The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1913-11-25


great for any city and county many
times larger.
Enthusiastic cooperation aud keeping
eycrlastingly at IL have accomplished
the desired result. Unique from its
very plan and from lis scope and char
actcr, il stands today as an exposition
attractive alik' to governments, states
and communities, no less than TO per
sons OF wealth and men and women who
are looking for place in which TO make
their future homes.
The san Diego Exposition is a means
to an end. It's buildings will stand for
years, even centuries, in beautiful
park that will be enjoyed by our chill.
drcn and our children Is children for the
generations TO come. San Diego will
have permaApt asset in the Exposi-
tion it has undertaken to build, and
Waen the Panama canal is open and in
operation, when the ships Of all na.
, tions find this comfortable harbor the
first north of the Pacific entrance of
the canal, when the thousands and even
millions of passengers and homeseekers
come here in the future, they will have
gathering place-a place where they
may see az one glance all that South.
crn California, and all that the states
Of the West have to offer them.
This is what the exposition is for
This is what the men and women OF
San Diego city and county have sacri
feed for. When the gates of the expo
sitiun are thrown oven at midnight Dec.
81, 1914, and the myriads of lights flash
into view, Illuminating beautiful build
ings filled with the wealth and culture
of the world, the memory Of the toll and
travail that occupied the previous years
of preparation will pass away as a bad
dream, and that other dream, of "Sau
Diego he Beautiful" the "Land of
Hearts Desire" will have been real
lied:
Climate-City's Greatest Asset
BY T.. Herbert Nimmo, United States
Weather Forecastet.
There is no doubt but that san Dieg,
ha, the most wonderful climate in the
world The warm, even winters and
the cool summers have won fame and
friends everywhere. Every day in the
year. is an Nout dAor" day and, as a
result, san Diegans are "out.d
pcople-cyen - school buildings be.
ing built on he opcn.air plan.
Here are some facts concerning San
Diego's climate, as shown by United
States Weather Bureau records:
Temperature
The normal annual tempersture is
81 degrees.
The warmest month was August, 1891
mean - degrees.
The coolest month was January 1894
mean 80 degrees.
The highest temperature was 10 de.
grces September IL, 1913
The lowest temperature was 25 de.
erees, January :, 1913
Rainfall
The normal annual rainfall is 1901
inches.
The creates. monthly rainfall was
a.o5 inches, in February, 1884.
Ninety per cent Of the rainfall oc.
ours between Nov. and May l..
Excessive rainfall (2.50 inches in "a
hours) has occurred but three times.
Humidity
The mean annual humidity is IS per
cent,
The lowest average humidity occurs
during December, and the highest dur.
ing July.
\ humidity as low as per cent has
been observed at midday.
Weather
The average annual percentage OF
sunshine is 6s.
The most sunshine occurs In Novem
ber and the least in May.
There Is an average of but nine day,
Il year without sunshine.
The average number of days with 0.0l
inch or more of rainfall 10 4S per an
mum.
Thunderstorms are rare, occurring oil
an average Of less than twice a year.
Days with dense fog occur ON an av
erage of 2s times year, being mos
frequent in October, and least frequent
in May.
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