The Arizona sentinel., 1881-08-27
A LETTER OF INQUIRY.

" VO thO Lbdby ou NouGnS SCO hO claim for Yuma, as a health re- sort.
 Post-Master, Yuma, Arizona:
 DEAR SIR:-Will you please be kind enough to answer the fol- lowing questions, or give them to good physician aud request him to answer it. 1 desire to come to your place to live.
 Do you have any fogs during the rainy season, or is it overcast and cloudy much of the time dur ing that season?
 Is it cloudy, overcast or foggy during the other seasons?
 What is the elevation of your town, and do you have any mala- ria?
 Do you have heavy dust storms?
 Do you have any cold, harsh winds from the gulf, or from any other sources?
 Is your climate favorable for pulmonary diseases, such as con- sumption and bronchitis?
 Can suitable and com fortable buildings be obtained, and, if so, at what price?
 About what is the temperature during the winter months?
 Please be kind enough to reply and oblige. Respectfully,
 LUTHER $. FEEK.
 The first question asked is as to fogs, which are 50 rare here as to be almost phenomenal. Their average occurrence is about four times in ten years: that is, about four mornings in ten years upon which fog is perceptibIe. There hardly ever occurs a day or time in which the whole sky is covered with clouds. Just at present, which is Our rainy sea- son, there are scarcely any clouds. Last month we had one-ffth of an inch rainfall, four days upon which rain fell, but no day at all that could be called thoroughly cloudy. With this state of things during the rainy season, it is easy to see that the sky will be equally as clear, if not clearer, during the dry season. It is trite but true saying, that you cannot get blood out of turnip, and Moses was the only person ever known to get water out of stone. It is just as impossible to find anything of the nature ot malaria around Yuma. There is no moisture in the atmosphere, no vegetation to decay, no stag nant water-nothiug that in the nature of things will produce ma laria. Our altitude is about 24O feet. We have, during the win ter months, an occasional wind storm, which carries with 1t considerable sand. This, of course, is disagreeable while it lasts; but the benefits of them are perceptib!e as soon as they are gone. They have the effect of purifying the atmosphere, the same as rain does in other eli mates, and are quite infrequent. We have absolutely no cold, harsh winds. Last month the greatest velocity attained by the wind was g miles per hour:-all this, too, during our stormy sea- son. If dry atmosphere, even temperature, absence of strong winds, and almost perpetual sun shine are indications that a eli mate is favorable to consumptive people, we claim that there is no place III the world to equal Yuma. We have to-day many examples of the benefits derived from this climate, in the form Of healthy, robust men, who came here with health impaired. We are happy to state that there are very few empty houses in Yuma. How ever, the spirit of progress that pervades the whole Territory will not long allow visitors to be without proper accommodations. We have one comfortable hotel, and others will be erected as soon as business demands them. The rent charged for houses here is from $15 to $20. In our last weeks issue we publish ed table complied from the Signal Service reports, which gave the temper ature for four months during last Wiutsr. Aceordipg 10 that state