The Arizona sentinel., 1874-05-02
OUR eL1MATE-HEALTH.

health.> With it, though the world may go. wrong, though dis appointment and vexation may attend our business operations, yet we have life and hope and vigor. In the battle of life, the mS.n who is blessed with perfect health, knows no such word as fail. He may be engaged in some business in the success of which
 his whole happiness seems to de-
 pend, and by some unforeseen mis-
 fortune, he may suddenly fail. and
 everything be lost. But if he still retains his health, and has a
 well ballanced mind, he will not be miserable; the world is still be-
 fore him and he can try something else, and he has no right to sit downand nope and "cry over split milk"
 But how few of us. while in the
 full enjoyment of health, realize
 its great value. But when sick. ness lays its heavy hand upon Us, when We are prostrated in the bed of languishing and pain, then oh,
 how forcibly are we reminded of the great blessing of health.
 But we cannot all enjoy perfect health, Sickness and disease pre-. vail more or less all over the world. People whose misfortune 1t has been to live in. very un- healthy localities, look around anxiously for some climate where less sickness prevails. We once lived in a town in the State of Iowa, on high, rolling beautiful prairie, where the sickness was so great that there were not enough we'll people to pay proper atten- tion to the sick and bury the dead. But what a contrast we found on the Pacific Coast, and'particularly In Arizona- -Afto-:as sosidaneo- of fourteen years in this Territory, we can say that we believe it with Southern California, is the health lest part of Gods earth. Our pure dry air carries no miasma. Fevers and epidemics cannot originate here. And as to consumption, it is not known here unless the patient brings it with him, and then if he is not too far gone, our climate alone will restore him to health.
 How many thousands of men and women are carried off by that fell destroyer, consumption, in our Eastern States. It seems to be the prevailing disease there. It h as become hereditary in thousands of families, and there is no relief or cure for it there. The hectic flush, the hacking cough, the sinking chest, the consuming lungs and the wasting body :: death is inevitable Whole fam- flies are carried off by it, genera tion after generation. And it will continue to be so until those families who are predispesed to that terrible disease move to some locality where the air is so pure that pulmonary disease can. not originate, and where the be- reditary predisposition to that di- sease would be eradicated. Here is that place, h ere is that climate. And when we " here, we do not mean Yuma alone. In speaking of a matter so important and we might say SO sacred as this, we cannot allow sectional feei.ng to sway us. The truth is, Yuma IS about the centre ofa great belt Lf extending some fourl hundred miles East and West | from this centre, that possess a climate of wonderful purity and as has been amply proven, an at- having peculiar healing properties for diseased lungs. Yu. ma has the advantage of being on the bank of the Colorado xiver, and has regular steam comm1ni- cation with San Francisco, thus, anabiing invaiids to reach here vifhout the faiigIe incident to a