The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-02-19
ABOUT CALIFORNIA.
Its Coast Line Would Reach From Bos-
ton to Savannah.
From the Sacramento Record


ton to Savannah.
From the Sacramento Record.
People in the east cannot begin to COM
prehend the extent OF California, TO say
nothing Of It's climate and productions,
which must be taken in gradually. Strangers
have not been educated up Co the fact that
California is more than a state 1t is a
principally in itself. Let us compare the
area OF some OF the eastern states:
New York's area in square miles. ....... 1910
Pennsylvania area, square miles .. 4o.2l5
NJ chigan's area, square miles ........,.. $500
Connecticut's area, square miles ......... 1880
Total area, square miles OF the four
states; l...........,...,,: ;.....''.... ioSSg0
Californls's area, square miles ......... 1853, $50
California's excess over those four states 20
square miles.
The above data show California to be sew
enty square miles greater than the states
mentioned. While they have 2l7 counties,
California has but a. Our state Is TO
miles long, extreme breadth 800 miles, least
breadth 1870 miles, with coast line over 700
miles. California has on an average little
over 20S square miles to each county, or
three times as much as the average for each
county in New York; over four times as
much as n Pennsylvania county, a Michi-
gan county, or one in Connecticut II Cali
fornia were transplanted on tho Atlantic
coast, the ooast-lIns would reach
nah, Ga, or cover the seacoast of
eleven states that are swept by the cold
polar currents from Hudson bay These
comparisons may sorve to enlighten our
readers in the eastern states as to the great
extent of territory that California covers,
and illustrates the difficulty and almost i'm
possibility OF giving our eastern visitors,
tourists, health and homeseekers an intelli-
gent idea Of either the climatic features 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 l5S,360 while
Texas has $685. 700 square miles.
The latitude of Fort Jones, Siskiyou
| county, on the north. is 429, being the same
as Boston on the Atlantic coast. San
| Diego in the south is In latitude 32e, being
! the came as Savannah, Ca. in the east. The
mean winter temperature at Savannah is
| $50, while that of San Diego Is $40. The
| mean summer temperature at Savannah Is
| 80, while San Diego is but 6S', 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 69' the same as Boston ;
| the latter's mean winter temperature
| is 2S', while our mountain town
Of Fort Jones, with an ele-
walton of 5000 feet has a mean winter
| temperature Of $40, or 60 warmer than Bos-
toms blizzard bliRhting, breezy atmosphere.
Monterey's mean summer temperature Is
GO, and Richmond, Va, Is. Monterey's
mean winter temperature is 52'. while
Richmond's is only 81. Sacramento's mean
summer and winter temperatures are "a
and 400 respectively, while Baltimore's
mean summer and winter temperatures are
| 73e and 33e. The mean summer and win
ter temperatures Of San Francisco are COZ
and $40. while at Washington city they
are recorded as TO- aud $50.
At Les Angeles the mean summer and
winter temperatures are 700 and $40, as
against 80 and 49, at Atlanta, Ga. Santa
| Barbara's mean summer and winter tenn
peratures are 6Se and $50, as against 760
and 43o at Raleigh, N. G.
The places named in the east and used as
a comparison with California, are situated
exactly on the same line of latitude, and
therefore give rs the fine showing Of open,
mild weather, where flowers bloom the
winter through.