The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-02-07
California People Deny Snow In Los
Angeles
Pasadena. Calf.

January 2Sth, 1924.
The Observation-Disclosures,
Skowhegan, Maine.
In January 18th, issue of your pa
per, was an item. stating that in Los
Angeles, California, December 31st,
there was six inches of snow, and the
ground was frozen. There must be a
mistake somewhere, for I have been
in Pasadena where we are more liza
BILE to have snow than they are in
Los Angeles, and | know there hasn't
been six or one inch of snow for the
past nineteen winters. We are will
ig to have the truth told about south
ern California, but we don't like to
be misrepresented. l think the Cali
fornia correspondent did not intend
that the item should read as printed
in your paper
Yours respectfully,
w. H. BLACKWELL
Editor, Independent-Repo
Your paper is a weekly visitor to
our home here on the Pacific Coast.
In the copy received last Friday, l
note paragraph in some news items
saying that a good lady had written
back to Maine saying there were six
inches of snow on the ground in Los
Angeles just before Christmas.
Now, Mr.. Editor. please understand
this-I would not criticise any wo-
man from the state Of Maine. No
state has produced or can produce
such splendid mothers and wives and
sweethearts. My mother was born
and raised in .MaineH And my wife
was Alice Dinsmore of North Arson.
had the delectable experience of
being born in the state of California.
But | submit to you | did fine thing
in going way back to the Pine Tree
State to get wife from among the
this earth! Three of our boys were
born in Maine, one in North Arson
and two in Gardiner.
For the past eighteen years we
have lived in southern California, the
past eight within five miles of the
heart of the Los Angeles business dis
trict In that time there has been
but a very few furries of snow in
Los Angeles-neVer enough to make
the ground white And this parti
cular winter there hasn't been any
snow whatever visible except from
certain viewpoints in the summit of
Mt. San Antonio, a very high peak
some 80 miles distant in the San Ber
nardino range.
Six inches of snow in Los Angeles?
Say, Mr. Editor, l wish we could have
seen it, Why, until yesterday we
hadn't had a good rain-the driest
winter in 40 years.
We haven't perfect climate out
here, despite the real estate bunk so
often heard A perfect climate is
an impossibility. We simply think
that we have very good climate.
Else we couldn't grow the fruits and
flowers we do. But we do not have
the snow and sleet Of other parts
Of the country on the flows of our
valleys or in our hills. On the great
mountain ranges that tower some
10000 feet in the air, there is snow
in abundance; and on the high noun
tam lakes there is plenty of ice. But
down here in the great valley of San
Gabriel and San Fernando. and San
Joaquin and in that marvellous gar
den, the Imperial Valley, we pick or
anges and lemons and gorgeous flow
ers ALL THE YEAR ROUND.
l lived for eight years in the val
ley of the Kennebec. And | could
not if l would say ought disparaging
of the state that gave me my wife,
and that claims three of my boys as
her native sons At the same time
am fond of California, and | submit
that it is always best to state facts.
Yes sir. I think Hollywood is a
beautiful place, and the moving pic
ture people have met are delightful.
W. F. SMALL