Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-08-12

curative in many respects. Next to the
Fvewater Spring, with its peculiarly col
ored LIQUID then crossing Geyser creek you
climb ~ the seething gorge to Proserpines
Grotto the Devils Arm Chair
THE DEVILS KITCHEN,
The Devils Inkstand, from which You
may din the napthic liquid with which TO
write vour name Then come the Hot
Alum Spring Pluto's Punch Bowl, Cold
AInu Spring. Gevser Smokestack, Witches
Caldron. Devils Canopy, Devils Pulpit,
Steamboat Spring, regularly pulling Ike
high-pfessure engine, Temperance SPRING
Lovers Retreat Lava Beds Devil lea
Kettle. Indian Sweat Baths, Lemonade
S,,riu.5 Devils oven. and other strange
formations and stranger waters. IN TINS
CANYON If Is common 70 find hot and cold
snrinss. side by side and hot and cold
waters mingling within few inches OF
their sources The ground Is all more or
less heated. as if the spot we're Underlald
with volcanic furnaces In many places, If
YOU push down your walking stick into the
soft earth. soon there will issue from the
hole iet Of steam, and mineral salts Will
BEGIN 10 gather about the aperture, eSpe-
ciaIly sulphur Beneath the feet there is
constant grooming, gFumblng roaring
and see.hing as of boiling masses Of
LIQUID s0rey troubled and seeking for
an escape. There are lighthouses, a
bathip- pool, and fishing streams and
pools. The natural hot sulphur water and
steam baths are much enjoyed by visitors,
and the way thew clean of old cuticle and
bring olt the new man is a wonder to be-
hold. There is next to the water bath
swca. room, into which steam is injected,
being conveyed direct from Natures own
sulphurCus boilers in the bosom Of the
IL
enough for adults, shallow enough for
children, and always safe. The hotel
accommodations are good, camping facil-
tiles plentiful and cheap, the drive in and
ont to the Geysers delightful and just
dangerous enough to be romantic, and yet
to include no special risk the climate Is
charming the scenery superb. There is
postollice at the hotel and telephone com
munication with Calistoga. The best time
to visit the Geysers IS III the spring, as the
waters being them higher IN the ground
and the streams fuller, the activity Of the
monsters in the canyon IS greater. In our
next paper we shall treat OF Seaside
Resorts
Watering Piaces-Famops Del Monte
ssashore and South California, Etc.
The most fashionable and noted of
all summer resorts of California where
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waters is Del Monte near Monterey. 1t is
on Monterey bay and reached by rail di
rect from either San Francisco or SaCra-
mentO. It is but a mile from the old town
and former capital, Monterey one of the
most interesting historic points on the en-
tire coast The spot was reclaimed from
the ocean shore by the energies and enter
prise of gentlemen engaged N the railroad
development OF the coast. Il IS to-day
the queen of seaside resorts, and has not
superior in beauty of grounds, magnihcence
and completeness of appointments and
elegance of accommodations in the world.
In the first place, it is to be noted that the
Monterey climate is Of that equabilIty,
evenness and bracing strength giving char
acter that is so often sought and so seldom
found In summer the temperature rarely
rises above So in winter rarely falls below
SO. ii is never so cold or so warm at
Monterey as IN most other parts OF Califor-
MIA. As a winter sanitarium It IS without
= peer, and as a summer resort It's climate
is that happy mean that is sought by in
Yalids and those worn down by physical or
mental exertion and by those also full of
the strength and spirit OF health.
RARE CLIMATE.
Speaking of the equability of the climate
of Monterey, Mr.. Truman well says:
Purity ofatrnosphere is the great desideratum
Of the seeker after health. During the warm
season. or summer months, from May to Octo-
ber the mercury seldom rises to $50, as the heat
from the valley and mountain side is tempered
by cooling winds from the ocean between
meridian and sunset, and by breezes from the
mountain gaps during the night During what
may be termed the winter months. 81 will
mark. or average, the mean temperature, and
water is never CONCEALED. The very fact that
many persons wear OyercOats al night, and
sleep In blankets the year round, and that all
field work from January to December IS per
formed hy taborers IN their sliTt sleeves. pre-
sentS o beuel and more uuequlVOcal IIustTa-
ton of the cquability of temperature, perhaps,
than any other incident that might be present
ed. The hcalthfuluesS Of this section IS simply
uuquesti1uahle. aud is second 10 none in the
world. What is generally known rs the rainy
season commences in November and lasts three
OF four months Many people who have never
visited California enormously imagine that
during he wet season SO called in contra
distinction TO the dry mOnths-raiu never ceases
to descend. This popular error is corrected by
giaucing at weather tables winch lnNaIiap!y
show that during the wet season in California
there is not only teSS rain, but more ialr ana
beautiful days than in that portion of the
United states between the Mississippi river and
the Atlantic ocean during the same time.
AS TO SANITARY STANDING,
IT is only necessary to remark that the
medical fraternity agree that Monterey
ronks among the very highest and most IA
vored spots OF earth in this respect. The
death rate is so much below that of any
other great resort as to awaken surprise
among sauitarians. We have not space for
the interesting tables Of mortality that
prove this by comparison. Cold with
moisture leads to pulmonary complaints !;
heat with moisture superinduCes malaTial
Affections Neither IS the case at Monterey.
The atmosphere is sufficiently dry and suf-
ficiently humid, with excess on neither
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bay of Monterey far surpasses that of the
shore of the Mediterranean near Nice, SO
famous FOR Salubrity Florida. italy, in
deed no other point is so altogether delight
full IN winter asis Monterey, while for sum-
mer advantages no spot is equal tOit. The
bav of Monterey is twenty-eight miles
from headland to headland. II is the chief
bathing place of the coast and its surf
waters are resorted to at Santa Cruz, Cap
itola Monterey, Goodall, Aptos and other
points by tens of thousands annually. We
are frank to say that the surf is not so
high in temperature as that of the Atlantic
resorts warmed by the contiguity of the
Gulf Stream but that the Pacific waters
are more inyigorating Is unquestionable,
while. the temperature is not so much
lower as to make them Objectionable.
The beaches of the bay are sandy, gently
slopjng and as admirably adapted for bath
ing as art could construct.
DEL MONTE.
The Pacific improvement Company in
1879 purchased 126 acres of land near to
the old town of Monterey and began in
that year the preparation of the Del Monte
grounds, which to-day are unsurpassed in
the world for beauty of landscape garden
ing. The grounds were naturally wooded
with oak and pine, and sheltered by the
foliage from the sea aud sun in Just that
degree that gives such a charm to improved
parks. In the midst of this splendid grove
The company erected a hotel, known as Del
Monte, that has not its equal in the world.
1t Is modern gothic in architectural design,
3S5 feet in length and rs feet in width,
with agreeable breaks in the form of wings
and of indentations in the outer lines.
There are three stories. with towers with
additional floors. The rooms are all light,
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