The Arizona sentinel., 1897-04-10
CAN ONE LIVE COMFORTABLY?

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 CAN ONE LIVE COMFORTABLY?
 That again depends on what you expect You cannot ha, e the luxuries of our New York houses out :here, unless you build one; or the variety of our New York markets, unless you charater refrigerator car. But there are hotels with almost as much frontage US the Waldorf; and, like everything else in the Territory excepting the mountains ard deserts, they are new. There are boarding houses of more kind. than one; and brck 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, 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 season is Q long ore. It is the one country l have lived in where straw berries ripen in the open air ten mQrths in the year. have had them on my table, fresh picked from the open garden at Chrisc0las
 BETA LAwLcas COUNTRY?
 The nlsn who goes to any considerable Arizona toyn with the idea Of the South west derived from novels, or from ''The Arizona Kicker" will be greatly mystifcd. He will ind as many churches as in towns of corresponding size in Pennsylvania pr Ohio; and probably more schoolhouses' He will find plenty of liquor-snops. too, and gambling houses, and darcehouseS, and yet he will see little disorder unless he hunts late at night for it, and he will be apt to Gud-as at Phoenix--a community Of ten thousand people requiring ih the day ytime only one policeman, and hardly requiring him. During my winter there 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 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. 1 WHICH TOWN IS Tile BEST?
 1 Primarily that is question for the phy stefan, if there is a physician in the case { if not, try them al. If mountain region, considerable altitude and comparatively l low temperature is desired, Prescott is in picturesque region, near q great mining districts. and has the social advaAtage of an army post, whipple Barracks. Flag staff IS still higher, is in d region of dense pine forests, and is within hard day $ journey of one of the wonders of the world the Colorado Canyon Oracle is pretty mountain nook, emboe cred ill splendid live oaks, like these of California, and is also near all important mining district ! T. lower a'fjtrde and distinctly semi : .:raic.ial.fe .:s aeired, the three naces mos Ea.v f0 B. cra~i!a~od ara Vuma,