The Arizona sentinel., 1898-12-03

of trees and shrubs which would require five years to develop in a colder cline
 Because fortunes here await the venture some, and health welcomes the afflicted.
 Because the country has brilliant future and you want to be in the swim"
 Because in it's pure, dry invigorating air, epidemic diseases cannot live or germinate.
 Because it's people are generous, liberal; lrospitable and progressive.
 WHY CAPITAL SHOULD SEEK YUMA COUNTY
 Because its mines are the richest.
 Because its grazing lands are the best.
 Because it's farming lands are valuable and productive.
 Because it gives assurance of the largest returns on money invested
 Because it's grand resources are yet to be developed.
 Because it is a young, growing county with an assured future.
 Because the opportunities for engaging in manufacturing enterprises are better than in any other region of the West.
 Because good mining properties can be had at reasonable figures.
 Because there is a demand for additional facilities for ore reduction. Because there are vast stretches of rich soil to be reclaimed by the construction of irrigating canals.
 Because there are large tracts of grass lands that can be utilized by the sinking ct artesian wells.
 Because there are many openings in new country which cannot exist in older com munities.
 Because the opportunities for engaging in the successful cultivation of semi -tropi- fruits are better than in any ether part the United States.
 Because property values are rapidly ad. vancing.
 Because Arizona's boom is yet 10 come.
 CAN ONF. LIVE EORTABLY?
 That again depends on what you expect. You cannot have 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 a much frontage as the Waldorf; and, like everything else in the Territory excepting the mountains and deserts, they are new. , There are boarding hosses 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
 energy and the pluck to take it, js to 5 on the desert; and he who knows how 5 ''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 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 have lived in where straw berries ripen in the open air ten months in the year. have had them on my table, fresh 3 picked from the open garden at Christmas ATTITUDES. It IS a striking advantage offered bv Arizona that, with the same general con- ditions as to temperature and drynsss of , air, the physician is able to select nearly any altitude he may desire. Thus, asth- matic sufferers can fad almost the sea e level at Yuma, or an altitude of only a e thousand feet at Phoenix, or of only 2,400 ' at Tucson. Others, who find no objection to greater elevations, can choose between e Prescott or Fort Whipple, 5,40O; Flag e staff. 6,S0O,; the Sulphur Spring Valley, or
 Fort Grant, 4,2OO; Fort Huachuca. 800, or Oracle, about 4,OO0.