The Wonders

of

place among the creative art centers in the world. That the harbor of San Francisco is one where the fleets of all nations may easily ride at anchor at one time is here noted, as well as the later significant fact that the gold product of all the fifty-seven counties of California, for the year 1902, over $17,000,000, far exceeded the total gold product of the Klondike since its discovery. It is well worth noting, too, that whereas in 1890 the total orange shipments east filled only 4,016 carloads, in 1901-1902 they were considerably over 24,000 carloads, a contrast that tells wonders of the industry and the pluck of the orange growers of the State.

To the stranger, California, so vast and so varied, is Out-of-Doors. bewildering. Few, even of old residents, know one-half of its attributes or its charms. Its very sun and sky and air fascinate. Frowning cliffs and towering trees all speak of the wonders of out-of-door living. The new-comer should form a fairly definite idea of what he desires in home surroundings, and then seek for his ideal. Its attainment is sure; he has only to decide. If he does not care for the prize-winning oranges of Porterville, Palermo, Redlands, or Riverside, he may prefer the matchless apples of Watsonville or of the half-way-totop Sierra, of Nimshew or Susanville, or of the other mountain regions. If he cares naught for mountains, let him seek the valleys; if aweary of landscape let him seek the never-tiring sea.

Why not Come this Way, too.

California

ditions.

The publishers of this volume-The California Promotion Committee-are men who believe in all California, who know its resources, are sure of its possibilities, and wish others to share their knowledge, and come to this winterless land to live and prosper in never-ending thankfulness for climatic comfort.

Given sunshine and spring-like weather through all Winter Con- the winter months, and Nature comes close to doing the rest. To the resident or the tourist in California in winter the question is not so much what to do as when. In the infinite variety of recreations, of diverse sports, of many things to do in the open air, the seeker for home or

for health or diversion is bewildered, never bored. Springtime ever suggests to the man weary of snow and stoves all sorts of cheery things.

The

-new grass pointing out the way

For flowers to follow everywhere,

suggests tramps afield, botanizing tours or early wild flower hunts. That feeling begins in California's November, for then the new grass is sprouting, and tips of early grain will soon show through the summer-fallowed soil. An odd but welcome impression it is to travel westward to the Pacific, leaving snowflakes in Boston or Chicago, and to run down the Sierra slopes into California's winterspring. There's a fragrance of upturning soil and the meadow lark's thrilling notes-never a suggestion of winter. The traveler has the feeling of having skipped at least five pages of the almanac!

Edenic

Charm of

It is immaterial—and this is something all tourists and health seekers do not realize-whether the seeker for Climate. comfort and sport in winter enters California by the central or southern routes of travel, for the soft air of alluring days will greet him at both points. There are nooks, both north and south, where winter living is idyllic. Thousands of people to-day know of the palms and orange groves of Pasadena, where ten might tell of the attractions, for example, of St. Helena, or Woodland, or Modesto, five hundred miles away to the north. Yet there are palms and oranges and olives and pomegranates and a wealth of tropic fruit and tropic air in and around those other points. And these places-St. Helena and Pasadena and Woodland and Modesto and Riverside-merely stand as types of sunny winter resorts where the snow-weary may gather, and sport or idle the hours away.

The stranger to California is to bear in mind that climatic conditions are more a matter of east and west than of north and south. Go to the Sierra in winter and one may get all the sleigh rides he wants, but nearer the sea coast, in sunny valleys, the air is tempered, and a tropic clime is there.

Golf is the ideal winter sport for Californians. "You

Where Air is

Tempered.

Plenty to

Кеер

Busy.

Keep see, there's so much outdoors here!" a golf devotee halfSportsmen apologetically explained. Not a hotel of any note but has golf links of inspiring dimensions. The links at Coronado, at Redlands, at Riverside, at Los Angeles, at Santa Barbara, at Del Monte, at San Rafael, at San Jose, at Paso Robles, and on the big Presidio reservation at San Francisco, are among the best known. But the great game has taken fast hold on people devoted to athletics and sunshine sports, and new links in out-of-the-way spots are being laid out every day. Golf, tennis, polo, wheeling, fishing, walking, riding, and all the out-of-dooring one can imagine, including gardening in manifold forms, are here for the nature lover, and the sport enthusiast to do and to dare. If he wander about the State, to any of the big first-class hotels that are fast dotting the landscape of every tourist town, he will find all the accessories of rest and recreation. "This is a sportsman's paradise!" exclaimed a well-known eastern man a few years ago, as he stood beside a Sierra lake in September and pulled out the rosy-tinted rainbow trout by the dozen. If he had waited until winter he might have made a similar exclamation, not beside that Sierra lake, perhaps, but elsewhere within this State of continuous charm. Climate Because California winters are ideal, the State has Summer. gained justly a reputation for cheerful comfort that draws

Winter and

thousands annually from regions of wind and ice and snow. Why sit beside steam pipes or hug coal stoves when you can bask in the sunshine under an orange tree? But do all seekers for comfort and health realize that California summers are idyllic? Here is opportunity for escaping from overpowering summer heat as surely as later the California. trip means the dodging of icicles and snowballs. Here is the paradise of the camper and the sportsman, for no rainstorms will come to upset outing calculations. Here is the most equable of climates, joined with chances to meet Nature at first hand, in mountain canyons or big tree groves. Here are Sierra lakes so filled with trout that a cubic water ordinance ought to be enforced, and here are hundreds of mineral springs, shown by medical science to be not only equal, but superior, to the famed Nature

ON THE HEADWATERS OF THE KLAMATH RIVER, HUMBOLDT COUNTY, AMID WHICH ARE FRUIT FARMS AND SMALL CLEARINGS. WHILE

SHOWING THE VAST TIMBER TRACTS OF THIS REGION. ALL ABOUT SPORTSMEN MAY FIND RECREATION.

Good-bye to Big Fuel Bills.

fountains of the old world. Surely California as a summer resort takes second place with no region on earth.

Conversation about climate is usually a sedative; figures tell best the truths of air and temperature, and later on the records of government weather officials will speak for themselves. For prospective settlers as well as tourists there is pleasure in the thought of climatic comfort. It's an old story to Californians, but to men who have endured blizzards and have paid fuel bills big enough to endow a college, the subject has fascinating interest. Libraries could be filled in telling pleasure seekers of the attractive resorts of California. San Francisco with its Cliff House, and its picturesque harbor and cool air, is not to be slighted as a seaside resort. Then there are Coronado, Santa Cruz, Aptos, Capitola, Del Monte, Pacific Grove, Bolinas, Pescadero, San Luis Obispo, Pismo Beach, Santa Barbara, San Buenaventura, Santa Monica, Long Beach, Santa Catalina Island and Newport and many others. All Kinds of Of mineral springs there are enough in the Sierra Springs. region and in Lake, Napa and Sonoma counties to drive

Mineral

Wonders of the

Mountains.

Germany out of business could their health-restoring qualities once become known to the many sufferers who annually seek the waters of Europe. The Shasta, Aetna, Napa Soda, Paso Robles, Santa Ysabel, Paraiso, Congress, Bartlett, Lytton, and Highland Springs, and those around Santa Barbara, are among the best known.

Among the big trees of the State the tourist or recreation-seeker ever finds instruction and pleasure. In the Mariposa, Calaveras, Grant and Giant forests, in the Big Basin or Sempervirens Park of Santa Cruz, the lover of Nature may wander and wonder in endless enjoyment.

And then the mountains! From Shasta to San Jacinto, from Diablo to Whitney, they are ever new and ever alluring to the admirer of Nature's rugged handiwork. With Yosemite always first, and Hetch Hetchy and Tehipite, and the canyons of Kings and Kern rivers, and Lake Tahoe and its marvels, and the Truckee and McCloud rivers, there is wide choice for the man who oves the mountains. At Mt. Hamilton and Echo moun