of seasons
that leave nothing to ask for, but
showers with an unsparing hand, all
the glories of the year on every day
alike, he will never stop till he has
located himself not very far from Los
Angeles.
Railway 4onds in the East