The San Francisco call., 1897-06-13
OUR SUMNER RESORTS.

California has become widely celebrated
in The East as O winter resort. Thousands
OF tourists visit us al that season to enjoy
the mildness OF The climate and indulge
in the wonderful variety of winter pleas
ures which includes ice palaces and
rose festivals surf bathing at Coronado
and tobogganing at Truckee. The sum-
mer attractions of the State on the other
hand have not vet been fully made
known, and our Eastern visitors leave us
when spring begins just as they leave
Florida, being under the i'm preston evil
IDENTIFY that land where the winters are
so mild must be a land where the sum-
mers are scorching and the climate un-
healthy.
1t Is time that the summer attractions
of the State should be more fully made
known. There is no reason why the tour
ist travel to California should not be as
large from spring to autumn as it is from
autumn to spring. The variety of pleas
ures here in winter Is not greater than
that which can be foand in summer.
Santa Monica and the whole coast Is as
pleasant in July as in February, and at
Truckee the toboggan slides give way ia
summer to delights of fishing, hunting
and camping, VIII ch are not less raptur-
Gus.
1t is the same throughout the State,
from SlskiYou to San Diego, from the
mountains to the sea-" Winter or sum-
mer, north or south, in January or
August, in the Sierras or by the ocean,
there are always tonic breezes for the in
valid, sports for the pleasure-sseker. nov
elties OF life for the wearied, and rest,
health and jov for all.
10 deal adequately with the attractions
OF California in summer would take q
series OF many volumes. The bicycler
knows thousand roads where il is q de-
light TO ride, the angler knows a myriad
OF streams running through shaded for
ests. where the fish are game and not too
wary, the campers are familiar with a
multitude of hidden places in the woods
far from CROWDS, the mount ain-cli m bers
are aware OF peaks almost unexplored, !he
swim mers know s retches OF sea where the
surf is free from danger, but full of buoy
ancy of the ocean, and the summer girl
knows many a haunt where life can be
lived in the opeu air with such whole
someness as will send her back to the
winter season in the city with vIgor that
ness to all who come within the sphere of
her influence.
There is no reason for the Californian
to go abroad to find any form of summer
time enjoyment. The great hotels which
dot the State from the slopes of Shas a to
the beach at Coronado offer all attractions
which can be obtained anywhere in such
large gathering places of fashion and
society. Meiicinal springs of every kind
afford to the invalid the remedy furnished
by nature for the cure Of his ills. The
mountain lakes offer a complete change
OF air to those VINO live most OF the year
! by the sea. and the coast has an equal
offering to those whose homes are in the
interior valleys or on the mountains.
Sooner or later the summer charms Of
our State will be as widely known as those
which make her winters so attractive to
tourists from he East. California is now
rival OF Florida Cor the winter travel of
the country. The time will come when it
will be a rival of Maine and Canada for
The summer travel. Neither at Bar Har-
Dor, in the Adirondacks, nor along the ST.
Lawrence can there be found such pleasant
weather, better outdoor sports or more
agreeable company than can be found at
our Californian resorts.
1t may be long before this fact is under
stood in the East but it will be learned at
last. In the meantime the wise Califor-
nian will enjoy the glory of his own State
and not waste time and energy in search
for summer res rts elsewhere Let rs
build up our home pleasures and in the
end the culture and wealth of the world
/ will come here to eninv them with us