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Identifier: californiasoutht00sout (find matches)
Title: California south tehachapi..
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Southern Pacific company. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (San Francisco)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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few years, when the young orchards begin to bear, the 15,000carloads of fruits of this season will be trebled. The climate possesses an annual mean temperature of about620, and there is nothing very mean about it either; indeed, it isabout right; in the dry air of the summer (but not at the coast) itwanders up to nearly a hundred degrees, with a much lower sensibletemperature; in the winter it draws the line at frosts as a whole,though in a few localities the welcome is not so warm as to forbidJack Frost from tarrying a few hours. The climate rejoices in300 sunshiny days every year; it invites you to midsummer nightsbeneath clear stars and open windows in the longer stretches ofJanuary darkness when the rose-scented air aids to pleasantdreams. It has a fraternal feeling for porches, swinging on thegate, long walks, bicycling and coaching. The genial moon thatclimbs up over the shoulder of the high mountain, shedding a sil-very light upon stretches of dark green foliage and reaches of
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white sands, smiles on many a delightful excursion and listensoften to the echo of the tally-ho. The summer days, clear andstill, watched by the cool sea breezes of the ocean that come gentlyin, if the thermometer dare but to aspire to unusual height, are inthe larger part of the country very pleasant indeed; the renown ofthe winter days has made the land one vast resort. There is no monotony in Southern California, but an alterna-tion of sunlight and shadow everywhere. 44 Hills peep oer hills and Alps on Alps arise,and yet the valleys are neither narrow nor confining, often fifteenmiles across from foothills to foothills, and broadening out nea*the ocean in great stretches of level land.This is California south of Tehachapi. In its compass Dame Nature has scattered health and pleas-ure resorts lavishly—in the pudding is no lack of plums. Bythe ocean, coast and island resorts are attractive the year round;in the summer, mountain retreats in both the canons and in thelittle valleys o

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