The Arizona sentinel., 1898-05-21

of trees and shrubs which would require five years to develop in 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 its pure, dry inviooratino air epidemic diseases cannot live or germinats
 Because its people are generous. liberal hospitable and progressive.
 WHY CAPITAL SHOULD SEEK YUMA couNry
 Because its mines are the richest
 Because its grazing lands are the best
 Because its farming lands are valuable and productive.
 Because 1t gives assurance of the Iaros-- returns on money invested.
 Because it's grand resources are vet to be developed
 Because 1t is young, growing count, with an assured future.
 Because the opportunities for engaging in manufacturing enterprises are better than in | any other region of tEe West.
 Because good mining properties can be had at reasonable figures.
 Because there is demand for additional facilities for ore reduction.
 Because there are vast stretches of rich soil to be reclaimed by the construction If 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 a new country which cannot exist in older eom.. munities.
 Because the opportunities for engaging in the successful cultivation of semi-troni. fruits are better than in any other part the United States.
 Because property values are rapidly ad. vancing.
 Because Arizona's boom is yet to come.
 Because it is a virgin field, ready for the
 
 That again depends on what you expect. You cannot have the luxuries of our New York houses out there, unless you build one; or thc rarietv f OFT New York markets, unless you charater a refrigeratoE car. But there are hotels with almost a much frontage as the Waldorf; and, like every thing 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 occasiaaily 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 wLo knows how t51zx 'eaa-r -'i,h aomfort through Soptem a5- an the Adiroadacrs can camp out > Arizona throurt -I glnter
 As to food, there is pleu5. good-if you can get is well coo.- alfalfa fields of the Salt River VaLe the fartening 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 vsnison from the vicinity can also be had. Vegetables aad 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 picked from the open garden at Christmas.
 ATTITUDES.
 It is striking advantage offered by Arizona that, with the same general con- litions as to temperature and dryness of ir, the physician is able to select nearly my altitude he may desire. Thus, asth- natic sufferers can find almost the sea evel at Yuma, or an altitude of only & hOusand feet at Phoenix, or of only 2,4O0 t Tucson. Others, who find no objection 0 greater elevations, can choose between 'rescott or Fort Whipple, 5,4OO; Flag taff, 6.S00,; the Sulphur Spring Valley, or ort Grant, 4,2OO; Fort Huachuca. 4, 500, j r Oracle, about 1000.