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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 23, 1908)
THE MOUNING ASTOIUAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. I Climatic Conditions the Best in the World. I LIMATIC conditions in Oregon, and especially in and around V- Astoria, cannot be surpassed for health and agricultural pur poses in any other part of the world. To become aware of this one, needs but to consult the death records of the state and county, and to view exhibits of the state's productions. " The healthy appearance of the native Oregonians and people who have been in the state any length of time is ample proof of what the climate has done for the natives and what it will do for those who come from other parts of the country. The longevity of the pioneers of Oregon has been a noticeable feature at the yearly gathering of the old timers who crossed the plains to this rich state. The people of this section are larger, healthier and more fully developed than in anv other part of the west coast states. They are the marvel of tourists from all over the world, many of whom declare that the women, especially, of Oregon, are the handsomest and finest they have seen anywhere in their travels. The much-boasted climate of California is easily surpassed by the climate of Oregon because there are fewer changes in the atmosphere in a year. The thermometer does not reach as high a point in summer, while the winter months here are about the same as in middle California. The Japan current along the coast makes the temperature very equable. The temperature during the summer averages 60 degrees and during the winter it seldom goes below 35 degrees. The consequence is that the gradual change from summer to winter and from winter to summer is iardly noticeable. This section of the coast has the ad vantage of the inland part of the state in this respect, where the extremes are greater. The climate is a realized dream of paradise. It is exquisite beyond description or imagination. Among all the climates of the globe, from Arctic to' equatorial regions, there is nothing more gloriously perfect. It is utterly unlike the climate of Portland or Taconia, and other places within a' comparatively short distance in the same general region. No blizzards, no tornadoes, no cyclones, and no thunderstorms. No hot weather in the summer and no cold weather in the winter. There is not a day in the year when flannels and light overcoats are not comfortable, or a night, when blankets are not necessary. And then, although the latitude is the same as frigid Dakota and Nova Scotia, all the ice is manufactured artificialy, and flowers bloom in the open air all the year round. Trees and grasses are as green as living emerald in December and January, and the snowy crowns of 'Mount Hood and Mount St. Ilelen glisten white and dazzling in July and August. Nowhere on earth is there such a combination of beautiful healthy atmosphere, and rich natural advantages. The scenery includes all that is entrancing, picturesque and beauti fulmountain and valley, ocean and majestic rivers, gem-like islands, boundless forests, rugged crags and golden sands; while over all is thrown the translucent glory of a sky as divinely blue and crystalline as ever domed the verdant bowers of primeval Eden. There is not on the whole Atlantic coast, from Newfoundland to Florida, from Halifax to Dry Tortugas, a view comparable with tho sublimo swoop of the eye over the entrance to the harbor from Fort Canby. No artist could portray on canvas a tenth of the natural beauty of tho coast along the country on either side of tho Columbia, and for a hundred miles up this "Mississippi" of tho west Diseases of the human race which are fostered by tho climates of other sections are unknown here, and that scourge of the race, the "white plague" is also an unknown quantity unless an arrival from other parts comes here to regain health and strength. The ozone bragged about so much in some of the middle and southern states hits always been here in such quantities that the people are used to it and fail to herald to the world a subject which to tWnn is of littld moment when it is combined with so many natural advantages. Everything .tdvantageous to modern civilization is so common in Oregon that the people are prone to normal content. No special featuro is announced to the other parts of the country because there are so many and it is undecided which should be given the preference. Strong men and athletes arc bred in this section of the country and have gained fame in all parts of the globe. Where feats of strength. endurance and brawn are required there you will find the Oregon inn holding his own and some better in numerous contests. The working man of the western section of the state is renowned for his hardihood and staying qualities and it goes without saying that the Columbia river fishermen as a class are the healthiest and strongest on earth. The peculiar features of the Oregon climate finds its explanation partly in the topography of the country and partly from the great Japan current of hot water The Kiiro Siwo which results from two currents of heated water from the Indian Ocean j one passing through the Straits of Malacca and the China Sea, the other skirting the east coast of the Philippine Islands, at tho northern extremity of which they unite, opposite the Japan Islands. This united current again divides, its main branch tending north east, strikes the Oregon coast off the mouth of the Columbia river. The waters of this current near its southern edge is 4.3 degrees hotter than those just outside the current. This vast amount of heat is expended on tho coast line between Port Orford and Sitka. Within a variable distance of a few miles of the sea the coast range of mountains, parallel to the coast line, reaches from the Golden Gate to Vancouver Island, while to the east of this range of mountains and parallel with it runs the Cascade Range, at variable distances of from sixty to one hundred and twenty miles, and between these ranges are the Rogue River, Umpqiia and Willamette Valleys. These latter are immensely rich in agriculture, through the mildf climate and fertile soil Still further to the east are the high table lands bordering on the Columbia, John Day and Snake Rivers, whose streams water and drain this immense inland empire, while these mountain ranges give direction to the winds and prove barriers to their force. In this vast country there is a variety of climate, modified by fixed degrees of altitude, ranging from the sea level at Astoria and south to Crescent City to an elevation of 4258 feet at Little Meadows, near the Deschutes. In all this variety of position the mean annual temperature in the northern part of Oregon is 52.4 degrees. The mean annual temperature SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1908. of the southern part is the same, that of the east part of the state bein 48 degrees and that ol the west const ! degrees mean annual icmpera turo. During the summer mouths the prevailing winds aro from the north during the morning hours, but almost every afternoon a strong breeze sets in from the west, directly from the Paeillc Ocean, until nightfall, when the breeze turns buck from the east. Thus, in every twenty-four hours the winds have disturbed the malarial and septic influence, of disease germs, and so diluted them with atmospheric, cur rents that they have no influence whatever. It seems to be a fact that the western coasts of all continents have a milder climate than the corresponding eastern exposure. In fact, latitude has little to do with local temperature in Oregon. Astoria, at the mouth of the Columbia, has a mean annual temperature of 54 degrees, while a degree further north on Puget Sound has a temtera turo of 5S.! degrees. Frost never penetrates tho ground and it never snows at Astoria. The thoracic disorder arc more serious and fatal than the abdomi nal. Cholera prevails where the temperature stands at a high grade for a considerable length of time, and proves fatal where cholera germs luxuriate in a hot and unchanging atmosphere. The climate of Oregon is entirely free from this disease for the simple reason that tho germs of thitfparticu!ar form of disease cannot flourish in this mild and anti ceptio climate, with its ever-changing currents of air drawn freshly from tho mild Pacific Ocean, and mixed three times a day with the gentle breezes from the table lands and adjacent coast In the past twenty-three years no case of sunstroke, so common in eastern climates, has been recorded in Oregon. Whether there were any bfore that time is not known as no records were kept, but it k claimed by old pioneers that sunstroke in Oregon is impossible. Yellow fever is also unknown in this climate for the same reason, that is, our mild warm days arc always followed by refreshingly mA nights, which makes the climate destructive to germs, which in constantly hot hs-ali-ties, develop this remarkable fatal malady. And so it has lieon con clusively proven that the therapeutic climate of Oregon is remarkable in its effects, both as to its prophylactic agencies and its curative effects on all dsenscs peculiar to the human race. t - v wi"" - "stum; -yfr i - it j ASTORIA IN' 1812. si T3 CO a 5 es b & .25 6 I a n c a u o 0 s , 0 -'; r-' j : " i T . 1 irp V . 1 ... 'r r i ". - .. Jj --j-ii nniri d " RE HflV LISTED FOB SALE rTTTTTfTTTfTTTTTTTTTTTTf TIMBER LANDS, TARMS, OITY LOTS, MOUSES, AND ALL KINDS OF REAL ESTATE Y we 172 Tenth St., ASTORIA, ORE.
