The Arizona sentinel., 1897-06-12
CAN ONE LIVE COMFORTABLY?

CAN ONE LAVE
 That again depends on what you expect. You cannot ha,e the luxuries of our New York houses cut there, unless you build one; or the variety Of our New York markets, unless you charater refrigerator car. But there a1'e hotels with almost as much frontage as the Waldorf; and, like everything else in the Territory excepting the mountains and deserts, they are new. There are boarding houses of more kinds than one; and brIck 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 Adiroadacks can camp out in Arizona through the winter.
 As to food, there is plenty, aad 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 ven;son from the vicinity can also be had. Vegetables and fruits are abundant in their season, and sometimes the season is & long one. It is the one country have lived in where strawberries ripen ill the open air ten months in the year have had them on my table, fresh picked from the open garden at Christmas
 IsITA LAwLEss COUNTRY?
 The man who goes to any considerable Arizona town with the idea of the South west derived from novels, or from "The Arizona Kicker, will bc greatly mystjied. He will Gnd as many churches as in towns Of corresponding size in Fenraylyania or Chic; ard probably more scloolhoase<- He will find plenty of iiqnor-shops. too, and gambling houses, and da9cehousee, and vec he will sec little disorder unless he hunts late at night for it. and he ~ill be apt to u-'<-''S 'tV itVC4't-N--St 'Cl-!'liH-ttty JI ttL thousand people requiring io the daytime only one policonaa, and hardly requiring him. During ny wia.er there 1 did moi see a single distUr5auca i'll the streets, or half a dozen drunken men, all told. Min ing men and an occasional cowboy certainly had quarrels, sometimes, in tAe disorderly L, of the nse of the knife among MeXicans; but tie visitor who went about his own business had as little trouble Gs oa Board way or Chestnut street. The Pima and Maricopa Indians, who are encountered everywhere. have been friendly I5i,h the whites for generations, and there isn't an Apache within some hundreds Of lailca.
 WHICH TOWN Is THe BEST?
 Primarily that is question for the phy- siciau, if there is a physician in the case- if not, try them all. If mountain region, considerable altitude and comparatively low temperature is desired, Prescott is in picturesque region, near a great mining districts, and has the social advantage of an army post, whippIe Barracks. Flag staff IS still higher, is in region of dense pine forests, and is within Q hard days journey Of one of the wonders of the world, the Colorado Canyon. Oracle is pretty : mountain nook, ernbowere in splendid live oaks, like those of California, and is also near an important mining district. If lower altitude and distinctly semi tropical climate are desired, the three places most likely % h. considered are Ypma.