Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-24
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
What q Distinguished Physician Thinks
Of the Myths that Are Exalted
Int Glories.
rhe Grimes Against Humanity PerpstrAte q
by "Ehe Bnomers and Linrs" OF
shs Golden stste.

| oeVerel weeks ego NfolS you HON
Los Angeles, Cal, giving some obseITa-
lions on that country 80 Climate for in
vallds, and incidentally mentioned the
real estate craze.
Twas warned while there that II wro:e
home giving my impressions, aud II those
impressions did not suit the "riDg" en-.
Gagged in the booming business, 1 would
be severely attacked. That WsrriEg did
not hinder me from writing to the Trib-
une In 3 candid, unubissec manner.
! Now comes tbs Los Angeles Tribune of
January 81, in which is an abusive and
discourteous editOTisl, sssailiug NE for the
lett wrote you. That ssts,k IS jusl
! like dozens | saw in the local papers
while was there. Tue papers are all In
the 'rinen Of boomers, whuss IEudati0ps
OF the GLORIOUS climate" are paid for s.
SO much line. They are I'll guosidiz d.
BuL they are sowing the wiod, sud viii
reap the whillwind. IS they will find
when the thousands they hsve helped TO
s8indle shsll resiizsitbe ful depth Of
their deprsVity. the letter Won publish
to-day, taken from the New York Herald,
WAS q truthful statement Ct the situation,
and 1t will call down on the Writer'S head
he most dire ana hsmssIAna abuse. Tns
Los Angeles editorial do Is 10 tuch cpl
thets as "l!sr" and "crank," hat does
not bring for wsrd single proof that |
mIsstated the character OF the climate or
the senselessness Of the "boom."
Now, want TO sag that l remsined IN
California several weeks after wrote my
letter, and l sa1 nothing TO make me
! n ma nG az ta,o 49, n q Aai
l did, however, msks one misstate.
ment. said there wS6 no "m.lsria"
lhers. l found 1t otherwise. U4iil q
year or two sgo there MSS but little
malaria In Callfornis, but Of late it has
recome wors than Florida. say
Florida because the Cslifornisns are par.
ticulsrly JEALOUS Of florida, and always
ST their state up sgsinst the latter. l
t4lket confidentiallg with numerous
physicians and druggists, and they would
not publicly ssy what they told me. $8
found that nearly every valley and the
seacosst had bsc3me mslariouR. They
thought it was caused by the digging Of
railroads, OF rrigsting bitches, the AS-
Ing out OF "cities" all over the county,
etc. It is well known that the New I'd
gland coast states are scattering ;fp9tfp
same manner, and from nesrly e.sknfe
causes. Now os to the climate Fog
several years tn Csliiornisus hAge lSndeds
their glorious "Tinter climate ~ T6ak
eBnds Of physicians have believed In
those statements and have sezt tens If
'hOusands Of i1valids and delicate per-
soHs there to avoid the severe winters
ot our northern states. It has
been a fatal mistske. / grant that this
Is the severest winter ever known IN
California; but the testimony Of inTslids
IS 70 previous winters Satisfies me that
those who have gone to California ex
pr setting milo, warm winter have been
sadly disappointed.
The mean enpersture for iTyalids to
be comfortable in Is 10 Fahrenheit. Nov
the mean temper sure Of SouLh Carolina
in winter for the l.st ten years has been
55s Fahrenheit. To the natiYee, or thoEe
who hsVe been scclimated, this msy not
be an uncomfortable Temperature, but to
northern invalids 1t Is seriously upcop1-
Portable, and even dangerous, because
the houses sre not built for winter com
fort, and only q faw hotels are now
built for such comfort. They point
to their fruit IS proof that the
climate Of California is seml-tropical. Ali
the fruits grown in California will grow
well in 8 temperature OF go Fahrenheit il
1t is uniform. But if a sudden change &C
ours, as 1t did in FIorids in 1865 and this
winter In California, 1t means death to al
those fruits.
have another word to sey about Cali
fornis. When the esrlT missiono were
founded In that state there were no or
eDges, grapes or other similar fruits
growing there. II Was practically IS
much OF 9 desert 50 Arizona now IL. O1ly
when they introduced extensive, unrenIt-
Ting irrigation could they grow anything.
II Is the same to-day. Destroy all the irri-
eating processes in California and the
main portions OF the state would revert
TO Its desert condition. As proof Of this
l saw mary orange groves and vineyards
where the land bad been sold for speculs
tive purposes. Irrigation had been sue
pended, and the trees and vines were gel
low and dying. Except curing the few
months Of rain, the land has 10 be sat-
ursted with watsr every Eve or ten days
or trees and vegetation Of all kinds will
die. How would an Illinois farmer or
Florida orange-ero1er like such state
of thtugsP Agriculture or fruis-groWiDg
is then one Constant battle with the ere
my, eridity. AID yet they call Is the
"alorious garden Of the verdi"
have another charge TO make sgsinst
the boomers End lara Of that state. They
are guilty OF = crime sgsins. humanity.
While in Los Angeles, Pasadena, end |
other places, EaY hundreds OF families |
trying 20 live Is tentg or frsil boSfd stFac- |
lures. Macy Of thsse people were in
ralids. saw them hOyeripg around she |
stoves In thelr serts, only at for Srop |
icsl clim4te. They said: Eve were told
We eou.d live in the epeR air the yeaT
round; We came and found no Gccommo-
dations, no rocms or houses to let, OF no
tel Recommendations except at exo73itans
prices; We vera compelled TO do Is we
do" Thess people were accustomed 81
home 70 good houses and warm frss. Tne
sickness and discomfort snioug them we're
great. They came there Iured by fslse
representations. Will aot such system
attic policy Of lying react against . cou.-
uy3
vent to California full OF similar illa- |
sions. Tho disillusion vas vary painful. |
have no drudge sgainRt that state.
have no desire TO write 1t down. l want !
physicians, Sud invslids, and all others to |
know the truth. Florida Is paying dearly !
fox the policy Of lies which once sureeo |
that state. Yet the lying Of the people Ct
Florida were very whita lies compared
with those which reign rampant In Call
icrnia to-day. X. n, HALE, II. D.