The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-06-12
CLIMATE ALWAYS GOOD
SUMMER AND WINTER

Little need be said of the world
famous winter climate of the Los
Angeles territory. The palm trees,
the banana clumps, the eaves-high
geraniums, the millions of roses and
billions of other sweet flowers that
reach their perfection here In mid
winter, together with glimpses of
merry Christmas frolickers in the
surf at the beaches, are a sufficient
suggestion to the imagination of any
Intelligent person.
But large proportion of the out
side public Is still unenlightened as
TO the delights of a Los Angeles
summer. There Is an average differ
ence of only fifteen degrees between
the temperature of January and
July. The lack of moisture In the
air minimizes the effect even of this
difference; and as inevitably as the
noon of a summer day passes, the
cool trade wind watts In from the
Pacific, thwarting any Ill design the
sun may have had, and rendering the
nights delightfully."- 'sleepable."
These facts put to rOut the con
tentlon, advanced by many people
who do not know, that because the
winter climate of this region Is so
mild, the summer must necessarily
be hotter than-wel, than the hot
test place we have any account of.
Nature hasn't worked out the prob
lem of climate on that basis around
Los Angeles.
In fact 1t may safely be said.
under the main head of climate. that
no condition contributes more to-
ward the popularity and substanti-
atty of the city than this "all-the-
year-roundness" of its weather. 1t
was the peculiarly charming winter
4 weather that brought people here In
3 the first place; 1t Is the peculiarly
pleasant summer weather that keeps
the business flesh o. Los Angeles
plump and firm through the entire
year.
Many Summer Visitors.
For Los Angeles Is not dull place
in midsummer, as are so many cities
of its size, and larger. While It's
people are fond of the mountains and
the sea, and families flock to the
resorts for the recreations that 90
hand In hand with summer the world
over. the same business hustle hum,
right along In the crowded down
town streets There Is little reIaxa-
ton IF business. There Is no reason
for 1t TO relax; for once again the
city Is full of visitors. Where the
eastern tourists Swarmed In mid
winter. residents of the interior Of
California and of Nevada. Arizona
New Mexico and along the edge of
Texas pass and repass. and make
considerable sojouTns I'm the metro
polls shopping and sightseeing en-
route 10 and from the adjacent sea-
side resorts that so delight the heart
of the inland dweller when summer
Is upon his land In all its might. The
number of these visitors Is remark
able, and they swell the city popuIa-
ton to practically Its normal pro
portion and stimulate cuisines.
throughout the period when inland
cities are depleted
Nor have busy men any reason to
desert the business district for more
than over night and over Sunday.
for with the quick electric service
between the city and even the farth-
est of the resorts, and the remark
able tolerance of the weather, they
can "ru out" TO their pleasure-tak-
ing families In the evening and back
TO their desks IN the morning with
the utmost ease. spending just time
enough to glance comfortably over
the evening paper on the way out and
the morning paper on the way In.
These busy resort communities
really are a part Of the-ereat central
community of Los Angeles. init
mately connected with IT by the per-
feet system of steel and electric
nerves. muscles and arteries called
the "interurban car lines" SO that
they draw their sustenance and vital
ity, in a large degree, from this cen