The Arizona sentinel., 1897-07-17

,s.zsxs E. 's.i1. ,ss .E2.i!. The <a,,.x. reports sho" tle highest ;ad lowest temperatures, a'esagtd ter eight years, at the same place, as follows; For November 7SI degrees and 42 degrees, December 7315 degrees and 361a degrees, January G51& degrees and B degrees, Feb ruary 7ll degrees and 35h de rees. March Sl1s degrees and Al degrees and April S6H degrees and 46 degrees. Inc nights throughout the winter are apt. to be cool enough for open wood fires. and for blankets. Half the time an overcoat IS not needed during the day, but 1t Is never prudent for a stranger to be without one at hand.
 The atmosphere is singuiarly clear, tonic and dry I have never seen 1t clearer anyw here in the world. It seems to have about the same bracing and exhilarating nualities as the air Of the Great Sahara ln Northern Africa. or of the deserts about Mount Sinai, in Arabia Petraea. It IS much drier than III the parts of Morocco. AIciers or Tunis usually visited, and drler than any part of the Valley of the Nile north of the First Cataract. It seems to me about the game in quality as the air on the Nile betw cen Assoaan and Nady- LJIF, l,,,k -o,oa,, hat cooler
 ACTUAL HUMIDITY.
 Th,s 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 from snow clad mountains or forests, and in the desert valleys, where no considerable irrl- gation has been begun. Wherever lrrlga- tion is carried on on 8 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 ali 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 Ney York. General Greedy, in a pUb- lcstion from the Weather Bureau, gave the normal weight of aqueous vapor in the Arizona air at from 114 to i graias per cabic foot.
 Showers, and indeed heavy rains 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 6 1135 inches per year.
 ATTITUDES.
 Itlsa striking advantage offered by Arizona that, with the same general con ! ditions as to tcmpotature and dryness of air, the physician is able to select nearly any alsicude he may desire. Thus, asth- matic sufferers can find almost the sea level at Yuma, or an altitude of only a 1 thousand feet at Phoenix, or of only 2,4OO at Tucson. Others, who find no objection to greater elevations, can choose between Prescott or Fort Whipple. 5,4OO; Flag staff, G.SO0,; the Sulphur Spring Valley, or Fort Grant, 4,2OO; Fort Huachuca. 4,S0e, or Oracle, about 1000.
 ! Is TIA PLACE FIT TO LIVE IN?
 This depends on what one experts in a huge, parsely settled Territory of mount, ains and deserts. The man who looks fo1 either the beauty or the seductive excite mcnt of Monte Carlo wiu not ind it. As Ilittie will he GEd the historic remains ol the cosmopolitan attractions of Egypt; nol could he reasonable expect the amusement; and luxuries of cur o-yn Eastern cities. The people of Arizona are stiil chiefly busy ir the pioneer work of snbdning it to the residence and uses Of civilized man. Bui it has two transcontinenta lines of railw ay with numerous feeders; it has fast mails, and rival telegraph lInes. and is throhbing 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. 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 a circus, often a horse race, and, in the spring, a thorough ly curious and interesting ''iiesta. For the cest, people must take their amusemcnt' with them. Good horses are abundant and cheap. and there are plenty of cow boys-the genuine article-to show wha horses can do. The driving for fifteen o' twenty miles in almost any direction from 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 tine winds are quite regular in thei direction. it is rarely difficult to choose |; route or which the dust will be largely carried away frorl you. The unbroker desert itself is often as easy to drive ove as an Eastern highway, and the whole valley is paradise for bicyclers, or eques tiians.
 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 builC one; or thy variety of our New YorI markets, unless you charater refrigerator