Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1910-07-29
A TOUR OF
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Interestingly Written in Weekly
Letters by Clarence E. Edwords.
He is OUR Special Correspondent
These letters will be written by
the above correspondent, whose
letters from the Orient received
such favorable comment two years
ago.-Ed.
San Francisco, Cal, July 90
Before starting out on a tour OF
California it might be we'll if were
to tell your readers something
about the State as q whole, so that
they can comprehend some OF the
future statements may be called
upon to make.
California, it must be remember
ed, is entirely different from the
states east of the mountains, in
many ways. In the first place it
occupies the space along the Pa
cifc Coast that is occupied by elev-
EN- states on the Atlantic. A line
drawn across the northern bound
airy, and extended across the con-
tinent would touch Boston, while a
similar line drawn across the south
ern boundary would touch Atlanta,
Georgia, Seven Eastern states are
smaller than some of the counties
of California. All of New England,
'all of New York, Pennsylvania,
New Jersey and Ohio combined
could be placed within CALIFORNIA;
boundaries and there would still be
q little room left over,
1t is a country of magnificent
distances, and people Of the east do
not consider that a little trip from
San Francisco to Los Angeles, for
instance, is nearly twice as far as
from Chicago to st. Louis. Near
ly all the stories told in the East
about California are confined to
what is called the "big things" to
be found here. The reason fol
that is that everything is done on q
"big" scale, and naturally Californ-
ians think big things are the only
things to talk about. But the day
of little things seems to be at hand,
and now you will hear more about
small farms than you will about
the big ranches of from fifty to one
hundred and fifty thousand acres
California was summed up to me
by an Eastern friend once in a terse
epigram, and while | think he was
a little prejudiced, the epigram is
a good one. His idea was that
'California is the land where they
have the biggest liars and the small
est Matches" There is a match
factory in California which makes
about as small articles of that kline
as you will find, and many of the
citizens have told so much about
the wonders here that they have
achieved the other distinction.
But getting back to the State al
a whole there is another peculiarly
which is wonderful, and that is TIT
distribution of the heat and cold
| Notwithstanding the fact that thu
State is eight hlpdred miles long
the temperature is about the sam'
from one end to the other, an(
while it is generally supposed tina
oranges and other semi-troplca
fruit grow only in the southern
part of California, it is fact tina
oranges thrive as far north as tn
northern line. The earliest orange
sent to market go from Orovlll
which is nearly two hundred mile
north of San Francisco. One nigh
we'll imagine from this that no
weather is one of the Affections o
California. 1t gets warm, it is true
and one might call it hot when tn
thermometer marks as high as IL
in the shade, yet there has neve
been case of sunstroke in TIT
State. While the temperature get
high the humidity always stay
low, and one does not suffer s.
much from a temperature over on
:. hundred, so long as the air stay