The Arizona sentinel., 1897-07-31

4.szzassz April. The same reports show the highest and lowest temperatures, averaged for eight years, at the same place, as follows: For NovemberT9H degrees and 42 degrees, December 7s1s degrees and 3GH degree, Janpary,6J% degrees and 3 degrees, Feb- rugry tI15 degrees and 35H de .rees, March Sl 1s degrees and Al degrees and April 86I degrees and 46 degrees. The nights throughout the winter are apt to be cool enough for open wood fires, and for. blankets. Half the time an overcoat is net needed during the day, but it is never prudent for 9 stranger to be without one at hand.
 The atmosphere is singnIarly clear, tonic and dry. I have never seen it clearer anyw here in the world. 1t seems to have about the same bracing aud exhilaratiDg qualities as the air of the Great Sahara in Northern Africa, or cf the deserts about Mount Sinai, in Arabia Petraea. It is much drier than ln the rarte of Morocco. 1 Aigieis or Tuuis usually visited, and drieF than any rart of the Valley Of the Nile north of tie FIst Cataract. IL seems to nc about the same in quality as the air on the Nile be:ween Assouan and Wady, iiaifa, but soue hat cooler.
 ACTUAL HUMIDITY.
 This is extremely slight, everywhere ill Arizona, as compared with sny eastern climate ln the United States. The air is 3.iast e ,Aa A.-a nasas, remote frra s1ovc...i a.o eAss.as5r forests. and ia the de-ecy .s.egs, raero ao . IS ,.e,-his irrt- gasSou aa5 been begun. Wherever irrig4- ton is carried on on 9 large scale, the percentage cf humidity in tae atmosphere mast be somewhat. iuctessa&, although .o' an eastern yisitor t is scarce.y 9eree ptih'e, The same Government observations al ready cited show relative humidity. at Phoenix CT Tucson, averaged for weeks, from morning and evening readings. at less .thah half the usual humidity on dry days in Eex York. General Greedy, in a pub I'lica tion from the Weather Bureau, gave tine normal weight of aqueous vapor n the Arizona air at irorn E to I grains per cubic 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 s % inches per year.
 ATTITUDES.
 Jtls-a striking advantage offered by Arizona that, with the same general con t1itions as to temperature and dryness ct air, the physician is able to select nearly any altitude he may desire. Thus, asth- nlatic sufferers can find almost the sea level at Yuma, or an altitude of only a thousand feet at Phoenix, or of only 2,406 t.i$ Tucson. Others, who find no objection to greater elera :ioas, can choose between Prescott or Fort Wh;pp'e, 5,400; Flag staff 6. 500, the Sulphur Spring Valley, or Fort Grant, 4.200;. Fort Huaehuca. 4,S0o, or Crack. about 1, coo.
 Is.ITAPLACE FIT TO LIVE N? This depends on what one expects in huge, parsely settled Territory of mount aims and deserts. The man who looks for either the beauty or the seductive excite ment of Monte Carlo will not find it. As little will he find the historic remains or the cosmopolitan attractions of Egypt; nor could he reasonable expect the amnssments and luxuries 6f our own Eastern cities. The people of Arizona are still chiefly busy in the pioneer work of subduing it to the residence and uses of civilized man. But it has two transcontinental lines Of railw ay with numerous feeders; it has fast mails, and rival telegraph llnes, and is throbbihg with the intense life of the splendid Westl
 The two principal towns in the southH ern portion, chiefiy sought for their climatic advantages, are PLoenix and Tucson Each of them las ten thousand inhabitants or more. They have tue electric i.ht, teie- phones, trolley cars, plenty oI hotels banks, bookstores. good schools, churches, an occasional theatrical performance, some times a lecture or-a circus, often q horse race, and, in the spring. a thorOu ,-ly curious and interesting 'liesta." For the cest, people must take their amusemcntS 0 ith them. Good horses are ab lndant and cheap, and there ate .p,enty of cow. ooys--the genuine arsic,e-Go snow what horses can do. The Gri ing for,k!teea CT tTenCY ,r::es in almost arY 6!l.crron from PhoealX, Is aear,y alwags eas.. GAe roads a:e apa to b. d4s.y; bat there Is enc wel- srraa-sd drive of six G eight miles; and sirce the wln5a a.e quite regular in their ,jlrectlon, 1t is rarely diff ulS to choose route or wh;oh the dust ".iii be largely carried away tror. you. The unbroken desert itseltis oft.D as eaay to drive over as an Eastern highway, and the whole valley is a paradise for bicyclers, or eques- tliins.
 CAN ONE LIVE COMFORTABLY?
 That again depends on what you expect. Ton cannot ka,e the luxuries of our New York houses ont there, unless yoa build i