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TRANSACTIONS OF THE 



Near by is Pacific Grove Retreat, a more economic and rural retreat; a 

 resinous grove on the ocean shore, its slope filled with cottages. It is one 

 of the most popular of resorts. 



SPRINGS. 



Monterey, Lake. Sonoma. Napa, Colusa, Contra Costa, Placer. Tehama. 

 Shasta, Santa Cruz, all have noted springs of medicinal properties much 

 resorted to, and where hotels and cottages stand ready for the entertain- 

 ment of tourists. Those of Lake, Napa, Sonoma, and Santa Clara are 

 perhaps most resorted to because best known by reason of the longer period 

 that has elapsed since their discover}'. Santa Cruz is a chief bathing resort 

 in Summer, and in Winter is a lovely, genial spot for the tourist and rest- 

 seeker. Marin County, at San Rafael, and Placer County, at Auburn, 

 offer two widely known sanitariums, indorsed by the medical faculty as 

 unequaled resorts for invalids, while for pleasure-seekers, with their unsur- 

 passed facilities for hunting, fishing, driving, mountain climbing, and valley 

 wandering, they have no superiors. 



Of cities, Sacramento, Oakland. San Jose, and Marysville offer them- 

 selves as Winter resorts that are in every essential semi-tropic, and with 

 complete appointments in the shape of good hotels and private boarding- 

 houses. The drives about these places are unequaled for beauty, and 

 even in the midst of the wet season some of the paved drives are in excel- 

 lent condition. 



COMPARISON OF TEMPERATURE AND SUNSHINE 



FORNIA AND ITALY. 



BETWEEN CENTRAL CALI- 



The following comparison of temperature and bright days between Cen- 

 tral California and Italy are from official observations and records. The 

 table gives to our fair Pacific inheritance an enviable superiority, which at 

 no distant day will be recognized throughout the world, and which will 

 cause tourists and nations to " flow unto us in numbers as the sands of the 

 sea." Here is the official record: 



iTAL'i . 



Av. Winter 

 Temp. 



Av. Yearly 

 Temp. 



Central California. 



Av. Winter ] 

 Temp. 



Av. Yearlv 

 Temp. ' 



Palermo ... 



Naples 



Koine 



Florence.. 



Pisa 



Genoa 



•San Remo. 

 Mentone . . 



Nice 



<'annes ... 



Averages 



53.1 

 48.5 

 48.9 

 44.3 

 46.4 

 44.!) 

 48.9 

 19.0 

 47.8 

 49.6 



48.1 



(33.5 

 61.3 

 60.7 

 r.s.s 

 60.4 

 60.4 

 60.1 

 60.9 

 59.5 

 60.2 



Sacramento . 

 Woodland .. 



Rocklin . 



Auburn 



Colfax 



Marysville .. 



Oroville 



Cliico 



Red Bluff... 

 Redding 



60.6 ij Averages 



48.3 

 49.1 

 45.7 

 45.0 

 45.9 

 49.7 

 53.0 

 48.5 

 47.0 

 48.7 



48.1 



60.2 

 62.8 

 61.1 



58.5 

 58.4 

 56.2 

 65.4 

 64.9 

 62.7 

 63.7 



62.2 



The highest temperature for Italy is 92°, at Palermo; and the lowest 

 20°, at Cannes. The highest in the Sacramento Valley is 112°, at Chico: 

 and the lowest 18°, at Auburn, which is situated well up in the foothills of 

 the Sierra Nevada. The average number of clear days in the Sacramento 

 Valley is 238, while the average number in the favored portion of Italy is 

 but 187. This is proof positive that the superiority of the " eternal sun- 



