The Arizona sentinel., 1897-04-03
CAN ONE LIVE COMFORTABLY?


 That again depends on what you expect. You cannot ha, e the luxuries of our New York houses out there, unless you build one; or the variety of our New York markets, unless you charater 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 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 Tn 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 arc 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 oue. It is the one country 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 ISIrA 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 H will find as many churches as in towns of corresponding size in Pennsylvania or Ohio; and probably more schoolhouses' He will lind plenty of liqaor-snOps. too, and gambling houses. and dancehOusas, and yet he will see little disorder unless he hunts late at night for it, and he will be apt to tind-as at Phoenix-a community of ten thousand people requiring in the daytime only one policeman, and hardly requiring him. During my winter there did not see single disturbance in the streets. or half dozen drunken men, all told. Min iuo men and an occasional cowboy certainly l had ouarrels, sometimes, in the disordcrly quarters at night; and there were stories et the use of the knife among MeXtcans; but the visitor who went about his own business had as little trouble as on Board way or Chestnut street. The Pima and Marcopa Indians, who arc encountered everywhere. have been friendly with the whites Tor generations, and there lsn an Apaehe Within some hundreds ot mllea.
 WHICH TOWN IS THe BEST!
 Primarily that is a question for the phy- sician, if there is physician in the case if not, try them all. If mountain region. considerable altitude and a comuaratively low temperature is desired, Prescott is il picturesque region, near great mining districts, and has the social advantage O an army post, whipple Barracks. Flag l staff IS still higher, is in 8 region of 6ens , pine forests, and is within hard day : journey of one of the wonders of the world r the Colorado Canyon. Oracle is prett !. mountain nook, embowcred ill splendi
 live oaks, like those of California, and
 also near an important mining district
 If lower altitude and distinctly sem tropical climate are desired, the three place most likely to bo considered are Yums