The Arizona sentinel., 1897-08-21


 April. The same reports show the highest and lowest temperatures, averaged for eight years, at the same place, as follows For November 7S1l degrees and 42 degrees, December 731l degrees and 36H degrees January 65% degrees and 32 degrees, Feb ruary 7lH degrees and 35H de rees, March Sl1a degrees and Il degrees and April S6h degrees and 46 degrees. The nights throughout the winter are apt to bt cool enough for open wood fres, and foi blankets Half the time gu overcoat i: not nseded during the day, but it is never prudent for stranger to be without on' at hand.
 The atmosphere is singularly clear, tonic and dry. 1 have never seen it clearer anywhere in the world. It seems to have about the same bracing and exhilaratine qualities as the air of the Great Sahara II Northern Africa, or of the deserts about Mount Sinai, in Arabia Petraea. It much drier than in the parts Of Morocco Algiers or Tunis usually visited, and drlel than any part of the Valley of the Nllt north of the First Cataract. It seems t( me about the same in quality as the air or the Nile between Assouan and Wady Halfa, but some hat cooler.
 ACTUAL HUMIDITY.
 This is extsemely slight, everywhere il Arizona, ss compared with any easterr climate in the United States. The air il driest on the high mesas, remote iron snowclad mountains or forests, and in tht desert valleys, where no considerable irri gation has been begun. Wherever irrIga- tion is carried on on large scale, thu percentage of humidity in the atmospher' must be somewhat increased, although t. an eastern visitor it is scarcely perceptible The same Government observations al ready cited show relative humidity. a Phoenix or Tucson, averaged for weeks from morning and evening readings, at les than half the usual humidity on dry day in New York. General Greedy, in pub lication from the Weather Bureau, gav the normal weight of aqueous vapor in tn Arizona air at from I to grains pc cubic foot.
 Showers, and indeed heavy rains ST liable to occur in every month of the year but the actual number of rains seems to al eastern visitor strangely small. Tn average rainfall in Southern Arizona, a show by the Government observations, l but 8114 inches per year.
 ATTITUDES.
 It isa striking advantage offered b. Arizona that, with the same general con ditions as to cmpcrature and dryness 0 air, the physician is able te select nearl.. any altitude he may desire. Thus, asth matic sufferers can find almost the se level at Yuma, or all altitude of only thousand feet at Phoenix, or of only 2,40 at Tucson. Others, who find no objection to greater elevations, can choose between Prescott or Fort Whipple. 5,400; Flag staff. 6.S0O,; the Sulphur Spring Valley, 0 Fort Grant, 4,200; Fort Huachuca. 4,S0o or Oracle, about 4,000.
 ITAPLACE FIT TO LIVE IN?
 This depends on what one expects in huge, parsely settled Territory Of mount aims and deserts. The man who looks fo either the beauty or the seductive excite ment of Monte Carlo will not find it. A little will he find the historic remains O the cosmopolitan attractions of Egypt; no could he reasonable expect the amusement and luxuries of our own Eastern cities. I'm people of Arizona are still chiefly busy il the pioneer work of subduing it to tn residence and uses of civilized man. Bu 1t has two transcOntinental lines of rsilwa ay with numerous feeders; it has fast mails and rival telegraph lines, and is throbbin! with the intense life of the splendid West
 The two principal towns in the south ern portion, chiefly sought for their climati, advantages, are Phoenix and Tucson. Eacf 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 times lecture or & circus, often horse race, and, in the spring, thoroughly curious and interesting "iesta." 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 twenty miles in almost any direction from Phoenix, is nearly always easy. The roads are apt to be dusty; but there IS one we'll sprinkled drive of six or eight miles; and since the winds are quite regular in theil direction, it is rarely difficult to choose g route or which the dust will be largely carried away from you. The unbroken 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. Y ou cannot ka, the luxuries of our New York houses out there, unless you build xl. 1f