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The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1898-09-10

formerly the capital. It's elevation being
more than double that of Phoenix, it is
somewhat cooler, and as there is next to no
irrigation near it, the air is a little drier.
Phoenix is the centre of the greatest irriga-
ton in the Territory. The country for
miles around smiles with green fields, cover
ed with almost countless herds of cattle,
and it is everywhere shut in by low mount
aims. 1t is the Territorial capital, has the
Government Indian School, the Territorial
Lunatic Asylum, and other institutions.
and is the general focus for the Territory.
Like Tucson, 1t has its occasional wind and
sand storms perhaps not quite so often.
At either place visitors who know how to
adapt themselves to circumstances can be
entirely comfortable, and in each they will
find an intelligent, orderly, enterprisinc and
most hospitable community. They viii
find country full of mines, full of rich
agricultural lands, Astounding in cattle and
horses, i'll vineyards and orchards and the
beginnings OF very successful orange groves
"a country, in fact, as full of promise for
hardy and adventurous men now as CaIifor-
MA was in the fifties. Above all, it has
| beeE their lot to search for health in far
countries, they will revel in the luxury of
being In their own land, among their own
countrymen, within easy reach of their
friends by telegraph Or rail, and in climate
as good of its kind as any in the world.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1898-09-10
WHICH TOWN Is THO BEST?

Primarily that is a question for the ply
slcian, if there is a physician in the case
If not, try them all. If a mountain region,
considerable altitude and comparatively
low temperature is desired, Prescott is in
picturesque region, near a great mining
districts, and has tie social advaAtaPs of
an army post, whipple Barracks. J ag-
stall Is still higher, is in a region of use
pine forests, and is within =, hard { .y'S
Journey OF one of the wonders of the " d.,
the Colorado Canyon Oracle is a r! .tty
mountain nook, powered i'll splcndid
live oaks, Gketb sc of California and is
also near an Iportant mining district.
IL lower altitude and a distinctly semi
tropical climate are desired, the three places
most likely to be considered are Yuma,
tucson and Phoenix. The first is near the
sea level; is the warmest and probably the
urieSt OF the three, has the least population,
anu the smallest provision for visitors.
lucson Is the oldest town i'll the Territory,
anu alter Santa Fe,, perhaps the oldest in
the southwest. Its adobe houses give it a
Mexican look, and are thoroughly comfort
able Its newer houses are of handsome
building stone, found in the vicinity. The
Territorial University is here, and it was
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1898-09-10
MINES.

There is no section of the United States,
Or probably of the earth, more rich i'll min
eral wealth than the County of Yuma. AL
the country north, east and south of Yuma
lies directly within the main gold belt that
commences in Alaska and cnds in Mexico.
From the San BrrnardinO mountains III
California t. the Sonora boundary line the
mountains and hills are exceptionally rich i'll
the precious metal, as though demonstrating
the theory often advanced that the richest
gold mines arc found bordering the beds Of
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1898-09-10
Is IT A LAwLEsS COUNTRY?

The man who goes to any considerable
Arizona town with the ilea of the South
west derived from novels, or from ''The
Arizona Kicker" will be greatly mystitied.
He will find as man: churches as in towns
of corresponding size in Pennsylvania Or
Ohio; and probably more schoolhCuses' He
will find plenty of liqnOr-shOps. too, and
gambling houses. and dancebouses, and yet
he will see little disorder unless he hunts
late at night for it, and he will I've apt to
fnl-as at Phoenix-a community of ten
thousand people requiring in the day time
onl.5 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
ing men and an occasional cowboy certainly
had quarrels, sometimes, III the disorderly
quarters at night; and there were stories
of the use of the knife among Mexicans;
but the visitor who went about his own
business had as little trouble as on Board
way or Chestnut street. The Pima and
Maricopa Indians. who are encountered
everywhere. have been friendly with the
whites for generations, and there isn't an
Apache within come hundreds of miles,
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1898-09-10
fgECLIMATE OF YUMA.

The climate OF Yuma tor nine months of
sic year has no equafsa as we believe, in the
eorld, and during the remaining three
months of the year. comprising June, July
end august, the heat is not oppressive.
Even though the thermometer in nid-sum-
s,er may az times rise above 1907, and &C.
sasfonally even reach lI00, yet, owing to
She absence Of moisture in the air, it is not
oppressive. The atmosphere is pure, light
and balmy. When the mercury marks the
slightest extreme of heat, a person does not
feal that oppression or debility which is
Sos IL the Eastern States when tie CT
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1898-09-10
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
HOMESTEAD Entry No. 1865,
Land Office ut Tucson, Arizona :.
December 9, 1897.

Land Office at Tucson, Arizous
December 9, 1897. =
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has liled notice of his inten,
ton to make final proof IN support ef his
claim, and that said proof will be made
before the Clerk of the District Court at
Yuma, Arizona, OH January %, 1898, viz:
Carlos Ramirez, of Yuma, Yuma county
Arizona, for the se1t sec. %. L. IOS., K.
II w, e.. Il 5. II. NJ.
lie names the following witnesses to
prove his continuous residence tpo4 sntt
cultivation Of ssNt Eid, viz. Charles
Nolan, PatriciB' esbhzales, George \. Duke
and Custotlio Rahifez all Of Yuma, Yuma.
County, Arizona.
EtGENE J. TRIrFEI,
Register.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1898-09-10
WHY IMMIGRANTS SHOULD COME TO YUMA

WHY IMMIGRANTS SHOULD COME TO YUMA
COUNTY.
Because the climate is perfect.
Because the soil is fertile and prolific.
Because land is abundant and cheap.
because a home can be made with little
labor.
Because so great variety of products
can be grown.
Because the yield is large and the prices
always remunerative.
Because life is Il luxury in a land where
the sun shines every day.
Because th.rc are chances for DOOR man
which he can never hope to find in older
countries.
Because the country is advancing and
property values are increasing.
Because, unlike Southern California #
docs not require a small fortune to secure a
piece of land.
Because capital does not block all the av-
enues to wealth, nor crowd the poor man
to the wall
Because Uncle Sam has yet many farms
i'll Yuma county waiting for occupants.
Bscause churches, schools, newspapers
and railroads are fast developing the moral
and material elements of the Territory.
Because good land is becoming scarce, and
if you don't catch on now, your last chance
will soon he gone.
because the country is one of the few
regions of the Uuited States that Yields the
products of the temperate and semi-tropic
zones.
Because the worker receives fair com.
pcnsation for his labor, and the 'rustIer' has
a field for the display of his energy and en-
terprise.
Because there are neither billiards. Or
tornadoes, earthquakes nor inundatiops
snow-storms nor cyclones.
Because the vast and varied resources Of
the country are yet to be developed.
Because the wealth of its mines, its farm |
ing valleys, and grazing lands, will vet build
up a great AMI prosperous county.
Because a man can make livelihood her /
with less labor than III any other part of the
United States.
Because there is health in every breeze
and strength and vigor under it's cloudless
skies.
Because the settler need not spend life
time in telling trees and grabbing out
stumps.
Because vegetation is 50 rapid that in two
years the home is surrounded By a growth [
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1898-09-10

curry is ranging from SO' to 90. The air is
so dry that Precipitation Is absorbed as soon
as it reaches the surface of the body, and
at ne time in the SIMMER does the heat
produce any discomfort.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1898-09-10
ARIZONA.
It's attractions and advantages as Il
Place of Residence in Winter.

Whitelaw Reid. owner and editor of the
New York Tribune, who has spent the last
two whit ers in Arizona for the benefit Of
his health, writes cntertainingly and in
structively concerning that Part of the
country. Mr.. Reid says:
SO many questions are asked about Ari-
IONA as place for winter residence, and
there appears to be such a 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 TIE
day. Of course there were a good many
days which weather observer would dc
scribe as "clOudy," and some that were
"showery; but during these five months
from No ember, 1895, to May, 1885,
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.
l have seen the thermometer mark %
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 tie pres
emit territorial capital Of 81! degrees in
November, So degrees in December 40 de
grcos III January, 81 degrees in February,
81 degrees IN ,!arah and IS degrees in
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1898-09-10
ARIZONA.

Arizona stands at the threshold of an
era of wonderful social and industrial de-
velopment. There can't be a doubt about
the fact. The dawn for which sire has
waited so long is breaking at last. There
is every promise of a day Of great pros
perity and permanent upbuilding just be-
fore her. The impulse of a new and encr-
giving hope is visible everywhere among
her people while the cumulative effect of
many things, which made but small inn
preston as they transpired singly, is now
commanding for her full share OF atten-
ton and interest abroad among home
seekers and capitalists.
4 lively competition has sprung up for
the possession of things which have hereto
fore gone a-begging for ownership. There
is a scramble for franchises. Nothing more
surely indicates great industrial awaken
ing than this. The rates of interest arc
falling to moderate figures. Nothing more
surely indicates confidence and competition
among the money lend rs than this.
Arizona has reached that climacticer
period which every western state has ex-
perienced sometime in its history when,
after long and weary struggle and doubt,
with each side of the balance first up and
then down, the clouds of dependency
have suddenly rolled away, and sunhurst
of cnergiziug hope has thrilled the droop-
ing spirits of the people to greater and
Drawer endcavor than before.
For the last twelve years the subsistence
of the great Tombstone boom aud the COM
pletion of two transcontinental lines OF
railroad across her territorJ-Arizona has
rather dropped out of public attention,
but in that time she has been quietly ac-
cumulatin9 a fund of substantial wealth
and a force of moral character which
qualify her now to rise up and take her
destiny in her own hands.
The population of Arizona is Mexican.
This is mistake Of great Importance fro'h
the moral point of view. There is but one
considerable center of Mexican population
i'll the territory, the city of Tucson, and
even there it is not by any means at pres
ent the predOminating element. 1t think
it is cel tain that Arizona has not to-day
nearly so large a Mexican population as
Colorado and not above onc-tenth as much
As New Mexico. ."Fitz, Mac" in Denver
News.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1898-09-10

Don't go to the Klondike-yoG don't
have to. Stop at Iaeger7s and get a
big beer; cool and refreshing. &
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1898-09-10

The atmosphere is sinsularly clear, tonic
and dry. | have never seen 1t clearer
anyw here in the world. 1t seems to have
about the same bracing and exhilarating
qualities as the air of the Great Sahara III
Northern Africa, or of the deserts about
Mount Sinai, in Arabia Petraea. 1t is
much drier than IN the parts of Morocco.
Algicrs or Tunis usually visited, and drier
than any part of the Valley of the Nile
north of the First Cataract. 1t seems to
me about the same in quality as the air on
the Nile between Assouan and Wady-
Halfa, but somew hat cooler.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1898-09-10

April. The same reports show the highest
and lowest temperatures, averaged ior
eight years, at the same place, as follows:
For November 1871 degrees and II degrees
December 1871 degrees and 361a degrees,
January 651l degrees and % degrees, Feb
ruary ~ degrees and 35H de rees'
March 81 q degrees and Al degrees and
April S61z degrees and IS degrees. The
nights throughout the winter are apt to be
cool enough for open wood fires, and for
blankets. Half the time al overcoat Is
not needed during the day, but it Is never
prudent for stranger to be without one
at hand.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1898-09-10
RE5SnURCEsS OF
YUMA COUT1I Y
The Soil, Climate, Rivers, and MANY
and Varied Offerings OF
FAIR ARIZONhS BANNER COUNTY.

Brief Setting Forth the Many Advantages and
inducements y Place of Residence
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1898-09-10
ACTUAL HUMIDITY.

This is eXtren ely slight, everyw here in
Arizona, as compared with any eastern
climate in the United States. The air is
driest on the high mesas, remote from
snowclad mountains or forests, and in the
desert valleys, where no considerable irri-
CATION has been begun. Wherever irriga-
ton is carried on on a large scale, the
percentage of humidity in the atmosphere
must be somewhat increased, although to
an eastern visitor it is scarcely perceptible.
The same Government observations al
ready cited show relative humidity, at
Phoenix or Tucson, averaged for weeks,
from morning and evening readings, at less
than half the usual humidity on dry days
in New York. General Greedy, in a pub
LEGATION from the Weather Bureau, gave
the normal weight Of aqueous vapor in the
Arizona air at from a to 4 grains per
cubic foot.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1898-09-10
Wanted An Idea : S E:s$ = .!s ~

Protect your ideas; they may bring you wealth.
witt write JOHs WEDDERBCRN 4 CO, Patent Attor.
and list OF two hundred inventIous vented:
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1898-09-10
Is IT \ PLACE FIT TO LIVE IN:

This depends on what one expects in a
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 VIII lie fHd the historic remains or
the cosmopolitan attractions of Egypt; nor
could he reasonable expect the amusements
and luXuries of orr 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 o. railway
with numerous feeders; it has fast mails,
and rival telegraph lines, and is throbbing
with the intense life of the splendid West.
The two principal towns in the south
err portion, chiefly sought for their climatic
advantages, are Phoenix and Tucson. Each
of them has ten thousand inhabitants or
more. They have the electric light, tele-
phones, trolley cars, plenty of hotels,
banks, bookstores, good schools, churches,
an occasional theatrical performance, some
times lecture or {. circus, often a horse
race, and, in the spring. thoroughly
curious and interesting ''tiesta.'' For the
ccst, people must take their amuscmcnts
with them. Good horses are abundant
and cheap. and there are plenty Of cow
boys-the genuine articlc-to show what
horses can do. The driving for fifteen or
twenty miles in almost any direction from
Phoenix, is nearly always easy. The roads
are apt to be dusty; but there Is one we'll
srrinklcd drive of six or eight miles; and
since the winds arc quite regular in their
direction, it is rarely difficult to choose a
route or which the dust will be largely
carried away FROM you. The unbroken
desert itself is often as easy to drive over
as an Eastern highway, and the whole
valley is a paradise for bicyclers, or eques-
trians.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1898-09-10

Showers, and indeed heavy rains are
liable to occur i'll 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 So inches per year.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-09-17
ABOUT FODDER CORN.
An EnsilaEe Pit, This Writer Thinks,
Is It's Proper and Most Profit
able Destination.

With present knowledge of the
profits of winter dairying it hardly
pays to put surplus cornfodder into
shocks to be cured. An ensilage pit
is it's proper destination, as thus the
fodder next winter can be made to
yield you twice the amount of milk
that it would if fed in dry state.
l am well acquainted with an ener-
getic progressive dairyman who raised
one of the finest fields of fodder eorr
ever saw grow He had heavily ma
nured his land TO start with, and then
cultivated the growing corn so assidu
ously that it had all developed into
strong, vigorous canes. He fed out
perhaps third Of this noble field be-
fore frost threatened. and then to my
surprise cut and shocked the remain
der for dry feeding in winter. By so
doing, instead of converting it into en-
silage, he lost at least so per cent. in its
feeding value, as viewed from a posi-
BILE milk-yielding standpoint. 1t was
an illustration If a dairyman being
partly wise and partly foolish.
1 earnestly enjoin all dairymen not
to waste their cVrnfodder this fall.
There is too much good milk encased
in every stalk and leaf, which needs
only intelligent. economical feeding
| to conduct it into the milking pail.
Many people have an unwarranted
prejudice against ensilage-produced
milk on account of its flavor. If they
would aerate their milk thoroughly,
| as all milk should be treated anyway,
this Objectionable flavor would be
largely if not entirely eliminated.
Do net let question of possible milk
favor deter you from putting your sur
plus corn fodder down in ensilage.-
George E. Newell, in Ohio Farmer.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-09-17
FUNNY THING IN SPELLING.
Learning to Manipulate n Typewriter
Gets Man Into Queer
Habit.

A Cleveland man has set about learning
the use of the typewriter. Up to the present
time he has had somebody to do his typewrit.
ing for him, but now he wants to know how
to run it all by himself. He admits that he
isn't an apt scholar. 1t comes slowly. The
letters are hard to find and the spacing is so
easily forgotten. But there is one thing that
amuses him. He is learning to speA and
learning in the same way he did whe1ee'tow-
headed boy in the early Cos. OF course he
could spell when he tackled the typewriter,
but not in the same way. Now he distinctly
enumerates each letter, and does it, too, with
the greatest care. 1t is funny thing, but he
finds himself spelling out the words in the
newspaper and his wife says he spells them
in his sleep.
The other day the minister met him and
asked him how he was.
"V-e-r-y WE'LL" he gravely spelled out
and when the pastor looked amazed he real
lied what he had done and hastily explained
the cause of the popularity. And the minis
ter professed to be greatly interested anc
wanted to know all about it and the speller il
now greatly worried for fear the parson viii
write a special paper on it for some maga
zine.
When the minister finally left him h,
shook hands and said "Good-by."
Good" began the speller and then rec
objected himself and hastily added "by."
He hopes in time to wear out this peculiar
ity, and when he increases his speed on tn
typewriter he no doubt will.-Clevelant
Plain Dealer.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-09-17
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GRMtrd d:SLlI3EI5S
WHAT is THE FARM FIT FORT

A word to the restless people-to the fast
and feverish age:
A perfect manhood is better than any
wealth or wage.
Some are for gold-some, glitter; but tell
me, tell me, when
VIII we stand for the farm and the college
that go for the making of men?
Yes, what is the old farm At for? The word
is wisely said
There may be stumps in the pasture and
the house may be a shed;
But what If a Lincoln or Garfield be here
in this boy of ten?
And what should the farm be fit for, II not
the raising of men?
'Tis a scanty soil for a seeding, but here
we win our bread,
And a stout heart may grow stronger
where plow and harrow are sped;
Then break up the bleak high hillside and
trench the swamp and fen
For what should the farm be fit for, IL not
the raising of men?
The crop by the frost is bighted, niggard
the season seems;
Yet the ready hand finds duties and the
heart of the youth has dreams
The bar and the senate tomorrow; to-mor-
row the sword or the pen;
For what should the farm be fit for II not
the raising of men?
And what II our lot be humbler-if we on
the farm abide?
There is room for noble living and the
realm of thought is wide;
A mind enriched is a fortune-and you will
know it--when
You see that the farm is fit for the rearing
of noble men.
president Harris, Maine State College.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-09-17

A foreign letter states that Prince
Ferdinand of Bulgaria, persists in con-
tinuing to render himself ridiculous.
When at Carlsbad last summer he con-
ferred one of his decorations upon the
local chiropodist who had attended to
his feet. and now it is announced that
while travelling from St. Petersburg
to Berlin he was so pleased with the
good cheer provided for him at the
railroad restaurant at Dantzig that on
leaving he solemnly invested the man
ager of the eating house with the or
der of st. Alexander, presumably in
lieu of tip.-N. Y. World.