The Arizona sentinel., 1897-02-13
ARIZONA.

era of wonderful social and industrial de- veopment. There can't be a doubt ahopt the fact The dawn for which she h2s waited so long-is breaking at last. Iher, is every promise of day of great rroe- perity and permanent upbuildipg just Le- fore her. The impulse of new and .ncr- gizing hope is visible everywhere among her people, while the cumulative effect of many things, which made but small iui pression as they transpired singly, is now commanding for her full share of attea- ton and interest abroad among home- seekers and capitalists.
 1 lively competition has sprung up fer the possession of things which have hereto. fore gone a-begging for ownership. There is a scramble for franchises. Nothing more surely indicates great industrial awaken ing than this. The rates of interest are falling to moderate figures. Nothing more surely indicates confidence and competition among the money lenders than this
 Arizona has reached that climacticer period which every western state iias ex- perienced sometime in it's history when, after long and weary struggle and doubt, with each side of the balance first up and then down, the clouds of despondancy have suddenly rolled away, and a sunhurst of energizing hope has thrilled the droop- ing spirits of the people to greater and braver endeavor than before
 For the last twelve years the subsistence of the great Tombstone boom and the com- pletion of two transcontinental lines of railroad across her territory-ATizona has rather dropped out of public attention, but in that time she has been quietly ac- cumulating 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 Mexican. 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 1t 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 a 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 are increasing.
 Because, unlike Southern California it does not require a small fortune to secure a 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 elements 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 lab0r and the 'rustler' has 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 o1 the country are yet to be developed.
 Because the wealth of its mines, its farm ing valleys, and grazing lands, will yet build up great and prosperous county.
 Because man can make livelihood her, with less labor than in any other part of the United States.
 Because there is health in every breeze and strength and vigor under it's cloudlesi l 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 growtl of trees and shrubs which would require five years to develop in colder cline
 Because fortunes here await the venture some, and health welcomes the afflicted
 Because the country has q brilliant future and you want to be in the swim
 Because in its pure, dry invigorating air epidemic diseases cannot live or germinate
 Because its people are generous, liberal hospitable and progressive.