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A chief cause of irritation between the southern, central, and northern 

 parts of this great State, is the lack of information about most sections by 

 a great majority of our writers of books, and for the press, both in and out 

 of California. The mass of writers are disposed to be fair, but their very 

 limited knowledge of a State over eight hundred miles in length, embrac- 

 ing nearly every degree of temperature, between 15° below zero and 130° 

 or even more above, with a rainfall varying each year from about two inches 

 at Yuma to over sixty at Shasta, disqualifies nearly all from handling such 

 subjects with tolerable intelligence. Notwithstanding I have been travel- 

 ing over this State by all modes of conveyance and afoot since 1852, I 

 do not want to be quoted as authority on much of even San Bernardino 

 County. I deem these remarks apt in connection with what follows. This 

 place is situated near the western boundary of San Bernardino County, 

 about eight hundred feet above sea level. The Chino and Spadra hills 

 lie to the south and west a few miles, and the San Gabriel and San Ber- 

 nardino Mountains (erroneously called Sierra Madres), to the north, some 

 eight miles, and the San Jacinto and other high mountains between here 

 and the great Colorado desert. The rainfall was not accurately noted here 

 during the season of 1887-8, but it amounted to just about 17 inches. The 

 temperature here given is correct: The lowest degree was January six- 

 teenth, when it was 23° at 7 a. m.; on the fifteenth and sixteenth, it was 

 26°. The highest at noon was July twenty-first, when it was 104°. The 

 days when the mercury rose to and above 100° are: July fifteenth, 101°, and 

 twenty-first, 104°; August eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth, 100° each; Sep- 

 tember third, 100°; seventh, 103°; sixteenth and twenty-sixth, each 101°. 



For November, 1887, the lowest temperature was 30° at 7 a. m., on the 

 thirtieth, and the highest, 78° on the twenty-first, at noon; the average for 

 the month being 58.8°. For December, the lowest was 28° at 7 a. m. on the 

 twenty-third, and the highest 72° at noon on the seventeenth; the average 

 for the month being 50.1°. The average for the first twelve days in Jan- 

 uary, 1888, was 43.5°. The observations in all cases being taken at 7 a. m., 

 noon, and 6 p. m. Following are weekly averages from such observations 

 during the remainder of 1888: 



January 19 - 44.2 



January 26 -. 56.0 



February 2... 52.7 



February 9_ 51.2 



February 16. 52.3 



February 23 - 55.4 



March 1 - 52.7 



March 8 - 50.4 



March 15 56.0 



March 22 57.9 



March 29 - 54.8 



April 5. 58.1 



April 12 65.4 



April 19 __ 66.2 



April 26 63.1 



May 3 65.1 



May 10 64.9 



Mav 17 67.3 



May 24 65.3 



May 31... 67.4 



June 7 69.2 



June 14 75.7 



June 21 74.0 



June 28 73.9 



July 5. 77.6 



July 12.... 76.1 



July 19.. 81.7 



July 26 82.7 



August 2 75.0 



August 9 80.0 



August 16 78.7 



August 23 76.1 



August 30. -. 76.4 



September 5 83.0 



September 12 77.4 



September 19 78.6 



September 26 76.9 



October 4 68.9 



October 11 - 71.8 



October 18. 68.4 



October 25 - 64.4 



November 1 63.6 



November 8 60.8 



November 15 56.9 



November 22 58.5 



November 29 56.3 



December 6 56.4 



December 13 52.2 



December 20 57.9 



December 27 52.6 



Average for the four days ending December thirty-first, 48.2°. 



