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Louisiana; Little Rock, Arkansas; any portion of Tennessee, and the greater 

 portion of Texas and Arizona. 



The above shows plainly and conclusively what all Sacramento Valley 

 people know, and that is our winters are equivalent to spring in the Eastern 

 States and as far south as Richmond, Virginia. 



In the comparisons of the mean temperature by seasons with Marysville, 

 Los Angeles, and Riverside, the figures make the average winter tempera- 

 ture the same at Marysville as Riverside, 50°; Los Angeles, 54°. Mean spring 

 temperature: Riverside, 67°; Los Angeles, 58°; and Marysville, 63°. Mean 

 summer temperature: Riverside, 74°; Los Angeles, 68°; and Marysville, 

 78°. Mean fall temperature: Riverside, 66°; Los Angeles, 63°; and Marys- 

 ville, 66°. 



The average winter and fall temperature is the same in Marysville as at 

 Riverside, while the mean spring temperature is higher at Riverside by 

 4° than at Marysville, but Marysville is 5° warmer during the spring than 

 is Los Angeles. 



The average summer temperature, of course, is warmer in Sutter and 

 Yuba Counties than in Los Angeles and Riverside, being 4° warmer than 

 Riverside and 10° warmer than Los Angeles. Notwithstanding the great 

 difference between the average summer temperature of Marysville and Los 

 Angeles, the latter place has as high a temperature (maximum) as Marys- 

 ville. In fact, Los Angeles can boast of a maximum temperature of 99° 

 and over for every month from March to October, as the following figures 

 will show, both being railroad maximum figures: 



Los Angeles: March, 106°; April, 99°; Mav, 104°; June, 112°; July, 100°; 

 August, 106°; September, 106°; October, 100°. 



Marysville: March, 86°; April, 91°; May, 102°; June, 108°; July, 106°; 

 August, 106°; September, 107°; October, 98°. 



The lowest minimum temperatures from 1874 to 1885 (inclusive) for 

 both places, by the railroad reports, were 24° at Marysville and 28° at Los 

 Angeles. 



The average number of clear days in winter at Los Angeles is 47, as 

 against 38 in Marysville; spring, Los Angeles 35, Marysville 49; summer, 

 Los Angeles 37, Marysville 85; fall, Los Angeles 55, Marysville 69. 



Oranges color here in the fall before they do at Los Angeles, because we 

 have a warmer average temperature for autumn, and an average of 14 

 more clear sunshiny days than does Los Angeles. 



It has been said by Los Angeles people that Sacramento has hotter 

 nights during summer than they. The Chief Signal Officer's annual report 

 for 1887 gives the average (4 a. m.) temperature for nine years, and from 

 that record the following comparisons with Sacramento are made: 



Los Angeles, 

 Month. 4 A< M _ 



Sacramento, 



4 A. M. 



May 



June 



July 



August 



September . 



55 

 59 

 61 

 60 



58 



