California as a Summer Resort 



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THB EDITORS 



'//■■^■fAMOUS the world over as a winter resort, California is destined 

 to achieve an equally great reputation as a summer resort. 



There is such a wonderful diversity of agreeable climatic 

 conditions in the Golden State that even those who live here 

 may obtain a healthful and tonic change from the regions in 

 which they are accustomed to live. 



The dwellers in California's great interior valleys, in Arizona, Nevada, 

 and Texas, are already seeking the seacoast resorts of California during 

 the heated summer months. Indeed, the people of Arizona, Texas and 

 Nevada are the first of our visitors to have discovered the attractions of 

 Pacific Coast watering places in summer. They will be followed in greater 

 numbers by visitors from the Eastern and Middle West States, some of 

 whom have already made the discovery. In summer the Pacific is delight- 

 ful. There are fascinating stretches of sandy coast and picturesque rocky 

 shores. The absence of great storms and the prevailing fair winds lend 

 an especial invitation to yachting. The summer fishing upon the coast 

 is unexcelled. The giant sea bass, the great leaping tuna and the yellow 

 tail have already attracted the attention of European fishermen. The dis- 

 ciple of Izaak Walton goes after big game with rod and reel, and he gets 

 the finest deep sea fishing in the world. 



The city dwellers in California also patronize the coast resorts. They 

 bathe; they fish; they get sunburned; they rest. In short, the mild, cool — 

 but not in the least chilling — climate of the Pacific seacoast of California 

 is especially alluring as a summer resort. Although comparisons are in- 

 vidious, yet as a matter of information the hot, burning, breathless days 

 of Atlantic Coast resorts are seldom if ever found at the Pacific Coast 

 watering places. 



Then there are the mountains. 



The Sierras, with their lofty, snow-clad peaks, their great forests of 

 pine, their sparkling mountain trout streams, their lovely lakes set like 

 gems amid precipitous walls of granite and fringed with the dark green of 

 forests of fir, with their big game in season, offer a remarkable and un- 

 usual contrast to the peaceful, happy monotone of the seacoast. 



The resorts of the Coast Range have less of grandeur, perhaps, sur- 

 rounding them than have those of the Sierras. But they have a charm 

 all their own. 



The Sierra Nevada Mountains are grand as those of Switzerland. 

 The Sierra Madres (or Coast Range Mountains) are like the mountains 

 of Italy, warm in tone, thickly clad with trees and verdure, yet often pos- 

 sessing charms excelling those of Italy, for nowhere else but on the Coast 

 will you find the giant redwoods lining the great canyons. Sometimes 

 the Coast Range in sublimity approaches the Sierra Nevadas. 



While hundreds go to the mountains in summer, yet there remain a 

 thousand undiscovered charms to be made known by the man and the 

 woman, too, who will ride or tramp in the cool summer days through the 

 great forests and along the mountain streams. 



In California there are many well-maintained resorts. There are 

 mineral springs where the visitor finds first class accommodations and 

 where he may take advantage of the healthful mineral waters. It is a 

 fact that few persons know of the hundreds of resorts of this kind in Cali- 

 fornia; yet the mineral waters of this State are not excelled by the famous 

 watering places of Europe. In summer these California watering places 

 are open and thousands visit them. . 



California has room and attractions as a summer resort for the whole 

 world. The greatest thing about its attractions as a summer resort is that 

 it offers a diversity of charm and conditions that will meet every re- 

 quirement. 



