Arizona republican., 1896-11-28

the r6Slu6uC6 dHu uses u lNlllZeu man. But it has two transcontinent- al lines of railway, with numerous feeders, and rival telegraph lines, and is throbbing with the intense life of the splendid west.
 The two principal towns in the southern portion, chiefly sought for their climatic advantages, are Phoenix and Tucson. Each of them has ten thousand inhabitants or more. They have the electric light, telephones, trolley cars, plenty of hotels, banks, book stores, good schools, churches, an occasional theatrical performance, sometimes a lecture or circus, often l a horse race, and, in the spring, thor i oughly curious and interesting ''fes- ta." For the rest, people must take their amusements with them. Good l horses are abundant and cheap, and ] there are plenty of cowboys-the gen. uine article-to show what horses can do. The driving for fifteen or twenty miles in almost any direction from Phoenix, is nearly always easy. The roads are apt to be dusty; but there is one well-sprinkled drive of six or eight miles; and since the winds are quite regular in their direction, it is rarely difficult to choose a route on which the dust will be largely carried away from you. The unbroken desert itself is of ten as easy to drive over as an eastern highway, and the whole valley is a paradise for bicyclers, or equestrians.
 CAN ONE LIVE COMFORTABLY? That again depends on what you ex- pect You cannot have the luxuries of our New York houses out there, unless you charter refrigerator car. But there are hotels with almost as much frontage as the Waldorf and, like everything else in the territory ex- cepting the mountains and the deserts, they are new. There are boarding houses of more kinds than one; and brick cottages of eight orSten rooms can occasionally be rented. Better than any of them, for the man with the energy and the pluck to take it, is a tent on the desert; and he who knows how to camp out' with comfort through September in the Adirondacks can camp out in Arizona through the winter.
 can camp out in Arizona through the
 
 winter.
 As to food there is plenty, and it is good. The alfalfa fields of the Salt River valley are the fattening ground for the great cattle ranges of the ter ritory. From there the markets of Los Angeles and even of Denver are largely supplied. Good beef, mutton and poultry are plenty and cheap. Quail, ducks and venison from the vii cinity can also be had. Vegetables and fruits are abundant in their season and sometimes the season is a long one. It is the one country have lived in where strawberries ripen in the open air ten months in the year. I have had them on my table, fresh picked from the open garden at Christ mas.
 IS TT A LAWLESS COUNTRY?- The man who goes to any considerable Arizona town with the ideas of the southwest derived from novels, or from "The Arizona Kicker" will be greatly mystified. He will find as many churches as in towns of cores bonding size in Pennsylvania or Ohio, and probably more school houses. He will find plenty of liquor shops, too, and gambling houses, and dance houses, yet he will see little disorder unless he hunts late at night for it, and he will be apt to tind-as at Phoe- nix-a community of ten thousand people requiring in the daytime only one policeman, and hardly requiring him. During my winter there I did Cin icf, ;- streets, or half dozen drunken men all told. Mining men and an occa- sional cowboy certainly had quarrels sometimes, in the disorderly quarters at night; and there were stories of the use of the knife among Mexicans; but the visitor who went about his owr business had as little trouble as or Broadway or Chestnut street. The Pima and Maricopa Indians, who are encountered everywhere, have beer friendly with the whites for genera tions, and there isn't an Apache within some hundreds of miles,
 WHICH TOWN IS THE BEST?- Primarily that is a question for the physician, if there is a physician il the case;-if not, try them all. If { mountain region, considerable alti tude and a comparatively low tempe
 rature are desired, Prescott is in picturesque region, near a great min ing district, and has the social advan
 tage of an army post, Whipple Bar racks. Flagstaff is still higher, is il a region of dense pine forests, and il
 within hard days journey of one O the wonders of the world, the Colorado canyon. Oracle is pretty mountain
 nook, embowered in splendid liv,
 oaks, like those of California, and ii
 also near an important mining dis trict. If lower altitude and a distinct
 ly semi-tropical climate are desired