The Arizona sentinel., 1897-03-06
CAN ONE LIVE CorF0ErABLv?

CAN ONE LIVE CoGF0ETABIV.
 That again depends on Ns48t you expect. You canno5 have the luxur.as or our Ne~ York houses ont there, unless yea build one; or the variety of our New York markets, unless you charater a refrigerator car. But there arc 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 ln the Adirondacks can camp out in A,izona througi the winter.
 As to food, there is plenty, and it is good-if you can get it well cooked The alfalfa fields ot the Sat River Valley are the fattening gr5yrd for the great cattle ranges Of he Territory From there the markets oi Los Angeles and even of Denver are largely supplied, G"oi beef, mutton and poultry are plenty and cheap Quail, ducks and venis from he vicinity can also be had. Vegetables and fruits are , abundant in their season, and sometimes the season is a long one. It is the one country I have lived in where straw berries ripen in the open air ten months in the year. l have had them on my table, fresh picked from the open garden at Christmas Is IT A 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 be greatly mystifed. ] He will find as many churches as in towns of corresponding size in Pennsylvania pr Ohio; and probably more schoolhOuses' He will find plenty of liquor-shops. too, and gambling houses. and dancehouses, and yet ! he will sec little disorder unless he hunts | late at night for it, and he will be apt to Gnd-as at Phoenix--a community of ten thousand people requiring i'll the daytime only one policeman, and hardly requiring. him. During my winter there did not see a single disturbance in the streets, or half dozen drunken men, all told. Min ing men and an occasional cowboy certainly had quarrels, sometimes, in the disorderly quarters at night; and there were stories of the use of the knife among Mexicans; but the visitor who went about his own business had as little trouble as on Board way or Chestnut street. The Pima and Maricopa Indians, who are encountered everywhere. have been friendly with the whites for generations. and there isn't an Apache ithin some hundreds of miles.
 WHICH TOWN Is THe BEST?
 Primarily that is question for the phy sjcian, if there is a physician in the case if not. try them all If a mountain region, considerable altitode and comparatively low temperature is desired, Prescott is in a picturesque region, near a great mining districts, aud has the social adva2tage of an army post. wnippie Barracks. Flag staff still hgher, is in region of dense pine forests, and is within hard days journey of one of the wonders Of the world, the Colorado Canyon, Oracle is a pretty mountain nook, embowered 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 to bs considered arc Yuma,