The Arizona sentinel., 1897-10-02

 April. The same reports show the highest md lowest temperatures, averaged for eight years, at the same place, as follows: For November 7Sa degrees and F degrees December 7312 degrees and 36H degrees, January 6511 11a degrees and 92 degrees, Feb ruary 7IH degrees and 35H de rees' March Sl1a degrees and fl degrees and April SG1l degrees and 46 degrees. The nights throughout the winter are apt to be cool enough for open wood tires, and tor blankets. Half the time an overcoat IS not needed during the day, but 1t Is never prudent for stranger to be without one at hand.
 The atmosphere is singularly clear, tome and dry. 1 have never seen It clearer anyw here in the world. It seems to nave about the same bracing and exhilaratIng oualities as the air of the Great Sahara ln Northern Africa. or of the deserts about Nount Sinai. in Arabia Petraea. It IS much drier than m the parts ef Morocco, Alqiers or Tunis usually visited, and drler than any part of the Valley of the Nile north of the First Cataract. It seems to me about the same in quality as the air on the Nile between Assouan and Wady- Halfa, but somewhat cooler.
 ACTUAL HUMIDITY.
 This is extremely slight, everywhere Tn Arizona, as compared with any eastern climate in the United States. The air Is driest on the high mesas, remote from snowclad mountains or forests, and In the desert valleys, where no considerable lrrl' cation has been begun. Wherever lrrlga- ton is carried on on large scale, the percentage of humidity in the atmosphere must be somewhat increased, although t( an eastern visitor it is scarcely perceptible The same Government observations al ready cited show relative humidity, d Phoenix or Tucson, averaged for weeks from morning and evening readings, at les than half the usual humidity on dry day in New York. General Greedy, in pub lication from the Weather Bureau, gav' the normal weight of aqueous vapor Tn thu
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 RAIN.
 Showers, and indeed heavy rams ar liable to occur in every month of the year but the actual number of rains seems to al eastern visitor strangely small. Th average rainfall in Southern Arizona, a shown by the Government observations, Il but S11a inches per year.
 ATTITUDES.
 ItIsa striking advantage offered by Arizona that, with the same general con ditions as to temperature and dryness air, the physician is able to select nearl! any altitude he may desire. Thus, asth matic sufferers can find almost the SC; level at Yuma, or an altitude of only thousand feet at Phoenix, or of only 2,4O' at Tucson. Others, who find no objection to greater elevations, can choose between Prescott or Fort Whipple, 5,4OO; Flag staff, 6,SO0,; the Sulphur Spring Valley, o Fort Grant, 4,200; Fort Huachuca. 4,SO0 or Oracle, about 4,00O.
 IS IT PLACE FIT TO LIVE IN!
 This depends on what one expects in huge, parsely settled Territory of mount aims and deserts. The man who looks fo either the beauty or the seductive excite ment of Monte Carlo will not find it. A little will he find the historic remains o the cosmopolitan attractions of Egypt; no could he reasonable expect the amusement and luxuries of our own Eastern cities. Tn people of Arizona are still chiefly busy i the pioneer work of subduing it to tn residence and uses of civilized man. Bu it has two transcontinental lines ot railwa a with numerous feeders; it has fast mails and rival telegraph lines, and Is throbbln with the intense life of the splendid West
 The two principal towns in the south ern portion, chiefly sought for their climati advantages, are Phoenix and Tucson. Fac of them has ten thousand inhabitants o more. They have the electric light, tele phones, trolley cars, plenty of hotels banks, bookstores, good schools, churches an occasional theatrical performance, some times lecture or 6 circus, often hors race, and, in the spring. thorough curious and interesting ''iesta. For tn cest. people must take their amusement with them. Good horses are abundan and cheap, and there are plenty of COW boys-the genuine article-to show wha horses can do. The driving for fifteen o twenty miles in almost any direction fror Phoenix, is nearly always easy. The road are apt to be dusty; but there IS one well sprinkled drive of six or eight miles; ant since the winds are quite regular in thei direction, it is rarely difficult to choose route or which the dust will be largel carried away frora you. The unbroke desert itself is often as easy to drive owe as an Eastern highway, and the whol valley is paradise for bicyclers, or eques trians.
 CAN ONE LIVE CoMFoRTABLY?
 That again depends on what you expect You cannot have the luxuries of our Ney York houses out there, unless you buil one. ny tho varietv of Our New NOrl