The Arizona sentinel., 1897-06-19
ARIZONA.
Its Attractions and Advantages as Q Place of Residence ill Winter.

It's Attractions and Advantages as 6 Q Place of Residence in Winter.
 Whitelaw Reid. owner and editor of the New York Tribune, who has spent the last two wint CTS in Arizona for the benefi5 of his health, writes cntertainingly and in structively concerning that part of the country. Mir. Reid says:
 So many questions are asked about Ari- zona as place for winter residence, and there appears to be such dearth of pre- else information among many who are vitally interested, that it seems almost a public duty, to set down, in the simplest form, few facts of personal observation.
 WEATHER.
 During a five months' residence in Southern Arizona in winter there was but one day when the weather made it actually unpleasant for me to take exercise in the open air at some time or other during the day. Of course there were a good many days which weather observer would de- scribe as "cloudy," and some that were "showery; but during these five months (from November, 1895, to May, lS96,l there were only four days when we did not have brilliant sunshine at some time dur ing the day. Even more than Egypt, any, where north of Luxor, Arizona is the laud of sunshine. AS to details:
 TEMPERATURE.
 have seen the thermometer mark 92 degrees in the shade on my north piazza in March. On the other hand, we had frosts which killed young orange trees, and there were several nights when thin ice formed. The government reports show a mean temperature for fourteen years at the pres ent territorial capital of 57A degrees in November, 53 degrees in December, 4S de grees in January, 54 degrees in February, 6l degrees Tn March and 66 degrees in April. The same reports show the highest and lowest temperatures, averaged for eight years. at the same place, as follows; For November 7S1& degrees and 42 degrees, December 731a degrees and 36Ha degrees, January 65H degrees and g degrees, Feb ruary 7l1S degrees and 35H de rees, March SI 1s degrees and fl degrees and April S6H degrees and 46 degrees. The nights throughout the winter are apt to be cool enough for open wood fires, and fol blankets. Half the time an overcoat is not needed during the day, but it is never prudent for stranger to be without one at hard.
 AIR.
 The atmosphere is singularly clear, tonic and dry. 1 have never seen 1t clearer anyw here in the world. It seems to have | about the same bracing and exhilaratins qualities as the air of the Great Sahara il Northern Africa, or of the deserts about Mount Sinai, in Arabia Petraea. It l! much drier than in the rarts of Morocco Algiers or Tunis usually visited, and driel than any part of the Valley of the Nile north of the First Cataract. It seems tc me about the same in quality as the air or the Nile between Assouan and Wady | Halfa, but somewhat cooler.
 ACTUAL HUMIDITY.
 This is extremely slight, everywhere II Arizona, as compared with any eastern climate in the United States. The air i' driest on the high mesas, remote from snowclad mountains or forests, and in the ! desert valleys, where no considerable irri gation has been begun. Wherever lrrlga- tion is carried on on large scale, tho percentage of humidity in the atmosphere must be somewhat increased, although tt an eastern visitor it is scarcely perceptlble The same Government observations al ready cited show relative humidity, a Phoenix or Tucson, averaged for weeks from morning and evening readings, at les than half the usual humidity on dry day in New York. General Greedy, in pub Iication from the Weather Bureau, gav' the normal weight of aqueous vapor in th' Arizona air at from l1a to 4 grains pc 1 cubic foot.
 Showers, and indeed heavy rains ar | liable to occur in every month of the year but the actual number of rains seems to al eastern visitor strangely small. In average rainfall in Southern Arizona, a shown by the Government observations, i but s14 inches per year.
 ATTITUDES.
 ItIsa striking advantage offered b. Arizona that, with the same general con ditions as to temperature and dryness o air. the physician is able to select nearl. any altitude he may desire. Thas, asth matic sufferers can find almost the se level at Yuma, or an altitude of only thousand feet at Phoenix, Or of only 2,4O ait Tucson. Others, who find no objection to greater elevations, can choose betweel | Prescott or Fort Whipple, 5,400; Flag staff. 6, SO0,; the Sulphur Spring Valley, 0 Fort Grant, 4,2OO; Fort Huaehuca. 4,So0 or Oracle, about 4,009,
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