Arizona republican., 1896-04-25
Goes to MiIlbrae for a
Short Stay.
Impressions of His Stay in
Phoenix.
He Has Derived Much Benefit from
His Sojourn in Salt River
Valley.

rWhl1telaw Reid and family started
for southern California last evening on
the private car Mishawaka, intending
after a brief visit Ito Los Angeles and
Santa Barbara ito proceed Immediately
to Sam Francisco, and thence ito Mr.. D.
C. Mills we'll known country place,
Mi,lbrae, seventeen miles south of that
city Here they spend a month, re-
turning then, about the first week in
June Ito New York.
A reporter of The Republican found
Mr.. Reid in his car just before START
ling and asked him if he was likely ito
be seen I'm Phoenix again.
81 can't say he replied. THAT'S a
question for the doctors. If they tell
me ito come back, shall come much
more willingly than the first time,
since the place has treated me we'll in
every wary and am carrying away the
most agreeable recoIlections both of
tits people and of its clamate."
The reporter then made some re-
mark about his appearance certainly
showing that he had improved in
health while here, to which he re
piled: ooh yes, ann as strong, and so
far as 1 can myself tell am quite as
well as at amy time for ten yearspast,
with one exception. Every now and
then something reminds me THAT I am
ten years Older" The reporter then
asked Mr.. Reid whether he had mot
found the climate of the Salt River
valley more beneficial than the many
foreign climates with which he was
familiar.
"On tine whole he replied, 81 think
it lis. 1t lis certainly dryer Except
where the irrigation affects iIt) than
Egypt, and part of northern Africa or
Syria. The climates which in some
degree rival lit i'm this respect are those
of Nubia, on THE upper Mile, between
the first and second cataracbs, in The
vicinity of Wady-Halfa, the oasis of
Biskra, ON the edge of the French part
of 1.-The Great Sahara, and THE desert of
Arabia Petraea. You get a magnEfi-
cent climate in all those regions, but
YOU can't get much else. Here you can
live with the greatest comfort in your
own country among a superior class OF
your own coIuntrymen. line only
drawback is thalt the farther you push
the amazing agricultural development
of the valley the farther away from
Phoenix you push the lime of extreme
dryness which physicians seek. You
have climate which will certainly al
ways attract people with delicate
ithroats or lungs and when they come
the business they bring lis sure to be
tributary to Phoenix. But the ten
dency, as your agricultural develop
ment goes on, will probably be to send
them out ito THE adjoining foothills
Meanwhile lit is an enormous advan-
itage COR people ait the east, as well az
in Phoenix that you are so enterprls-
ing i'm extending YOUR hotel facilities. .
The reporter learned of two little
trips made by Mr.. Reid in tine Salt
River valley this week which show
how little of an invalid he is now
whatever ne may have been when he
came. Three days ago, between a
late breakfast and an early dinner, he
drove sixty miles UP the valley Ito the
Arizona dam and back and then spent
the evening entertaining his friends
The day before starting he took little
horseback ride of twenty miles.
Mr.. Reid by his personal attributes
has won many friends during his stay
i'm Phoenix, and all hope that he may
conclude Ito make this his winter home
He and Mrs Reid will especially BIZ
missed in the circle of Episcopal