The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-04-11
TRIP THROUGH CALIFORNIA
A Description OF Lake Tahoe, Which is
said TO be One OF the Most Beautiful
Mountain Lakes in the World.
GRAND SCENERY OF SIERRA NEVADA
loontInued from last weekl

We gave up our sleeper at Rock
lin, where we stopped over night.
This village lies at the base of the
foothills and operates valuable
granite quarrles, but has few at
fractions or accommodations.
From Rocklin to Sacramento,
about twenty miles, is stretch
OF the prettiest farm country we
have seen IN California. 1t is
gently rolling, and resembles
some parts of the Cum berland
valley, or southeast Pennsylvania.
These were the once famous wheat
fields of California-now much
exhausted, but more wise y cult
waited. With no summer nor fall
rams the roads and every thing
else get dusty and grlmy. But
there is very little wind TO dis
turb the dust or TO temper the
md day summe heat, reaching
the 120 degrees IN the shade at
times The enervatlng summer
heat of this great valley of the
Sacramento and San Joaquin riv-
ers, is It's greatest objection,
aside from the necessity of irri.
eating in the greater part of it.
The valley is four hundred miles
long by forty wide, and except
narrow gap at San Francisco, it
is completely enclosed by the
Sierra Nevada mountains on the
east, and the Coast Range on the
west. The ocean breezes rush
through the opening IN the Coast
mountains at San Francisco, to
and from the great superheated
inland plain like the respiration
Of some giant creature. This
supplies to San Francisco and Vi
entity the ozone and oxygen for
strenuous life, for those who have
sound throat and lungs; but the
air carries too much moisture for
weak lungs or throat These
breezes upon entering through
this portal into the great valley,
fan out, northward up the Sacra-
mento, and southwark up the San
Joaquin rivers; but their modify
ing influences are soon lost IN the
heated interior. Many of the val
ley people seek the coast during
the hottest weather; others go to
the mountains. Any climate one
may desire can be found within a
short distance; and when we con-
slder the range of products in
fruits, cereals and vegetables,
with It's timber and minerals in
the mountains, 1t is surely des-
tined to become great country.
Nc untains and deserts take up
much of California, but it is a
large state. Have you ever stop
ped to think how large? 1t is
not altogether lack of knowledge,
but often lack of application OF
our knowledget thatleaves us with
out more accurate ideas and men
tai pictures Of a place. Few peo-
pie realize that California is larg-
er than all of New England to-
gether, with New York, New Jer-
sey and Ohio, and has range of
over seven hundred miles of lati
tude, with an altitude from 263
feet below to nearly 10000 feet
above sea level. 1t has two sea-
sons, wet, corresponding to WIN
ter, and the summer season IN
which there is no rainfall, except
l)cal thunder storms in the high
mountains. No lightning, cy-
clones, tornados, SHOWS nor ice
disturb the people of California,
unless you seek them up on the
mountains, where all of them are
found on a grand scale. Annual
rainfall varies gradually from
about ten inches in the south to
Az inches 10 the north, and 100 or
more on the mountain tops, where
much OF it is preserved ia snow
until late in the sum mer, supply,
ing water for the streams and lr,
rigatlng bitches.
! will endeavor to tell Won in
another letter of this particular
part OF California, as 1t impresses
me. We are all we'll. We trus,
Mr.. Peck has fully recovered from
the grippe, and extend our hes,
wishes to all friends and readers
NJ thy, (.h - - = :