The Arizona sentinel., 1897-05-22
CAN CINE LIVE COMFORTABLY?


 That again depends on what yoa expect. You cannot have the luxusies of cgr New York houses out there, unless you build enc; or tLe variety Of our New York markets. unless you charater q refrigerator car. But there are hotels with almost as much frontage as the Waldorf; and, like everything else in the Territory excepting the mountains and deselts, they are new. There are boarding houses of more kinds than one; and brick cottages Of eight or ten rooms can occasinalIy 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 in Arizona through 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 sc1son ia a long one. u is the one country I have lived in where straw berries ripsn in the open air ten months in the year. I have had the1n on my table, fresh picked from the open garden at Christmas
 IsJrA LAWLEss COUNTRY:
 The man who goes to any considerable ! AIizonaetown 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-snops. 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 ind-as at Phoenix--a community of ten thousand people requiring in the daytime only one policeman, and hardly requiring s him. During my winter there l did not see single disturbance in the streets, or half dozen drunken men, all told. Min ing men and an occasional cowboy certainly had quarrels, sometimes, in the disorderly quarters at night, and there were stories of the use of the knife among Mexicans; but tLe 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 foragenerations, and there isn't ar Apache within some hundreds or miles.
 WHICH TOWN IS TIC BEST?
 Primarily that is question for the phy- eioian, if thsro is physician in the case # not, try them all If 9 mountain F gjoQ, considerable altitude and a c1l-, ata,i,aiy low temperature is desired, Prescott is iu a picturesque region, near great mining , districts, and has the social advantage oi an army post, whipple Barracks. Flag staff IS still higher, is in a region of deus. pine forests, and is within hard day: : joa-ney of one Of the wonders Of the world r the Colorado Canyon, Oracle is a pretty mountain nook, emjowcrad i'll spLendi, live oaks, like those of California, and i also near an important mining district If lower altitude and distinctly semi a tropical climate are desired. the three place
 most likely to b, considered aye Yuma