Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-07-01
SAN FRANCISCO As A SUMNER
RESORT.

As a large number of the Nevada peo-
pie will visit California on the excursion
in a few days, we suggest to them to read
the following from the San Francisco
Bulletin. which will direct them where
to find any kind Of climate they may
fancy:
One of the most comfortable cities in
the United States in the Summer is'San
Francisco. While the interior is parched
and burned with heat, it is cool in the
city. There is the smell of the sea salt,
a suggestion of seaweed and iodyne, the
tonic Of the wind and waves. The trade
wind keeps the city sweet and aiubri-
Gus. 1t is a notable fact that people
leave San Francisco in the Summer time
for the country, for just the opposite
reason that people leave New York, Bos-
ton and Philadelphia. There the Sum-
mer heat drives them out. Here the cold
weather induces the denizens to seek a
warmer climate. Now, all the interior
population have more heat than they
want. The sun is very fierce at midday.
The mercury runs up to 95 degrees, and
SO on up to los degrees. There are
cloudless skies, and never a veil of fog.
For people living in such a climate the
change to the climate of San Francisco
is q delightful one. Many come down
from the interior and find no occasion to
go any further. They find good hotels;
the markets are crowded with fruits.
There is the stir and inspiration Of a
large city. People from the hot valleys
oil the interior find the most radical
change in San Francisco. They can live
as cheaply as at any of the watering
places along the coast, and find a much
greater variety in the markets.
There are thousands of people living
here who never think of going to the
country for any change of climate. They
want to be comfortable, and finding more
comfort in the city than elsewhere, they
remain. The advantages Of this city as
a Summer resort will every year become
more apparent. In Winter the climate
is well enough appreciated, as is fully at
tested by the fact that the city is liter
ally full at that season. A city without
frosts in the Winter and without sultry
heats in the Summer, has a pretty good
claim for climatic consideration. There
are thousands of people in the Northern
States who prefer to Winter in New
York because the cold is not so severely
felt. The appliances for keeping warm
are greater than in the country. But in
the Summer time all who can, leave the
city for a few days or weeks, to get
some relief from the overpowering head.
No one goes to the city in the Summer
season for the benefit of the climate.
Cincinnati, Chicago, Boston, New York
and Philadelphia have an intolerable
climate in the Summer time. The inhab-
itants pour out of those cities to all
points where a breath of fresh air can be
had. Both fashion and necessity send
people to the country.
In California this assortment of nearly
a hundred climates is a great conven-
fence to a person of moderate means.
The plcasure-seeker can have heat or
cold by q ride of three or four hours. If
he wants a good melting heat let him go
to the Sacramento or San joaquin Valleys,
or to any of the small interior valleys,
where the fig ripens in June, and the
peach and apricot are in their glory during
that month. If he wants the rarifed
atmosphere, the balsam of the fir and
the perfume Of the pine. with brook
trout every day, he will find all these
along the TANKS of the ST.
erras, and in a good degree along the
Coast Range. If the tonic Of the
sea is wanted, there are four or five
hundred miles of shore line, and more,
It the bays and inlets are counted.
Now, those who are in the habit of
the Summer climate of San
Francisco might do well to recall the
TACT that it is really one of the most
comfortable Summer climates in the
Union-not for all people, but for that
great majority who like the tonic and
of the winds of the sea, as well as
he softness of its Winter atmos.
'here. People hurry, scudaing along to
heir daily tasks denouncing the climate
IS a most villainous one; but they sleep
veil nights, and not a few of them boast
hat they can do more work with less
weariness than in any other place under
ne sun. If perspiration is needed, let
he obiurgating denizen bethink himself
that it is only 20 miles to the base Of
Mount Diablo, where he can sit down
nd be grilled to his hearts content.
The more our local climate is abused. the
more we are inclined to consider what
advantages it really has. One cannot
at climate, but no people have such an
for sanitary use. It is not
lways easy to extract sunbeams from
he morning fogs. or to turn the trade
Winds into zephyrs, or the dust into re.
reshing showers.
Dur Summer resort is positive, not
legative. There is something tangible
bout the climate. One can touch il.
md sometimes carve it in slices. The
liscontented 60 further and fare worse.
That is always the way with restless
humanity. Our Summer resort will in.
in reputation from year to year.
4 great many people have already dis