The Arizona sentinel., 1897-08-07

April. The same reports show the highest and lowest temperatures, averaged for eight years, at the same place. as follows: For November 7s% degrees and 42 degrees, December 73H degrees and 361a degrees, January 65H degrees and g degrees, Feb- ruary 7l% degrees and 351a de rees. March Sl1s degrees and Al degrees and April S61a degrees and 4G degrees. The nights throughout the winter are apt to be cool enough for open wood fires, and fo' blankets. Half the time an overcoat Is not needed during the day, but it Is never prudent for stranger to be without one at hand.
 The atmosphere is singuIarly clear, tonic and dry. 1 have never seen It clearer anyw here in the world. It seems to have about the same bracing and exhilaratiDg qualities as the air of the Great Sahara in N orthern Africa. or of the deserts about Mount Sinai, in Arabia Petraea. It is much drier than Tn the parts Of Morocco, Algiers or Tunis usually visited, and drier than any part of the Valley of the Nile north of the First Cataract. 1t seems to mc about the same in qrality as the air on tie Nile bosv cen Aesonan and N&dy' Galfa, bus some vbat cooler.
 AcyraL HUMIDITY.
 This is extreniely slight. everywhere i" Arizoua, as compared with any eastern climate in The United States. The air is ,eiriest ou the high mesas, remote from SHOW clad mountains or forests, and in the desert valleys, where no considerable irri- gaticn has been begun. Wherever irriga- tiou is carried on on a large scale, the percentage of humidity in the atmosphere must be somewhat increased, although to an eastern visitor it is scarcely perceptible. The same Government observations al ready cited show relative humidity. at Phoenix or Tucson, averaged for weeks, from morning and evening readings, at less than half the usual humidity on dry day: in New York. General Greedy, in pub lication from the Weather Bureau, gave the normal weight of aqueous vapor in the Arizona air at from lII to 1 grains per cubic foot.
 Showers, and indeed heavy rains art liable to occur in every month of the year but the actual number of rains seems to al eastern visitor strangely small. The average rainfall in Southern Arizona, q; shown by the Government closer vationa, is but S1la inches per year.
 ATTITUDES.
 ItIsa striking advantage offered by Arizona that, with the same general con titions as to temperature and dryness o air, the physician is able to select nearly any altitude he may desire. Thus, asth matic sufferers can find almost the sea level at Yuma, or an altitude of only { thousand feet at Phoenix, Or of only 2,40( at Tucson Others, who find no objection to greater elevations, can choose between Prescott or Fort Whipple, 5,400; Flag staff, 6,SO0,; the Sulphur Spring Valley, ol Fort Grant, 4.200; Fort Huachuca. 4,S00 or Oracle. about 4,C00.
 IS IT \ PLACE FIT TO LIVE IN?
 This depends on what one expects in 6 huge, parsely settled Territory of mount ains aEd deserts. The man who looks fol either the beauty or the seductive excite ment of Monte Carlo will not ind it. As little will he tipd the historic remains O, the cosmopolitan attractions of Egypt; noi could he reasonable expect the amusement: and luxuries of onr own Eastern cities. The people of Arizona are still chiefly busy 1T the pioneer work of subduing it to the residence and uses of civilized man. But it has two transcon tinentlI lines of r&ilW aY with numerous feeders; it has fast mails, and rival telegraph lines, and is throbbing with the intense life of the splendid West.
 The two principal towns in the south ern portion, chiefly sought for their climatic are Phoenix and Tucson. Each more. They have the electric light, tele- phones. trolley cars, plenty of hotels, banks, bookstores, good schools, churches. cn occlsioGai tbtatriea! performance, some tines lecture og' circus, of5eE d hulse race. aud, in the spring. thoroughly curious anl interesting "iissca.'' For the cCst, people aust take their amusemcnts v ith G.!en'. ''o"l horses ace abund2ns and cheap. aud there a.e pre"ty of cow genuine arSic.e--to show what iIorses 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; bat there IS one we'll sPrink led dcivc of six or eight miles; and since the winds axe quite regular in their Erection, 1t is rarely difficult to choose a route or which the dust will be largely carried away frcrA you. The uubroken lesert itself is often as easy to drive over as an Eastern highway, and the whole valley is paradise for bicyclers, or eques- trians.
 CAN ONE LIVE COMFORTABLY?
 That again depends on what you expect. or cannot have the luXur:es of our New York houses out there, unless you build one; or tho variety Of our New York unless you charater refrigerator car. But there are hotels with almost as much frontage as the Waldorf; and, Ike everything else in the Territory excepting the mountains and dese,ts, they gre new.