The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-12-09
San Diego, Calf !.

san Ul0SO, SdllA.
NY Dear Editor--
Sometime ago you accused me OF
having offered to write an interesting
l. tier for publication in the lndepen-
dent, and were it not that think
it is a charitable act to forbear with
an editor when he deviates. from one
of the most important principles or
tue Divine attribute, l have notion
to intict the very serious penalty upon
you not to write one at all.
BY the way, have discovered that
good old Minot seems to have left
the straight and narrow path alto
gether could prove that anyway by
the Stanley Sum for when our o.d
friend and neighbor Julius Fauchald
upon b isreturn from California last
spring reported us as being DESTROYS
of and expecting to return before long
to North Dakota l made up my mind
1hat something was wrong and With
regret must admit that, although
when 1 first knew Mr.. Fauchald, l
did not doubt his veracity, now l do
and therefore-well, never mind the
rest. l will forgive him just once
more. - ,3!JX2
Now for the real object OF this
communication which, Of course, is
southern California or rather the City
o. San Diego. i.@'-
A lot of sun burned, graveliy barren
looking hills ond beautiful, green
cultivated and extremely fertile val
legs, that is the coast country OF
Southern California in summer. A
finely situated, cean, orderly and pro-
gressive city with it, palms, pepper
trees, rubber trees, acacias and flow
ers, a southern city populated by nor
tnern people not infected with the
hook worm disease, that is San Diego
all the time. To begin with, San
Diego can prove by the U. S. weather
reports her claims Of having absolute
ly the most salubrious, equable and
congenial climate in North America,
il not in the world. Winter temp "ra-
ture probably dpeS not touch the
lreezing point more than once in sew
sra years and generally runs from
As degrees to IS or 70 degree, while
that of summer will range mostly be-
tween SO and 80 degrees, occasionally
going up to 80 degrees and l believe
that "a was the record heat for a
great many years until the summer
just passed when this record was
broken. OF course, to be working out
in the sun would be plenty hot, be-
cause the difference in heat between
the sun and the shade is much graf
er than in northern ATTITUDES, and
then this only applies to a strip of a
few miles Immediately aong the
ocean, for further back and especial
ly in low attitudes it has the reputa-
ton Of being-we-l, just beastly hot,
some people claiming that hell is
located only about 3-4 of mile from
Yuma, Ariz., or somewhere in the
lmperia: valley.
Precipitation varies from an average
OF about inches in season in San
Diego to 35 or 40 inches or more up
in the mountains and it is the rainfall
in the mountains of the back country
that supplies the city with water,
enough reservoir capacity being pro-
pided for at the present to supply a
city several times the size of San
Lego with water if no rain were to
4a.4 for a number of years and work
going on all the time to incease it..
The storage system and the ducts
leadAng 20 the city are owned by a
private corporation which supplies
the water to the city at the rate OF
4 cents per thousand gallons, the city
owning the system inside it's limits
and charges the consumers at the rate
o. 10 cents per thousand gal ons. which
rates are said to be among the very
lowest in the country.
Gas and electricity are furnished by
q private corporation, the former al
rate of 81 per thousand cubic feet
and the latter at IL cents per kilowat
San Diego is going to celebrate the
opening to commerce in 1915, Of the
great inte1oceanic Panama canal with
real worlds fair which, by the way
may be kept open and running whole
year SO far as winter weather i:
concerned and probably will be. This
in conjunction with the completion
of the direct railroad Quiet to the
east, now under construction is, ex
pected to double the size of this cit,
several times in the next few years
As to industrial conditions, cost o
living, ETC., this country is not yer,
much different from any other. Mel
who do common labor for the cit,
for example receive 81. 90 to $2.5
for hours work and mechanics ge
from SO to S., and az far as cal
understand there are comparativel,
very few idle men, and to Judge from
our own experience in securing he'll
for the house, not one idle woman il
the city. -
Some food stuffs are higher her