The Arizona sentinel., 1897-04-17
CAN ONE LIVE COMFORTABLY?

That again depends on what you expec.
 Ton cannot have the luxuries of our X CIV
 York houses oat there, unless you build one; or the variety of our New Yora, markets, unless you charater refrigerator car. But there are hotels VI ith 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 Scptem. Der Ill the Adirondacks can camp out in Arizona through the wlDtcr.
 As to food, there is plenty. ard t iz good-ii you can get it vel! cooked. Tie alfalfa fields ot the Salt River Valley are She fattening ground for the great cattle ranges of the Territory. From there the markets of Los Angeles aud even Of Denver are largely supphed, Good beef, mutton and poultry are plenty and cheap. Qaail, 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 l have lived in " here straw berries ripen in the open air ten months iu the year. 1 have had them on my table, fresh picked from the open garden at Christmas
 IS IT LIWLEsS COUNTRY?
 The man who goes to any considerable Arizona town With the ilaa of the South- west derived from novels, or from "The Arizona Kicker" will be greatly mystifed. He will lind as many churches as in towns of corresponding size in Pennsylvania pr Ohio; and probably more schoolhouses. He will find plenty of liquor-snops. too, and gambling houses, and dancehouses. and yet he will see little disorder unless he hunts late at night for it, and he will be apt to fnd-as at Phoenix-a community of ten thousand people requiring in the daytime only one policeman, and hardly requiring him. During my winter there I did not see a single disturbance in the streets, or half dozen drunken men, all told. Min. ng men and an occasional cowboy certainly l lad quarrels, sometimes, in the disorderly { quarters at night; and there were stories l ,t the use of the knife among Mexicans; , put the visitor who went about his own | business had as little trouble as on Board l way or Chestnut street. The Pima and | daricopa Indians, who are encountered ! have been friendly with the !, whites forEgenerations, and there isn't an 1 Apache within some hundreds of miles.
 WHICH TOWN IS T1e BEST?
 Primarily that is 6 question for the phy- ician, if there is a physician in the case f not, try them all. If mountain region, altitude and 8 comparatively ow temperature is desired, Prescott is in
 picturesque region, near great mining districts, and has the social advantage of n army post, whipple Barracks. Flag taF IS still higher, is in region of dense 'ine forests, and is within a hard day's ourney of oite of tine wonders of the world, he Colorado Canyon. Oracle is pretty mountain nook, embowered in splendid i've oaks. like those of California. and is iso near an important mining district