The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1888-03-17
NEVADA CLIMATE.
A Haven OF Rest and Health for the
One-Lung Tourist.

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Dan DeQuille is weekly contrib
uter TO the Salt Lake Tribune and
hardly a week passes that he does not
nut in a good word for Nevada. In
his last letter he has the following to
say concerning Nevada a. a sanitar'
ium: u.
"Glorious climate" that standing
boast of Los Angeles is an indigenous
nroduct of Nevada. 1t is sometimes
aunder a cloud" for day or two, but
not often. In the whole 365 days of
the year there are not ten days In
which the sun fails to shine for a time,
If only for an hour or two. Wholly
cloudy days are almost unknown. In
the Mining and Scientific Press of Feb
mary 25th is an article recommending
all persons suffering from affections OF
the respiratory organs, either pulmon-
ary or bronchial, to become desert
dwellers. The Press particularly rec
ommends Mohave desert. The objects
t be attained by living in desert are
D Ire air and sunshire-nothing else.
Now, these being the sole objects,
there is not the slightest occasion for
an invalid to hermit-llke make his
home on desert. In Nevada-indeed
almost everywhere in the Great Basin
region -mav be enjoyed almost con-
slant snnshine with MT square rod
of malarial ground within FIVE hun.
d ed miles. TO go into the Mohave
desert, or any other desert is wholly
unnecessary. Plenty of beautiful val
levs at an elevation of from 5000 to
60 10 feet above the level of the sea
NAV be found where there is just as
much sunshine and just as lit e NAL
aria as in the Mohave desert. The
Mohave desert is merely the present
California view of the situation. tits
beginning to be very apparent to both
people of the East and those of Cali
fornia, that consumptive persons de-
rive no benefit from settling in any
of the seaside health resorts. The in
creased death roll of California since
the rush of men and women of "onc-
lung" to that State shows this. It il
useless for the people of moist, foggy
and malarious New England States TO
come to California and settle down in
moist and foggy sea-coast towns. The
Californians now see this and recon-
mend the Mohave desert.
Let the people who become sick be-
side the sea aud at the level of the sea
fee to the mountains of the interior.
AS most of our valleys lie at an alti-
tude of from 5000 to 5000 feet above
the level of the sea, to live in them
would be to most of the eastern inv; -
lids the equivalent of dwelling on a
mountain top in their old homes !;
though here they would have light.
dry atmosphere and IN abundance of
warm sunshine. In Nevada the inyn-
lid may choose his own altitude. He
may begin with an altitude of 500 feet
at the mouth of the Rio Virgin at the
south line of the State and travelling
from valley northward lie may increase
this altitude to six or even eighr thous-
and feet above the level of the sea,
and all the time he in land of SUM-
shine and pure air. In all the Great
Basin region there is not germ of
disease in square mile of the atmos
phere, unless it be of man. own maxi
ing in some dirty little town where
the people give 90 labor to either
sewers or water closets but trust all to
the mercy of the Lord.