Smyrna times., 1906-07-25
DELAWARE BOY WRITESOF
CALIFORNIA AND ITS PEOPLE
SHORT REVIEW OF GOLDEN GATE STATE ITS
AREA, ITS CLIMATE AND ITS RESOURCES
By CalifOrnia'S Method of Calculation Taking
The Good and Leaving Out the Bad Smyrna
Can Be Made to Rival Naples.

AGA4SA1A 'ILLbJ Odl., July 11.-OaQ
Francisco and the towns made kindred
in the recent disaster, haye all buried
their dead, and with courage aud de-
termination which is admirable, have
set their eyes on the future-on the
cities to be. As fast as human energy
can move they are making the way to
more substantial edifces than those
which went down with fire and earth
quake, and the great disaster in few
years at most, will be an image in our
memories. But Californians no longer
wish to talk about the disaster. They
wish to talk about the ways and means
to build and how to live again. So,
what l shall say will be of California
in general. 1t will not all be eulogy,
neither will it all be irony, but it will
be truth.
Some of CaIifOrnia's Marked characteristics
California is vast area, larger than all
the New England States, Pennsylvania,
Maryland and Delaware thrown in. It's
sea coasts 900 miles long farther than
from Philadelphia to st Louis. Much
of this area is mountainous and much
of this can never be adapted to agri-
culture. 1t has four more or less dis
tinct climates, none of which are like
Delaware or the Atlantic coast and all
of which have their vicissitndes. The
entire state is subject to two seasons.
the wet and dry. The wet season lasts
from November to May, and the dry
season from May to November. The
average rainfall decreases rapidly from
north to south, being so inches at the
north boundary and about 10 inches at
San Diego. Something more before
dropping the climate after this gener.
alization. 1t has been so advertised
and heralded abroad that it seems to be
common opinion among people of the
other states who have never lived in
California, that California climate is
an enchantment, an elixir of life,
wonder worker, salubrious and always
pleasing to humanity. Aside from five
winter months in southern California
all OF this is far from true. This region
so pleasant in winter during the other
seven months is without rainfall, and
cold fogs from the ocean come and go
every day for several months. Hot
winds and dust storms lasting from
three to five days come in September
and October. These are neither pleas
ant or invigorating to anyone. The
heas which are dormant in winter are
active and agile in summer and are
numerous enough to mention. Inland
Southern California and that lying
east OF the Sierra's is properly classed
with the semi and Southwest. Inter-
ior California comprises all that laying
between the Coast Range and the
Sierra's containing all the largest aud
richest valleys in the state has intense
heat in summer, the thermometer ris-
ing to heights never heard of in Della
ware. In many of the valleys malaria
thriyes in vigor. 1t is the kind which
Exercise without exertion." North
ern California, that laying north of the
Sacramento Valley, has double the
rainfall of Delaware and a subject of
frosts any month in the year.
Climate Made ths Chief Magnet TO Draw.
Since the days of free gold and the
Argonauts have passed away, climate
has been the chief magnet TO draw
people to California, and in recent
years there has been organized State
Advertising Bureau. In California
there are one hundred and fifty-two
Chambers of Commerce and quasi pub
lie bodies of like character which all
work together through the California
Promotion Committee located in San
Francisco. The Governor of hestate,
the presidents of CALIFORNIA; two great
universities work with them, and each
Board of County Supervisors is author
lied to spend a certain amount each
year in advertising their particular
county. The Promotion Committee
also keeps twelve lecturers who are IN
different parts of the United States and
deliyer free lectures on California
Then two giant corporations of modern
times, the Southern Pacific and Santf
Fe Railroads have never been idle in
distributing free literature on Cali
fornia, its climate etc. Much of thi'
free literature contains statement
which are wholly untrue, but the Pro
motion Committee is more discreet. II
directs attention to the good in Cali
fornia climate ETC., but fails to call at
tention to any bad features. BY thi
method of calculation, taking the good
and leaving out the bad, Smyrna car
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