Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1875-09-02
LETTER FROu CALIFORNIA.
Facts About the Climate Its
Healthfulness Vegetation
&c., &c..
RIVERSIDE, CAL. Aug. 8. 1875.


fornia might be Of interest to You and
ycur readers. Geologically and Others
wise considered, this is one Of the ne,cest
countries on the continent-tbc last that
God made, and last that restless and
migrating man has gone forth to occupy.
mere will add, the last is tie lest Of oil,
the very superbest land beneath the sun.
That this country has been to some ex-
tent exaggerated. by interested parties,
none who are posted can deny. These
parties have lied, not so much by what
they have said as by what they have not
said, 1t is a case of !. ing by wi!lful
and prcmeditated suppression Of the
truth. They tell all the good, and none
of the bod. Hence many immigrants
come here under the fatal dclusion that
this country is Hearen--a land filed with
all good and utterly exempted from all
evil. Thisi. a sad and great mistake.
California in common with all other
earthly countries is mixture of the
good and the bad with the good however
mere largely predominatipg than in any
other country have ever seen. 1t i. not
necessary therefore to bring all her ad,
mirablc qualities fully into view and then
hide her deformities behind the curtain.
All that this country needed to win aud
hold the admiration of mankind was
simply to have told of her "the truth the
whole truth and nothing but the ltrutb."
Your correspondent does not propose to
tell all the truth that might be told Of
California but so far as 60 | shall try
to tell the truth. 1t is of Southern
California in general and of this locality
specially that wish to write.
As to climate this country offers as good
as the best Of any other. 1t seems to me
to be about all that the M ost fastidious
could modestly require. This is what
Colifcrnians call spotted" country that
is the climate Of this country like Peter
Cartwrights growth 10 grace is in "spots."
Sometimes jaunt of ten miles here will
afford as great change of climate as
would two hundred in your country
There are situated in this vally two towns.
San Bernardino and Riverside, apart
twelve miles and | should not wonder if
the difference of climate between these
two places are not as great, as are those
between Knoxville and Atlanta. All
owe. this country taking the year round
there is remarkable even temperature.
1t gets hot but never coll. The varia-
tions are nearly all on one side making
the mean Of average tempcrturc quite uni.
form. But if YOU select a single twenty
four b0urs of the year you will be aston
ished to find difference of from thirty
to fifty degrees between he hours Of 2 A.
NJ. and 2. r. NJ. and yet these changes
are constant. There is a remarkable dis
parity between the temperture Of the day
and that of the night. No matter how
hot the day, the night is sure to be cool.
Yet the atmosphere is 80 perfectly dry
aud pure that one can sleep out in the
open air with the utmost safety. In fact
these cool nights are one of the many ex.
celleucies ofCalifornia's climate. For
sleeping they are most glorious arc
excellence. None Of that awful rolli ne
and unrest that melting roasting seething
affliction that one is sometimes compelled
to endure in the East. Any one with a
good conscience and moderately wei
behave liver can s.cep in California
How l pitt Konxvillians these hot Aug
ust nights.
What Brooklyn is to New York Cal,
iforuia should be t7 the United States the
great sleeping department Of the Nation.
If this management we're complete you
oyer,worked editors could find some resi-
provided you have the FIRST requisite tC
good sleepipg-a clear and good con-
scence.
The winters are said to he beautiful. Tber
il rains and the weather is so balmy that
all the earth is carpetei in veriure and
the plains and mountains crowned with
flowers. The rain fall here even in win
ter, is light; yet generally sadi cieut to
produce crop Of barley without irriga'
ton. Plants so delicate that you would
have to nurse then in hot house or II
the chimney corner in East Tennessee,
stand out under the genial skics ana
many Of them flower all the year. You
can Judge of the climate By the fact thai
oranges lemons figs apricots almonds
and in short all the semitropical fruitl
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