Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1901-02-28
Heavy Rainfall in San Diego.

H0dVy ndlt1IdjI III Gan Di0SOs
Since our arrival here this Sec
ton has been subjected to the
heaviest rainfall it has had for %
years. For the past. three years
it has gone through the hard ex-
perience of a prolonged drouth,
with all it's attendant misfortunes.
Consequently, the unusually heavy
rainfall of this winter has inspired
the people generally with new faith
and hope. The rainfall in the first
eight days of February was greater
than had ever before fallen in the
entire month, and during that
time we were confined to the
house, as the rain descended in
torrents as though old Jupiter
Pluvius, who sits up aloft, was
pouring it on the dry, cracked,
parched and thirsty earth out of a
tub.
A succession of unusually heavy
gales of wind for this latitude,
occurred at the same time, SO that
our experience of southern Cali
fornia climate has not been par
ticularly fortunate. For the past
few days, however, we have had
some really delightful weather,
with bright sunshine, and yet
neither too warm nor too cold,
and after being tied up in the
house so long we are making the
most of it.
The country is now at its best.
The hills are about as green as they
ever get and the vegetable gardens
are now yielding spring produce il
abundance. The ground, which
had been pumped dry and other
wise deprived of the last vestige Q
moisture in three years of dronth
is again thoroughly soaked, tn
D dry streams are running, tn
empty reservoirs are filling ant
the mountains in the eastern par
: of the county are covered with
four-foot blanket of snow, SO tina
9 there is every prospect of a goo
3 season ahead for the impoverishe
\ farmers who have been holding o
3 by their eyebrows for the past fe'
s years.
8 Making living from the soil i
s this section is a pretty hard pro-
: osition from all l can see, hes
3 and learn, and il any Of our Cam;
s Prairie people have ever ente
tanned the idea that they ca
3 better their condition by removir
) to southern California, l shou
4 advise them to disabuse the
8 minds of such an idea at ono
. Further observation deepens Il
3 conviction / have expressed
= former letters to the FREE Pre-
8 concerning the disadvantage
: making a living heie, and o
= only has to look over the adverti'
~ ments of ranches for sale in a
issue Of any of the papers pl
lished here; and to read the zig
OF the real estate agents offeri
highly improved farms for sale
a fraction of what the impr0
ments cost, to find out that tn
a is something radically wre
- somewhere. Millions Of MOI
are invested in unproductive ia
',da and city property here, and !
o. told that the situation is fully
or bad in Los Angeles and elsewh
est in southern California, and t
'i On there is bound to be great
res lapse some time in the near futl
arm, In fact, southern California 7
sea, be said to live, move and have
an, ane being, and to have its whole es
INES ence wrapped up in and depend
Tires upon the annual crop of viii
aso. tourists and the money they sp'
cd To encourage travel from
,nia eastern states a rate OF $50
and been made, the idea being to
ken, vert eastern people who
cure lure heretofore spent their winte
II Is Florida to come to the Pa
e by coast. Consequently this cou
is today full of tourists, and
on Diego itself, although not
direct line of railroad and &