Excerpt from Oregon as It Is: Solid Facts and Actual Results, for the Use and Information of Immigrants

Among the advantages Of a civilized condition Of society there can be no more powerful factor for progress and for individual comfort and happiness than a genial climate. That is claimed for this State. The State, as a whole, has nothing to lose and much to gain by a careful and intelligent examination of the meteorological conditions and a compari son with the most favored habitable sections of the common country. The climate Of Oregon is signally healthful and invigorating. The strong point is its evenness. The mean average heat Of July is 67 degrees. The mean average cold of January is 46 degrees; showing a mean deviation of only 21 degrees during the year. This compares favorably with the best climates in the United States. The violent atmospheric changes, or wide variations Of temperature, so common in the Middle, Southern and Western States. Are wholly unknown here. The summer is never made suddenly and abnormally cold - a reversal Of the season - nor suddenly and abnormally hot. The extreme cold in the valleys, during ordinary years, is, for the most part, a white frost, with a formation of ice an inch thick in exposed places. No matter how warm the days may be the nights are always cool enough to enable one to sleep soundly and refreshingly under a fair quantity Of bed clothing. There is never the heat that enervates nor the cold that produces a torpor or inability to work. The air Offers the tonic coolness needed by a man engaged in outdoor industry, while it has the mildness that is soothing and restful for his periods of relaxation. There is in the air that steady tone which is in itself an inspiration, and inviting to labor on the part of man and beast. Medium-weight woolen underwear is universally worn during the entire year. Sunstrokes are unknown. Meat may be cured and fruit dried in the sun, and the good house-wife has no worry about moisture on her windows or plastered walls.

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