The Arizona sentinel., 1898-08-06

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 beverage. Experiments with the rasin-grap have shown that this climate and soil posses every advantage for the production and curing c this staple article of commerce.
 "Besides the fruits already mentioned. the or ange, lemon, lime, olive, fig. pomegranate, an others of the citrus family, can be grown success fully in the valleys of Southern Arizona. Orang trees are now in bearing in the Salt River valle and at Yuma; while the bananas is also being cul tivated at the latter place. The Arizona orange il quality and flavor will compare favorably with tn best California.
 'In the valleys of the Colorado, the Salt and tn Gila rivers, there is room for thousands. It is no too much to say that nowhere within the limits o thls broad Union can be found a more desirabl, region for the making of home. No laboriou clearing of the land is required; it lies almos Leacy TOT the plow. Trees and shrubbery have st !apid growth that within eighteen months tn, immigrant can surround his abode with attraction %nch would require years to mature in less favored climates. Fruits ripen and are ready for marke S !uli month before the California product. Int onght sunshine makes life luxury, and the pure dry atmosphere brings health to all who inhale if For the establishment of colonies, such as we hay. made Of Southern California arden, Arizon, presents unrivaled opportunities Thousands O. by the construction of irrgatng ditches and tber. Is no investment which assures larger or nor, permanent returns" t"
 IS IT A LAwLESS COUNTRY?
 The man who goes to any considerable Arizona town with the idea of the South. UnCf Eann Arizona Kicker" will be greatly mystifed. He will lind as many churches as in towns ot corresponding size in Pennsylvania or Ohio; and probably more schoolhouses. He will lind plenty of liquor-shops. too, and gambling houses, and dancehouses, and vet he will see little disorder unless he hunts late at night for it, and he will be ant to hnd-as at Phoenix-a community of ten thousand people requiring in the daytime only one policeman, and hardly requiring hlm. During my winter there I did not see single disturbance in the streets. ar half dozen drunken men, all told. Min. ing men and an occasional cowb boy certainly had quarrels, sometimes, in the disorderly quarters at night; and there were stories ot 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 tbe whites for generations, and there isn't an Apache within some hundreds of miles.
 ACTUAL HUMIDITY,
 This IS extreB ely slight, everywhere 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. gation has been begun. Wherever irripa- tion is carried on on large scale, the of humidity in the atmosphere must be somewhat increased, although to an eastern visitor it is scarcely perceptible. The same Government observations all 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. lication from the Weather Bureau, gave the normal weight of aqueous vapor in the Arizona air at from lH to 4 grains per cubic foot.
 Showers, and indeed heavy rains are fable to occur in every month of the year; out the actual number of rains seems to an eastern visitor strangely small. The average rainfall in Southern Arizona, as 'hown by the Government observations, is put S1 inches per year.
 IS ITAPLACE FIT TO LIVE IN?
 This depends on what one expects in a | luge, parsely settled Territory of mount | .ins and deserts. The man who looks for | 'ither the beauty or the seductive excite nent of Monte Carlo will not find it. As title will he find the historic remains or | he cosmopolitan attractions of Egypt; nor | ould he reasonable expect the amusements nd luxuries of our own Eastern cities. The 'eople of Arizona are still chiefly busy in he pioneer work of subduing it to the esidence and uses of civilized man. But has two transcontinental lines Of railw ay Vith numerous feeders; it has fast mails. nd rival telegraph lines, and is throbbing 7ith the intense life of the splendid West.
 The two principal towns in the south m portion, chiefly sought for their climatic dvantages, are Phoenix and Tucson. Each them has ten thousand inhabitants ar lore. They have the electric light, tele- hones' trolley cars, plenty of hotels, anks, bookstores, good schools, churches. n occasional theatrical performance. some. ines lecture or circus, often a horse ice, and, in the spring. a thoroughly lrious and interesting "tiesta" For tbe est, people must take their amusements lth them. Good horses are abundant 1d cheap. and there are plenty of cow genuine article-to show what orses can do. The driving for fifteen or yenty miles in almost any direction from hoenix, is nearly always easy. The roads e apt to be dusty; but there IS one well. 'rinkled drive of six or eight miles: and ( nee the winds are quite regular in their rection, it IS rarely difficult to choose a ute on which the dust will be largely c rricd away from you. The unbroken t