The Arizona sentinel., 1897-02-20
CAN ONE LIVE COMFORTABLY?

CAN ONE LIVE COMFORTABLY?
 That again depends on what you expect You cannot have the luxures of our New York houses out there, unless you build one; or the variety of our New York markets, unless you charater a refrigerator car. But there are 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 br1ck 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 Arizona through the winter.
 As to food, there is plenty, and 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 venison from the 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. 1 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 nc will see little disorder unless he hunts late at night for it, and he %iIl be apt to
 
 thousand people requiring in the daytime only one policeman, and hardly requiring him. During my winter there l did not see @ single disturbance in the streets, or half a 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 for3generations, and there isn't an Apache within some hundreds of miles.
 WHICH TOWN IS Tile BEST?
 Primarily that is a question for the phy- sician, if there is a physician in the case if not, try them all. If mountain region, considerable altitude and a comparatively low temperature is desired, Prescott is in picturesque region, near a great mining districts, and has the social advantage of an army post, whipple Barracks. Flag staff IS still higher, is in region of dense pine forests, and is within a 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 are Yuma,