The Arizona sentinel., 1897-03-06
ARIZONA.

the fact The dawn for which she has waited So long is breaking at last. Ter. is every promise of a day of great rts,-- perity and permanent upbuilding j jas- Er- fore her. The impulse of new and cue, gizing hope is visible everywhere am,I. her people while the cumulative effect C; many things, which made but small ;n pression as they transpired singly, is n,u commanding for her full share Of at1ep lion and interest abroad among sue- seekers and capitalists.
 4 lively competition has sprung ro 'or the possession of things which have he.a.o- fore gone a-beggjng fer ownership 1.-rr is a scramble for franchises. NothirE 'af.. surely indicates great industrial 5aa. -.. ing than this. The rates Of iuecrae. .5- falling to moderate figures. No;nul ..fa surely indicates confidence and coulrs--i n amohg the money lenders thaa this
 Arizona has reached that ciiMactieef period which every western state has ex- perienced sometime in it's history 0len. after long aud weary struggle and doubt, vIth each side Of the balance first up and then down. the clouds of despondency have suddenly rolled away, and sunhulst of eDergizing hope Las thrilled the droop- ing spirits of the people to greater and brGVer CnuCaYOr than before.
 For the last twelve years the suhsidence of the great Tombstone boom and the con- pletion of two transcontinental lines of railroad across fer territory-Arizona has rather dropped out of public attention, but in that time she has been quietly ac- cumulatinG a 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 Mexicam8 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 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 @ 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 Of 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 gre increasing.
 Because, unlike Southern California it does not require small fortune to secure 6 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 clements 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 United States that yields the products of the temperate and semi-tropic zones.
 Because the worker receives a fair com pensation for his labor, and the hustler has a field for the display of his energy and en- terprise.
 Because there are neither blizzards ol tornadoes, earthquakes nor inundations snow-storms nor cyclones.
 Because the vast and varied resources ot the country are yet to be developed.
 Because the wealth of it's mines, it's farn- ing valleys, and grazing lands, vii yst hui!5 up great and prospefous county
 Because man can maac 2 livelihood her, with less labor than,in any othar rs.s of the United States.
 Because there is health in every breeze and strength and vigor under its cloudless skies.
 Because the settler need not spend 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 a colder cline.
 Because fortunes here await the venture. some, and health welcJm the afflicted.
 Because the country has a brilliant future and you want to be in the swim
 Because in it's pure, dry invigorating air, epidemic diseases cannot live or germinate.
 Because it's people are generous, liberal hospitable and progressive.