The Arizona sentinel., 1895-02-23

claim of the residents here that this is the ideal climate for suf- ferers from throat and lung trou- bles; and this is why the little town is full of such sufferers at present. Some great tales are told of the cures wrought of pulmonary troubles. People are introduced to you, healthy enough looking, who came here to die of bronchitis and consumption, and who claim to have found complete relief. A few days since l was talking with one of these consumptives. He weighs now 250 pounds, and was telling me how he had grown 100 tons of alfalfa hay on eight acres of land in a year (seven successive crops, under irrigation.)
 Furthermore, this dryness of air is the reason why the great, heat of the climate is not felt more severe ly than it is and why sunstroke is unknown in the region. There is no doubt about it, they have heat enough and to spare in Southern Arizona. The records of the United States signal station locat- ed here show that, just as they do the other meteorological phenomena, above quoted.
 One of the first things that inn presses the visitor is the prepara- tion made on every hand to ward off as far as possible the effects of the rays of this tropical sun; the double roofs on the better class of houses, the abundance of porches and railways, and, most typical of all, the Summer bedrooms" :" These summer bedrooms are sim ply board floors, built out in the yards, surmounted by light frame work, the latter covered over with cheese cloth to keep out mosquitoes. Yuma moves it's bed out of doors about June 1, and it is to such places that it moves it. As re- gards the airiness of such an ar engagement there can be no ques- tion, but as to privacy there might be difference of opinion. How ever, as between privacy and dis comfort, the former has to give in.
 CLOUDLEss SKIES THE RULE.
 For three months in the year the natives admit that their weather is 6 trife too hot for comfort-at cer- tain periods of the day. For the other nine months they claim the finest climate on earth. Now, as to this famous heat. The highest temperature recorded by the signal service here in it's twenty years of existence is 118 degrees. This of course, in the shade. What it was in the sun would not be safe to predict. And there are plenty of days all through the summer sea- son when the mercury hangs over and about 100. The skies are cloudless (Yuma has an average of 279 perfectly clear days per year), and there is nothing to interfere Vith the sun in his efforts to keep steadily at work. One day is very like another; but on the other hand, and as compensation, thereis change of some 28 degrees between day and night temperat- ures, and a difference of some 30 degrees in what is called the "sen- sible temperature" that IS, the de gree of heat which is actually felt. So, if the thermometer showed 118 degrees of heat, t is claim ed that only about 88 degrees would be felt, This is the official estimate. In Washington, to make an example of the opposite, every degree is felt-and sometimes more. At any rate, by these two kinds of thermometric change life is made more bearable during the summer and for portions of it not unpleas- ant.
 There is usually a morning or two every year when Yuma ex- periences a degree of cold sufficient to form frost, not by any means 2. killing frost, but enough to show 8 trace. The low temperatures are of shorter duration than at any other point of which there is record.
 So you have the two extremes of the temperature here. The mean for the year is about 73 degrees,