The Arizona sentinel., 1897-06-26
CAN ONE LIVE COMFORTABLY?

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 markets, unless you cbarater a refrigerator car. But there are hotels with almost as much frontage as the Waldorf; and, like everything else in the Territory excepting There are boarding houses of more kinds than one; and bl1cll 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, js to tent on the desert; and he who knows how to ''camp out" with comfort through Septcm- Der Tn the Adiroudacks can camp ont in Arizona througl 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 cf 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 I have lived in where strawberries ripen in the open air ten months in the year. l have had them on my table, fresh picked from the open garden at Christmas
 ISITA LAWLEss 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 mystiied. 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-ahops. 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 FhoeniX--a community Of ten thousand people requiring in the day5irae only one policeman, and hardly requiring him. During my winter there l did not see a single disturbance in the streets, Or half dozen drunken men, all told Min ing men and an occasional CON boy 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 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 an Apache within some hundreds of miles.
 WHICH TOWN Is Tue BEST?
 Primarily that is question for the phy- sician, if there is physician in the case if not, try them all. If a mountain regicn, considerable altitude and comparatively low temperature is desired, Prescott is in picturesque region, near a great mining districts, and has the social advantage of an army post, whipple Barracks. Flag staff IS still higher, is in region of dense pine forests, and is within hard days journey of one of the wonders of the world, the Colorado Canyon. Oracle is a pretty mountain nook, embowered in splendid live oaks, like those Of California, and is also near an important mining district. If lower altitude and a distinctly semi tropical climate are desired, the three places most likely to b. considered are Yuma. Tucson and Phoenix The first is near the sea level; is the warmest and probably the driest of the three, has the least population, and the smallest provision for visitors. Tucson is the oldest town in the Territory. and, after Santa Fe, perhaps the oldest in the Southwest. Its adobe houses give it Mexican look, and are thoroughly comfort- able. Its newer houses are of q handsome building stone, found ia the vicinity. The Territorial University is here, and it was formerly the caDital. Its elevation being more than double that of Phoenix, it is some0 nat co,,er, and as there is next to no irrigation near~it, the air is a little drier. Phoenix Is the centre of the greatest irriga- tion in the Territory. The country for miles around smiles with green fields, cover ed with almost countless herds of cattle, and it is everywhere shut in by low mount aims. It is the Territorial capital, has the Government Indian School, the Territorial Lunatie Asylum, and other institutions, oT,1 tba ho Like Tucson, it has its occasional wind and sand storms-perhaps not quite so often. At either place visitors who know how to adapt themselves to circumstances can be entirely comfortable, and in each they will find an intelligent, orderly, enterprising and most hospitable community. They will find country full of, mines, full of rich agricultural lands, abounding in cattle and hor.es in vineyards and orchards and the of very successful orange groves "a country, in fact, as full oI promise for hardy and adventurous men now as Cclf9g- nia was in the,fitties. Above all, tt ha-.I beer their lot to search for health n !ar countries, they will revel in the luxury Of being in their own land. among their own within easy reach Of their friends by teiosrapa or r1il, and iu 8 climate as good of It's kind as any in the world.
 LANDS A1yo SOILS.
 The lands of Yuma County comprise the river bottoms and valleys aud the uplands or mesas The bottom ands moister and slightly mere fertile if, indeed, it is possible to mike comparisons where all are wonderfully productive and prolific The uplands or mesas warmer and, perhaps, lightly for better Ee cultivation 1.-the citrus fruits