The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-12-17

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boom" prices were not too high after
all.
People in the East cannot begin to COM
prehend the extent of California, to say
nothing of its climate and productions,
which must be taken in gradually.
Strangers have not been educated up to
the fact that California is more than a
State. 1t is principality in itself. Let
us compare the area of some of the East
ern States:
New York's area, in square miles,. 1910
fehhsylNanla area, square miles. 1925
Mlchlgan area, square miles ............. 5S,915
Cohnectlcnts area, square miles,. 1890
Total area, square miles, of the four
states ..-....-.-. IS, 290
Cal1fornla's area square niles. s. 800
Calliornia's excess over those four States,
20 square miles
The above data shows California to be
seventy square miles in area greater than
the States mentioned. While they have
III counties, California has but a. Our
State is no miles long; extreme breadth
$50 miles; least breath $50 miles, with
coast line over 700 miles. California has
on an average a little over 29S square
miles to each county, or over three times
as much as the average for each county in
New \ ork; over four times as much as in
a pennsylvania county, a Michigan
county, or one in Connecticut. If Cali
fornia were transplanted on the Atlantic
Boston, Mass, to Savannah, Ca, or
cover the seacoast of eleven States that
are swept by the cold polar currents from
Hudson Bay. These comparisons may
serve to enlighten our readers in the
Eastern States as to the great extent of
territory that California covers. and Illus
trates the difficulty and almost impossi-
Dllity OF giving our Eastern visitors
tourists, health and homeseekers an in
telIigent idea of either the climatic feat
ures or the vast resources of California.
1t must be borne in mind that this State
Is the second largest in the United States
having an area in square miles OF 15S, $50,
while Texas has 265, $50 square.miles.
The latitude of Fort Jones, Siskiyou
County, on the north, is Az, being the
same as Boston on the Atlantic Coast
san Diego in the south is in latitude 32o
being the same as Savannah, Ca. in the
East. The mean winter temperature at
savannah is 530, while that of san Diego
IS o41. The mean summer temperature at
savannah Is 81, while San Diego is but
IS, showing the tourists which side OF
the United States is the most salubrious
during the summer or heated term. Fort
Jones, in extreme Northern California
has mean summer temperature OF 90,
the same as Boston; the latters mean
winter temperature is 2So, while our
mountain town of Fort Jones, with an
elevation Of 5000 feet, has mean winter
temperature of 81, or 6' warmer than
BosJon's blizzard blighting, breezy at
mosphere. Monterey's mean summer
temperature is 640, ahd Richmond, Va,
750. Monterey's mean winter tempera-
ture is 81, while Richmond's is only 81
Sacramento's mean summer and winter
temperatures are IA and 49,, respectively
While Baltlmore's mean summer and
winter temperatures are 730 and So. The
mean summer and winter temperatures
of San Francisco are CO. and 5l0, while at
lol no
and So.
At Los Angeles the mean summer and
winter temperatures are 700 and 540, as
against So and 49, at Atlanta, Ga.
Santa Barbara's mean summer and
winter temperatures are 6So and $50. as
against 76' and 43' at Raleigh, y. G.
The places named in the East, and used
as comparison with California, are stu
ated exactly on the same line of latitude
and therefore gives us the fine showing
OF open, mild weather, where flowers
bloom the winter through.
CALIFORNIA; CLIMATE.
The Riverside Press has the following,
as emanating from DIR. Norman Bridges:
my observation ofSouthern California
as place OF residence, as compared with
the States east of the mountain region,
leads me TO these conclusions: The
physical discomfort incident to the
weather is about 70 per cent. of what it is
bic as compared to the same seasons in
the East. The winter, which is regarded
by our friends in the East as most de-
hghtful, is really the most disagreeable.
The spring is the most charming; next in
order Of comparison is the autumn, while
the summer, although witnessing a
higher temperature OF nve or ten degrees
than the Chicago summer, is very much
less disagreeable The nights, with rare
exceptions, are so cool as to require
blankets in sleeping.
The winter is the season of rain
clouds and such colds as we have. The
temperature frequently touches the freeZ-
ing point and occasionally drops several
degrees below for . short time during the
night, but rarely is it cold enough to
harm roses and oranges. The winter is
also our period OF winds, some of which
are disagreeable. Occasionally, but not
often, we have a windy day in the val
legs, when the dust is carried into the air
by the force of its currents.
1T is unwise and unfair to claim for
this region any special medicinal virtue
Tor particular diseases, but the air being
drier makes life more endurable tor pull
mOnary patients and their recovery more
likely. The possibility of living largely
out OF doors, with the exercise which that
involves, helps numerous such iuvalids
as well as many others, to recover, who
in the climate of the East would certainly
die.
THE SAME HERE.
The Director of the California Weather
Service can heartily indorse the above,
but must say that it stands as good for
Sacramento City and Valley as it does Tor
Los Angeles and Southern California.
Being stationed as Observer for two
years in Alpene, Mich, where navi-
CATION was frozen or closed from the
middle of November to the middle OF
March, and sometimes middle of April,
my health became poor from throat and
bronchial troubles, along with the rheu-
matism, which became so severe that 1
lost flesh until only rs pounds tipped the
scales, and was compelled to ask the
Chief Signal officer for change OF
climate on account Of my health, backed
by doctor or surgeons certificate, ask
ing TO be sent to Chattanooga, Tenn;
Atlanta. Ca, or to Charlotte, y. c: but
instead of either place was ordered to
take charge of the Sacramento Signal
Office, arriving in the Capital City on
March Is, 1881, and have resided here
ever since. 1t took twelve or eighteen
months TO get thoroughly acclimated,
but when did the flesh began to cover
my emaciated frame, until L now weigh
$50 pounds, all due 10 the California
climate-clear days, plenty of sunshine
with mild Al nd oman NiDtar-