Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-07-07
ATENDERFOOT'S EXPERIENCE
The Impressions an Eastern Gentleman Received in Arizona During
 Recent Visit.

Mir s. c. Boucher, who recently visited the Sample mines near Dud- leyville in this.county, has given an ac- count of his Arizona experience in letter to the New York Home Journal and reproduced in the Easton, Pa, Free Press of recent date, from which the following extract is taken:
 The climate of these districts of southern Arizona or say, Pima, Pinal, Yuma, Maricopa, Gila, Graham and Cochises counties is for nine, months, or from September to June, the finest for all and all in the world. The re- maining three months can be served just as well by going into the noun tains. It is equable dry, pure and sunny. The humid air from the coast, nor the cold winds from snowy ranges, nor malarial air from swampy valleys sweep over it. It seems to me that anyone out of health with throat, lung, catarrhal or asthmatic trouble, with any foundation at all for re- covery, can hereabout find his para disc
 Ross Browne, the veteran traveller, says "Its climate in winter is finer than that of Italy. It would scarce be possible to suggest an improvement l never experienced such exquisite Christmas weather as we enjoyed dur ing our sojonrn."
 MT. Patrick Hamilton words 1t this way: Arizona is blest with one of the healthiest climates OF the Ameri- can continent. She has brighter skies, a purer air, more invigorating atmosphere, more lovely, cloudless days, more brilliant starlit nights, than any like division of the great republic She possesses a climate suitable to all constitutions, ranging from the soft, seml-trOpic mildness of the south, to the cool bracing air of the north. Every breeze waited across her noun tains, valleys, and plains, bears upon its wings health, strength, vigor of mind and body. In the pure, dry at mosphere Of its mountains and wales diseases are unknown, and beneath its glorious skies man can camp in the open air every month of the year and gather new life and strength from quaffing deep draughts of the ozone which fills mountain, plain and table ! land"
 This has something of fourth-of- July and d-good-will-tow- ards-all-mankind ring about it, yet can indorse what these writers say and more. do not know how an in valid would feel ill it, but for well man it is delight to exist in it. It raises the spirit and arouses an increas- ed hunger. And here comes in the difficulty. A man wants something more than climate for dinner. The district is new It has been scared for centuries by the raiding, treacher- ous, murderous, untamable Apaches. It is a matter of but two years since they wereFsubjugated and their power was emasculated by the transfer oi Geronimo and his chiefs to the Florida forts. Yet much cheap sympathy has got out from the east for these assass- ins, who are responsible for the torture and killing of more victims, without provocation or giving warning, than any tribe in the country. They have retarded both the industrial and the resort interests of the district
 So hotels where a fastidious taste can be content are not so thick as autumn leaves in Nallambrosa. Still there are two or three hotels in Tucson that will fairly pass muster, witt plenty of room for better ones. Rooms can also be rented in the town and bet ter meals had at the restaurants.
 The plains are not adapted to mum erous settlement, because the under ground water reservoirs availably neal the surface are infrequent. They are ten, fifteen, twenty miles apart and water is raised by steam, wind ol horse power. The industry is mainly cattle raising and the cattle trails iron large areas converge to these ranch and water stations like the spokes of 6 vast wheel
 The stock of these ranchmen mum Der from hundreds into thousands When the grasses are growing and succulent 1t is amazing how long cat tie will do without water. They ire quently will not come in for it one two, or even three weeks. l have known horses that have been wanted waited for, for two weeks, and then four days more consumed ill hunting them. This is one of the resources oi interest when dependent on them fol a trip. Sheep, owing to coyotes anc like enemies, have to be corraled al night. Some of these corrals are a mile square, and water is piped tC them as far as four miles. These ranchmcn are from all parts of this and most other civilized countries, anC are in the main an enterprising and educated class, who have settled there for their health or to make money anC they mostly win both.
 They are hospitable, and their hos pitality has the grace of sincerity. They have not accommodations fo many, but they will not refuse frien( or stranger, and they who for healtl or pleasure, find winter harbor il one of these semi-tropical ranches ar, indeed as well off as this world cal make them. Independent of the over worked seeking rest, I have met thos suffering from catarrhal, asthmatic throat and lung troubles who have tried all the noted localities from tn Pacific to the Atlantic, North, South and Europe, Australia, and the tropi islands. They are emphatic for Arizo na and their staying there vouches fo 5 their opinion. The reason for it lie in what I have before indicated. With decent nutrition, pedestrian horse back or carriage exercise, tn climate can be depended upon as