The Arizona sentinel., 1897-09-18
ril The same reports show the highest

April. The same reports show the highest and lowest temperatures, averaged TOT eiobt years. :t the same place, as follows: For November 7S1% degrees and 4 degrees December 731S degrees and 36H degrees, January 65H degrees and 32 degrees Fe6- mary 7l% degrees and 35H de rees. March SiH degrees and Al degrees and April 861a degrees and 46 degrees. The nights throughout the winter are apt to De cool enough for open wood fires. and for blankets. Half the time an overeoat IS not needed during the day, but it Is never prudent for stranger to be without one at hand.
 The atmosphere is singularly clear, tonic and dry. I have never seen It clearer anywhere in the world. It seems to have about the same bracing and exhllaratIng oualities as the air of the Great Sahara i'll Northern Africa, or of the deserts about Mount Sinai. in Arabia Petraea. It IS much drier than in the parts of Morocco, Alqiers or Tunis usually visited, and drier 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 somew hat cooler.
 ACTUAL HUMIDITY.
 This is extremely slight, everywhere in Arizona, as compared with any eastern climate in the United States. The air Is driest on the high mesas, remote rom snowclad mountains or forests, and Tn the desert valleys, where no considerable irrl- gation has been begun. Wherever irriga- tion is carried on on 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 all 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 days 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 l 1l to grains per cubic foot
 Showers, and indeed heavy rams are liable to occur in every month of the year but the actual number of rains seems to an eastern visitor strangely small. The average rainfall in Southern Arizona, as shown by the Government observations, Is but 81a inches per year.
 ATTITUDES.
 It IS a striking advantage offered by Arizona that, with the same general con ditions as to temperature and dryness oi 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 6 thousand feet at Phoenix, or of only 2,40C at Tucson Others, who find no objection 70 z eater GtSN 1llJUo, LdH NtOOcN pSN'N~ Prescott or Fort Whipple, 5,400; Flag staff, 6,600,; the Sulphur Spring Valley, ol Fort Grant, 4,2OO; Fort Huachuca. 4,60G or Oracle, about 4000.
 IS IT PLACE FIT TO LIvE IE?
 This depends on what one expects in huge, parsely settled Territory of nounr aims and deserts. Tne man who looks fo either the beauty or the seductive excite ment of Monte Carlo will not find 1t. A little will he fpd the historic remains o the cosmopolitan attractions of Egypt; no could he reasonable expect the amusementa and luxuries of our own Eastern cities. Tn, people of Arizona are still chiefly busy 1T the pioneer work of subduing it to th' residence and uses of civilized man. Blu it has two transcontinental lines of railw ay !; with numerous feeders; it has fast mails and rival telegraph lines, and is throbbin9 with the intense life of the splendid West The two principal towns in the south ern portion, chiefly ought for their climatic advantages, are Phoenix and Tucson. Eacl of them has ten thousand inhabitants ol more. They have the electric light, tele- phones, trolley cars, plenty of hotels, banks, bookstores, good schools, churches an occasional theatrical performance. some race, and, in the spring. a thorough ly curious and interesting ''6esta." For the cest, people must take their amusement' with them. Good horses are abundant and cheap, and there are plenty of cow boys-the genuine article-to show what horses can do. The driving for fifteen ol Phoenix, is nearly always easy. The roads are apt to be dusty; but there IS one well sprinkled drive of six or eight miles; and since the winds are quite regular in theil direction, it is rarely difficult to choose . route or which the dust will be largely carried away frora you. The unbroker desert 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 You cannot have the luxuries of our New York houses out there, unless you build one; or the variety of our New YorA markets, unless you charater refrigerator car. But there are hotels with almost a. much frontage as the Waldorf; and, like everything else in the Territory excepting the mountains and deserts, they are new