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SEMRTIK)PIC CA LIFORNIA. 
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SEASON9 IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, 
BT D. M. OIUOAM. 
N nil 1 lie ruasB of idea* extant in tin 
Eastern Staton in regard to Southern . of thti East. 
Ii"t, on 11 it Winter, and they have the 
Iflonnoinj"—if wo must use the word. Wa 
have neither Autumn nor Winter in uny months. The prevailing in.prr 
resembling th© Autumn mid Winter! K»*t w.-m.. to I- that dnnn. 
From tills time the weather lx 
little uncertain for nlmut • van 
California, many havearisen from too much 
telling 1 , many from too little telling ; still 
others Lmvo aiisni from loo much believ¬ 
ing, and, yet a fourth class, from too little 
believing. Of nil the printed mat ter touch¬ 
ing oni climate nrul resources Unit inis 
found its wo y to Eastern readers. I linn? 
seen very little that, is not strictly true. 
People are often disnppoialrd nu leaching 
iih because their pro conceived idea* are 
not verified in every particular. I think it 
is generally because they believe too innrb. 
An orange grove is described in nil its 
comes a 
ir right 
ion at the 
i ring the rain 
| season it- rains nearly all the time, 
j u correct idea of our rainy eeas 
must think of a rather dry Summer 
, own locality, including a dr night 
of four 10 six weeks— that will be 
! correct. 
Thu actual facta of the rainfall 
I nm speaking of the coast valley*—the 
country between the Const Rango of 
Mountains and the iih. The mountain 
tops have Winters Hume peaks have eter¬ 
nal Winter at lluir crown* and eternal 
Suuimnr ut their feet. 
The general direction of the trade winds Angeles for three years, r<o 
i- from tlm north west, hut local causes ' 
make tLeiu south-Westerly for Southern 
California, so that th« prevailing wind, I below: 
cool and refreshing from the sea during 
tho Summer days, comes from the south¬ 
west. Tim reason of thin l# well known. 
To get 
n you 
n your 
or tvro 
nearly 
tin' t stab 1 1 shment of 
Service here, July l»l, 1877, aro gi 
Chimin* 
nring with 
ilie r 
S. Sign*! 
veil 
beauty of foliage and it* golden wealth. The greater heat of tho land while the 
Immediately the cmieopunii lakes hold 
of llie leader that lie 1ms a description of 
Semi-tropical California, lie gets here, fi.un 
and, by dint of driving under careful di¬ 
rections, finds many orange orchards and 
very much unoccupied ground, I hut gives 
him room to make more orchards. The 
invalid reads that the air is hk. wine, and 
bis one idea is to reach hero and be well, 
He locates himself on Ills arrival where tho 
air is, for Ins case, worse than hjs home. 
Ho h.cutes himself correctly, and finite 
that, the air will not intoxicate, nut even 
stimulate, but, is reliable and lets him 
alone, and lus own recuperative force 
lienl# him. 
The leader leariiH that fresh meat will 
not spoil exposed to tin- open mr that 
there is no frost in Southern California- 
that oranges will pay * 1,000 per acre; that 
1 -uiBin vineyard# will pay r-KJt) per acre; 
ten aer. b of each will pay an mooum ni 
$14,(HiO per annum ; that a man ran pay 
for his farm from tin Hist year's crop. 
He finds that, on that particular mountain, 
that foot lull, in that man's orchard, and 
the other persons vineyard, and in tin 
case ot a certain farmer or curtain year 
IliiMj tiling* arc true but they have given 
Inm loo genc.nl an opinion. jf.T 
believed more limn wan told. Mountain 
anil valley, sea and bay, river mid xpiinp, 
hrittvy sod and light Boil, vmy tlm eomJi- 
tiom. with every locality bo numb llmtonly 
gcueial features can be stated of any eon 
Biddable district. The min-., t,„ u 
local. 
Ihc climate and the masons ,,( ft,,, 
lueifie Court. and. Inoie eep.eiallv, ol 
botitliorn California, are .o di He rent iioui 
tw. Of tlm States east „f rl,, | (o ,-|. s 
Mountains, that it is v „ry .Iillie.,|| t,„- u 
icMidcul, of the Fast to understand Hum 
A a a putiuonary, I Would suggest ll.ut 
l,l ‘- ,t ' a ' le ' ,u “ kt< u l' hi- mind tt.ut we tune 
no Bensons. In the unavoidable 
w hiel. a I'd yon who Ini- „p, „l I,. |,|„ 
the northern count ri. 
word, wo have no 
pt'iieiieo of new m "otuijern 
idea of 
sun is shining uu it cairne a rising currant, 
of air which is replaced by a cool current 
tho sea. About sunset tho heat of 
sea is equalized and the breeze 
iimlcrstuoi'U 
swHNoua, The imun 
T, , reaidenta of South 
< allforma is that, they low. || 
in 
in 
the 
the time of year 
aii or the growl I 
by 
iHtr 
. lie condition of the 
until some time dining 
. . r heir slay. Void thin 
tlm whole L 11 O 6 seems like 
thu second vr-m of ll 
laud and 
censes, lu a .-.hurt time the land becomes 
cooler than tho sea and tho reverse land 
breeze comes sliding down the cool mount¬ 
ain sides uoross tho valleys to the Ben. 
This gives uu invariable cool nights. 
Theie comes, however, about onoe or twice 
a year, a hot breath from the hot inland 
desert# to the milth-eiiHl. which lasts about 
three days, which disturbs this oscillatory 
condition of day and night breezes, These 
hot spells send tho thermometer above, 
100 , and are about as oppressive by day 
and night us ordinary harvest weather in! 
tho nortli-we»t when the thermometer in¬ 
dicates about. 9(P, But the steady, reli¬ 
able Summer days cover u period of about 
live months, during which the sea breeze 
is robbed of its moisture in passing over 
lint dry land, and have not sufficient to 
condense into rufu on reaching the cooler 
mountain tops. 
For 160 days the farmer, tlm traveller, 
• lie pie-uie parly, and whoever is out of 
(lours iiioiim it will not rain. 1 think that 
"lie fact quadruples tlm uujoymout of life 
Like everything good, however, tiny get 
tin sonic uf last, and wu begin to wish for 
the rains, and. perhaps, fur llu tmeoiluiidy 
of cliintU. of which wu hud tin d it few 
motilliH curlier'. As thu head uf the truile 
winds billow tho non southward in it* 
decline, a point IN ICOl'Ilcd BOOH after 
the autumnal equinox wlictc tlm wind# 
aro frequently di llcetod from a north- 
-Utterly oOiir-e by tlm Coast I fang" in 
Mexico, and are •eiil up the Cult id Cali 
fin mo iih '.oiith-east winds They co|n«l 
loaded with moinUlro. Tlm mountain! 
si ream# rise slightly and tin, grdUml of the 
Valley n i# moistened with h.’gn In the 
‘■'oili n' of a month in two tin hi- cloud* 
from the auul.li-ciiBt liud u day wlu»n a mul 
cnn'But <d uu moving toward Ilia -a from 
the * 'auiHi Kaiige condemn.a llo m into ram | 
drops, mid we gel a whowi i ; us, for in ! 
Hiapee, in October, 1877, ,8ii in. mui fell! 
in two days; in Nor ember, ,46 in. in one 
day; in Oetol-i, 1H7N, llm; and hi 
(J elobei, I.S71I, .ti;l ill, fell The that 
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It will bo observed that in tho average 
of tho year it raiu# about uio- day in the 
week—not all day, hownia. The most 
days iu unv one month pi-i lidf u.< 
day* in February, 1878 Tfi-l was a very 
wot month and touched tin id. • pi-val. ut 
of six montliH of our year But the table 
show# that the uwrago f.»r the i .my *ix 
months i* 49 days, ami many ,d tin *<• .lay# 
art only showery. On half uf > ... the 
■tin nhiuiui brightly pm! of tho day P- f- i 
the fAln# APB don«i, however, we be ■ in I . 
wish for the dry *•-m again. 
During the rainy m 
| dim I mg is done Hindi 
barley, oalx. etc., an- «owt 
la r to January, nml bami 
June S me y i ai# the ■ > 
veara the blest i* tho b 
Ui-uvier runs stop imly 
gram u I* «t. \\ (ion thu 
hold on tub the early grm 
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bIiovvi i m the Full of lH7il was October ys, 
afUi wards add a Vl „ , „ T ’* ,, ''- v ! •" IM77 - Ot'bd... Stl*; in |S7». about Oc 
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