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Show T!ta Two Climates of California. There have been forty miles of enow-sheds enow-sheds on tho line of the Central Pacific railroad in the high Sierra these many years. At this altitude, or at the height equal to the summit of Mount Washington, Washing-ton, in New Hampshire, tho snow in such exceptionable winters as this is decidedly de-cidedly troublesome, to tho railroad people. peo-ple. From the vicinity of Mount Shasta north for nearly a hundred miles, tlio Know falls every winter. Oneo in twenty years the snow at the highest altitude falls on the mountains to such a depth as is found there this winter. California has both a winter and a spring climate at the same time. While the mountains havo been literafly buried in the snow and railway trains have had a bard time in getting through the drifts, and many cattle have perished in altitudes where in ordinary winters they find open pastures, pas-tures, especially in the valleys, among the mountains, it has actually been spring for 700 miles along tlio coast, and inland until an altitude exceeding 1,600 feet has been reached, for tlio last three months, or since the early rain's began. The grass in many places is a foot high. Famished cattle' have been sent down from the ranges in the mountains to feed in the' most luxuriant pastures. Citrus fruit3 havo ripened, not a fcv.' specimens here and there, but train loads are now going forward to eastern markets. They are hawked by tho wagon load on the streets of this city, as large and fair as ever gladdened the eyes of dwellers in hyperborean regions. All this time millions mill-ions of ro3es have been in bloom in open gardens, and only an occasional white frost lias been seen. The citrus belt is here, and the snow is there, There is a perfect harmony between the two. San Francisco Bulletin. , : i |
