The Delta independent., 1915-09-03
CALIFORNIA AND COLORADO
BY A NEWSPAPER MAN

Guy U. Harding of Canon City, who
has lived many years in this state and
makes occasional trips to the western
coast for his own amusement, has
this to say in a recent edition of his
paper, the Canon City Record.
within the past ten days / have
been across Colorado on the Rio
Grande-from Grand Junction to
Canon City-from Canon City to Den
yer and back again all by daylight.
During all this trip l never looked in
book or newspaper looked out of
the car window all the time. And no
tourist from any country ever enjoyed
the scenery more or observed more in
terestedly.
After a month in the show country
of California, Colorado never looked so
good to me. California is a great
show country-has much of interest
for everybody-is a great playground
and always will be. But Colorado
beats California a mile at every turn
of the road-has more to see-has
finer scenery-has better climate
every month in the year-offers more
healthy pleasures to the tourist and is
far superior as a country in which to
live
In California you freeze in San
Francisco and perspire like a harvest
hand in the south. You pay high
prices to see grand and wonderful
places built up by millionaires. You
see how the lavish expenditure of
money can turn a desert into rose
garden-you see magnificent mansions
and gardens built on rocks and crags
and on slightly desert places. Every
where you see the power of a great
abundance of money in transforming
a desert land into a land of flowers
and gardens. But you always see-if
you look-that the beautiful scenes
have been created by the lavish ex.
penditure OF money
California has the ocean. The
ocean is a novelty and a pleasure to
the tourist and the vacationer. But
the man who has to make a living in
California gets little pleasure out of
the ocean. The ocean is all right for
the vacationer for few days or a few
weeks-but as an allthe-year-round
proposition wouldn't trade the noun
tains of Colorado for the ocean of
California
Living is cheap in California-for
the cottager. Fruit and flowers and
vegetables sell so cheaply that you
wonder IL the stuff were not stolen.
You can see no possible profit in it
for the man who produced the crop.
This is to the advantage OF the tenn
porary resident, but not to those who
own the ground
"The climate OF California is better
than that of Ohio, Iowa, Nebraska or
any of the middle states. But the
climate of Colorado is as far ahead of
California as California is ahead of
Nebraska.
THE humidity of Los Angeles and
San Diego is about the same as that
of Chicago. You can feel the damp.
ness in the atmosphere-you can see
its effects in the mouldy bread and
fruits a day old.
THE thermometer records may
show Los Angeles and San Diego to
have warmer winter days than Canon
City-but ask the man who has been
there and he will tell you that he
shivers more and suffers more in the
damp. chilly days of Southern Cali
fornia than he does in the crisp. dry.
cool atmosphere of Colorado.
81 have been in California nearly
every month of the year. and / know
what the records of the weather de-
partment show and am convinced
that any month in the year the cli-
mate of Canon City is more healthful
and pleasanter than the climate of
Southern California.
California beats us only in her ad.
vertisng and in her promotion"
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