The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-11-12
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MA. cAMpsELL AT Los ANGELES.
The wosd.rfsl Variety of Climate and Production.
Sea Bathing all the Year 'ROaad-Ail Klnds
Of Vegetables q. all TInm Of the Year.
Abundance Of Romantic Land.

freely translated, this is the city and
country OF the angels, according 10 the old
Spanish idea Of celestial locality. -.
They found here summer.land-a land
OF the olive and vine-a land Of the orange,
almond and fg-a land Of the magnolia
and the palm-and 80 the sentimental old
padres, who established one Of their mis-
sions near here, called It "pueblo de Ia
reina de los angeles"-or, 1.-THE town Of the
queen Of the aogels."
do not mean that they found oranges,
almonds, figs, etc, when they came here
about l2O years ago, but simply country
where those tropical trees and plants were
readily and congenially domesticated in
the soil. ~.
Coming down here picked up a leaf
OF railroad literature, which described this
country in verse, the first verse reading as
follows:
"Kuowest thou the land where the lemon trees
bloom,
Where ihe gold orange glows in the green thicket's
Where .le wind, ever soft, from the blue heaven
And groves are CT myrtle, and olive. and rosc."
The same romantic leaf also quoted
Julius Froebel as having expressed himself
in this wise in regard to this part OF Cali
fornia:
~ could wish no better home for my.
self and my friends than such one as
noble and sensible men could here make
for themselves. Nature has preserved
here in its workings and phenomena, that
medium between too much and too little
which was one Of the great conditions Of
high civilization in the classic regions of
ancient lands"
After this sort OF an introduction to
Lower California, perhaps you will expect
me to proceed onward in my "Pencillings
by the Way" in the same romantic strain,
on my own hook. I did not set out, how.
ever, on my journey, to indulge in romance
in regard to any section Of the country that
/ might visit, and therefore propose to
write Of this region, as Of all others, in
matter Of fact way.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
But putting aside romance, in the sense
Of seeing and describing things from the
standpoint Of Imagination rather than Of
reality, may appropriately say that this is
one CT the most romantic regions that l
have yet seen in my travels. This place is
really situated in peculiar and remarka-
BILE region. You will see by the maps that
Is on tho line Of the Saith parallel or about
the line OF Central Mississippi, Alabama
and Georgia. And yet the climate is not
by any means the climate of that line in
those States. It has all their winter warmth
without the enervating heat OF their sum:
mers. II has all their capacity to produce
tropical and semi-tropicai fruits, and yet II
has, what they have not, an additional
capacity to produce the fruits Of more north.
ern latitudes. It Is not only the land Of the
orange, the lemon, the 1g, the olive, the al.
mond, the magnolia and the palm, but also
OF the apple, pear, peach, apricot, cherry,
ounce and plum. But, more than all the
rest, It is the home OF the vine In Its great
eat variety and luxuriance in the United
States.
This Is the 9th day Of November, and yet
the weather IL as clear, bright and beauti-
full as on the 6.h day Of September in the
Ohio valley. In fact the October and
November weather that have seen in
California, and especially in this Fart OF
the State, resembles our best September
weather. 1t Is crispy and coolish in the
mornings and evenings and quite sum.
merlike from 10 A. N. to 4 P. N. during the
day. I. differs from the Ohio Valley Sep
teinber weather, however, In the fact that
these fall nights bring no frosts with them.
| It is its proximity to the ocean on one side
aud the mountains on the other that cup
plies the refreshing air by day and the low
temperature Of the nights, and yet wards
of. frost. And this is the reason why ten
der garden vegetation can be grown In the
California valleys, and especially in this
valley, all the year round. The intermiu-
Cling Of sea and mountain air prevents pre-.
cipisation OF frost save occasionally in the
winter in certain localities. In many
localities there is no frost the year round.
Visitors at the sea side In this region are
vet bathing daily in the SUR. ! went down
10 Santa Monica, eighteen miles Routh oil
this, aud took q plunge in the waves OF the
great Pacific the other day, and found It
quite refreshing. Elitor Lynch, 81 the
| Herald here, tells me that he has gose
down and bathed on Christmas day, and
the ianitor OF the bathing beach told me
that more or less bathing goes on the year
round. On the Mississippi Sound (Guli Of
Mexice) where I spent 30 much OF last
spring, Il Is unusual 10 bathe before the lst
Of NAV. Thus you have one OF the pecu.
liarities Of this summer land.
AErEoRoLoaY OF TIE COUNTRY.
A record Of the weather in the Ohio
Valley will show that three-fourths Of the
days Of the year are cloudy, A similar
record here will show that this proportion
Is reversed, and that three-fourths Of them
are clear and bright. Ia this not something
remarkable? There are said TO be about e5,
out Of the 1856 days, on which it rains. The
rains are as often by night as BY. day, es-
neciaily the heavier rains, and three days
81 rain in the winter 10 often followed by
a week Of warm and. sunshiny weather.
The country Is covered with It's verdure
aiter the rainy season sets In. and you see
h Al lie best in the spring. Green garden
tmck Ia on the tables OF the people the
wear round. Weare now eating fresh peas,
beans. cucumbers, new potatoes, young
cabbage. corn, onions, radishes, lettuce, dc,
the same as on the lst Of July In the Ohio
Valley. 90. :,
blss % no other that / have seen, and I have
now now seep nearly oil OF them. In some re
spects Il Is the'most attractive Of them all;
II Ina almost every variety Of climate and
soil. II Is q land Of mountains, foot hilli
and valleys. The soil and the climate oi one
locality differ radically from the soil and
climate Of another locality ten, or even
ave. miles away. There are spots never
. touched by frost, even in the winter, sepa'
rated only by q few yards from other spoti
| that are touched occasionally In mid:win
|. Ter. There are spots where the ground wal
! easily produce Is bushels oicorn to The acre
| separated only by pistol shot from spoti
: where the ground will notgrow ten bush