The Arizona sentinel., 1897-01-23
ARIZONA.

is every promise of day of great pros perity and permanent upbuilding just be- fore her. The impulse of a new and ener- gizing hope is visible everywhere among her people, while the cumulative effect of many things, which made but small i'm pression as they transpired singly, is now commanding for her full share of atten- tion and interest abroad among home seekers and capitalists. 4 lively competition has sprung up for the possession of things which have hereto fore gene a-begging for ownership. There is scramble for franchises. Nothing more surely indicates great industrial awaken ing than this. The rates of interest are falling to moderate figures. Nothing more surely indicates confidence and competition among the money lenders than this. Arizona has reached that climacticer period which every western state has ex- perienced sometime in its history when. after long and weary struggle and doubt with each side of the balance first up and then down, the clouds of despondency have suddenly rolled away, and a sunburst of energizing hope has thrilled the droop- ing spirits of the people to greater and ! braver endeavor than before. For the last twelve years the subsistence
 
 pletion of two transcontinental lines of railroad across her territory-Arizona has rather dropped out of public attention, but in that time she has been quietly ac- cumulating fund of substantial wealth and force of moral character which qualify her now to rise up and take her destiny in her own hands. The population of Arizona is Mexican This is mistake of great importance from the moral point of view. There is but one considerable center of Mexican population in the territory, the city of Tucson; and l even there it is not by any means at pres- ent the predominating element. It think it is certain that Arizona has not to-day nearly so large a Mexican population as Colorado and not above one-tenth as much as New Mexico >"Fitz- Mac," in Denver News.
 WHY IMMIGRANTS SHOULD COME TO YUMA COUNTY.
 Because the climate is perfect.
 Because the soil is fertile and prolific.
 Because land is abundant and cheap.
 Because home can be made with little labor.
 Because so great variety 6f products can be grown
 Because the yield is large and the prices always remunerative.
 Because life is a luxury in land where the sun shines every day.
 Because there are chances for poor man which he can never hope to find in older countries.
 Because the country is advancing and property values are increasing.
 Because, unlike Southern California it does not require a small fortune to secure a piece of land.
 Because capital does not block all the av- enues to wealth, nor crowd the poor man to the wall
 Because Uncle Sam has yet many farms in Yuma county waiting for occupants.
 Because churches, schools, newspapers and railroads are fast developing the moral and material elements of the Territory.
 Because good land is becoming scarce, and if you don't catch on now, your last chance will soon be gone.
 Because the country is one of the few regions of the Uuited States that yields the products of the temperate and semi-troeic zones.
 Because the worker receives a fair com pensation for his labor, and the 'rustler' has field for the display of his energy and en- terprise.
 Because there are neither blizzards or tornadoes, earthquakes nor inundations, snow-storms nor cyclones.
 Because the vast and varied resources of the country are yet to be developed.
 Because the wealth of it's mines, its farm. ing valleys, and grazing lands, will yet build up great and prosperous county;
 Because man can make livelihood her, with less labor than in any other part of the United States.
 Because thefe is health in every breeze, and strength and vigor under its cloudless skies.
 Because the settler need not spend a life time in felling trees and grubbing out stumps.
 Because vegetation is so rapid that in two years the home is surrounded by growth of trees and shrubs which would require five years to develop in colder cline.
 Because fortunes here await the venture some, and health welcomes the afflicted.
 Because the country has brilliant future and you want to be in the ''swim."
 Because in it's pure, dry inyigorating air, epidemic diseases cannot live or gerninate.
 Because its people are generous, liberal, hospitable and progressive.