The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1890-11-13
sTAUNToN, VIRGINIA, THURSDAY NOVEMBER ID, 1890

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IEEERRED MATTER
Climate Of the Southern Uplands.
In the northern states there is or has
recently been a general impression that
the climate of the south, including its
mountain valleys and uplands, is not
conducive to the growth or maintenance
Of energetic, industrious habits. This
impression has prevailed even among
men of high intelligence, and with the
practical information that comes from
extensive travel through this country
and abroad. That the notion is CHROME
Gus everybody knows who has observed
for month the business life of the new
industrial South. In the cities and towns
OF the progressive manufacturing dis
tricts. which now include most of the
mountain or elevated territory in the
South, business is conducted with as
much energy. method and effect as in
places OF equal size anywhere in the I'm
tied States. And the average amount of
work per man that is now done in that
portion of the South, notwithstanding
henewness of its present conditions. is
not far below the average individual
work in the best business portions of the
North. Moreover, in this greet indus
trial development, young men of the
| South, and some older ones also, are do
ing full share along with the Northern
men, The upbuilding of some of the
most prosperous towns has been chiefly
brought about by young men born and
reared in the immediate neighborhood.
In theWest and Northwest, where many
young southern men have settled, their
energy and capacity for business have
long been willingly recognized, and in
general prosperity and local Importance
they are equal in their respective COM
munities to persons that have come from
Northern business centres.
Some interesting facts regarding com
paratiye climate in the various sections
of the United States can be learned from
reports of the chief signal officer of the
army. His report for the decade between
1870 and 1880 shows that the mean tenn
perature during January of the Valley
and Piedmont sections of Virginia, as far
South as Roekbridge county, is the same
as the mean temperature of the same
month in the Southeastern and also the
Southwestern corners of Pennsylvania,
south central Ohio. and southern Indiana
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degrees, just three degrees above the
freezing point. The line of the 4O-degree
average for January starts near Rich
Mond, passes southwesterly through cen
trail North Carolina, includes small part
OF northern Georgia. then turns almost
directly northward through central
Tennessee, and continues westward near
the Kentucky line, Forty-five degrees
is the January average in upper Alabama,
the most southerly part of the upland
mineral section. The above averages are
satisfactory enough. Nobody wants the
winters of the upper and middle south
to be any colder than they are.
But it is in the summer temperature
that the most interesting and gratifying
showing is made. Almost the entire
mountain, valley and Piedmont sections
of the South, excepting Alabama, have
an average July temperature of rs de
grees, the same as the July average in
southeastern New York, eastern and also
southwestern Pennsylvania, northern
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Iowa, and
even southern Dakota, where in winter
hlizzards persons are now and then frozen
to death. This 75-degree line extends
southwesterly from New York city to
northern Georgia, passing near the east
ern border of the slightly elevated Pied
mont section, and from Georgia it ex-
tends northward along the western side
of the mountains to Pittsburgh, whence
it passes northwesterly to South Dakata.
The S0-degfee line extends from Norfolk
to Birmingham Alabama, thaAae nerth-
ward to Southern Illinois. The rode
gree line passes from northern New Eng
land through Ontario, Michigan, Wiscon
sin and Minnesota. The summer tenn
perature of the southern uplands, there's
fore, whose healthfulness there has been
a disposition to question, is shown to be
practically the same as that of the most
populous and prosperous tier of states in
the north.
An authoritative statement in regard
to comparative healthfulness of different
sections would be in order at this point.
Such statement was made not long ago
by scientific authority of the first class,
DR.. Felix L. Oswald, whose scholarly
articles have contributed to the great re-
putation and influence of the North
american Reuieao. He puts the scale of
general healthfulness as follows: First,
the uplands of the South; second, the
uplands of the North; third, the low
lands of the North; fourth and last, the
lowlands of the South. No comment on
this scale is necessary. As far as favorable
climate is concerned, the manufacturing
and mining section of the South is at
least equal, if not superior, to Pennsyl-
vania and Ohio, and to the still greater
mining and manufacturing districts of
northern England,
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