CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1903-11-12
OUR SUPERB CLIMATE
Ought to Render Canon City A
Popular Winter Resort.


Eastern states was overheard to re-
mark to an acquaintance in the post
Office lobby few days ago. This is
a fine climate you have in Canon City,
in fact. it seems to be about the best
IN the country, and you should more
fully advertise its advantages in this
respect, Tor its glorious weather, com
bined with its other attractions, could
hardly fail to render it popular resort.
particularly during the fall and winter
months. if its charms were more wide
| ly known"
| Hardly tourist comes here at this
season of the year that is not en-
thusiastic in his praises of the weather,
which is as alluring as that of Southern
France or Italy. The days are ex-
hilerating and delightful, just right for
outdoor enjoyment of any kind. The
sun shines with brightness and
geniaity that is enhancing, a cloud
rarely appearing in the sky to inter
rupt the rays of Old Sol, which do not
scorch but which warm into life and
activity every fibre of the human
frame.
gentleman en- route from Mas
sachusetts to California stepped off the
D. & r. g. train here yesterday and
asked the writer why it WAS that the
weather was so warm when snow
could be seen on the mountains only a
few miles away. 1t seemed to him to
he contradiction of the laws of nature
that the atmosphere should b. so
pleasant in view of the hills to the
westward of the city. He was told that
fine weather was so common here as to
elicit no comment from those &C.
customed to it, and that present con-
di IONS were no, at all exceptional.
He sta ed that if California failed to
meet his meteorological ideals he
would return to Canon City and spend
the winter, a. he WAS delighted with
the weather here. There are tens of
thousands OF people in the East that
wound make their winter residence in
the Arkan valley il they were ac-
I 4usinTsd viii rs ds1ights Many Of
them go every year to Florida and the
Gulf resorts which, are enervating and
malarial. instead of coming to Colorado
where they are Offered climate that
is at once healihful and inspiring.
i The Western railway companies are
doing much to advertise the scenic and
climatic attractions of Colorado and in
time 1t will be thronged with people
from those older states to the east
ward who desire to escape the parch-
ing neat oil summer and the almost
rigid cold of winter. The temperature
OF the Arkansas valley is NOR. eouable
ihan is the case in most of the states
south OF Mason and DiIon's line, and,
os reason ofits dryness, is infinitely
more healthfui and salubrious.
Here there are no "Northers', such
as they occasionally have in the winter
season IN Texas and Southern Cali
lorna, nor IS there any of that almost
iathnmless mud which at times places
an embargo ON travel b-tw-en urban
commuuities and the rural d stricjs in
the states drained by the Mississippi
anu Ohio rivers. While the climate
here may not be perfection it comes
as near hiling all the requirements OF
northern laIitdde as any locality we
sno = of outside the pages OF romance.
Last winter a numher of people came
I" Canon City from Arizona and
Southern California for climatic reasons
and they were well satisfied that
they will repeat the experience this
year, although that section of the
country is famous fur its winter c climate.
Canon City has thousand advantages
to offer tourists, whether they CRIME
here in the summer, or in January and
February, when the East is locked i'm
the embrace of the Frost King, and in
the years to come they will be under
stood and appreciated.
With its magnificent climate, its
splendid mountain scenery, its fine
mineral springs, ITS goud roads, its
superior church and educational ad-
vantages, the hospitality OF the citizens
md the literary instincts OF its society
Canon City is destined to become the
home of many thousands of people in
the course of the next decade who are
n " looking for place where they
may better their conditions