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.
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