The Arizona sentinel., 1897-02-06
CAN ONE LIVE COMFORTABLY?

CAN ONE LIVE COMFORTABLY!
 That again depends on what you expect. You cannot have the luxuries of our New York houses out there, unless you build one; or the variety of our New York markets, unless you charater refrigerator car. But there are hotels with almost as much frontage as the Waldorf; and, like everyth else in the Territory excepting the mountains and deserts, they are new. There are boarding houses of more kinds than one; and brick cottages of eight or ten rooms can occasinally by rented. Bet ter than any of them, for the man with the energy and the pluck to take it, is to tent on the desert; and he who knows how to ''camp out" with comfort through Septem- | Der Tn the Adirondacks can camp out ln Arizona througI the winter.
 As to food, there is plenty, and it is good-if you can get it well cooked. The alfalfa fields of the Salt River Valley are the fattening ground for the great cattle ranges of the Territory. 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 vicinity 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 straw berries ripen in the open air ten months ill the year. I have had them on my table, fresh picked from the open garden at Christmas
 IsITA 1AwLEss COUNTRY?
 The man who goes to any considerable Arizona town with the idea of the South west derived from novels, or from ''The Arizona Kicker" will be greatly mystifed. He will find as many churches as in towns of corresponding size in Pennsylvania or Ohio; and probably more schoolhouses' He will find plenty of liquor-srops. too, and gambling houses. and dancehouses, and yet he will see little disorder unless he hunts late at night for it, and he will be apt to ] 6nd-as at Phoenix-a community ot ten thousand people requiring in the daytime only one policeman, and hardly requiring him. During my winter there 1 did not see a single disturbance i'll the streets, or half a dozen drunken men, all told. Min ino men and an occasional cowboy certainly had ouarrels, sometimes, in the disOrderly quarters at night; and there were stories of the use of the knife among Mexicansi but the visitor who went about his own business had as little trouble as on Board way or Chestnut street. The Pima and Maricopa Indians, who are encountered everywhere. have been friendly with the whites for!generations, and there isn't al Apache within some hundreds of miles.
 WHICH TOWN IS THe BEST?
 Primarily that is a question for the phy sician, if there is physician in the case if not. try them all If mountain region considerable altitude and a comparatively low temperature is desired, Prescott Is II a picturesque region, near great mining districts, and has the social advantage o an army post, whipple Barracks. Flag staff IS still higher, is in region of dense pine forests, and is within a hard day'' journey of one of the wonders of the world the Colorado Canyon. Oracle is pretty mountain nook, embowered in splendiC live oaks, like those of California. and i also near an important mining district If lower altitude and a distinctly semi tropical climate are desired, the three place most likely to bo considered are Yuma