The Arizona sentinel., 1898-12-31

of trees and shrubs which would reqnifg five years to develop in colder cline.
 Because fortunes hero 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 invigoratinQ air. epidemic diseases cannot live or germinate
 Because it's people are generous, liberal. hospitable and progressive. WHY CAPITAL SHOULD SEEK YUMA COUNTY.
 Because it's 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 its grand resources are vet to be developed.
 Because it is young, growing county with an assured future.
 becauss 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 demand for additional facilities for ore reduction.
 Because there are vast stretches of r;c,, 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 cam. munities.
 because the opportunities for engaging in the successful cultivation of ssmi-tran;, fruits are better than in any other part the United States.
 Because property values are rapidly ad. vaneing.
 Because Arizona's boom is yet to come, CAN ONE LIVE COMFORTABLY?
 That again depends on what you expect. You cannot have the luxuries of our New York houses out there, unless you build one; or tho 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 houses of more kinds than one; and br1ck 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, is to on the desert; and he who knows how ''camp out" with comfort through Septen. Der In the Adirondacks can camp ont 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 arc the fattening ground for the great cattle ranges of the Territory. From there the markets of Los Angeles and even of Denver | oAC A"ASSA1 SNPPAASu, OOOu Octlg uutLO1 and poultry are plenty and cheap. Quail, ducks and venison from the vicinity can also be had. Vegetables and frnits are abundant in their season, and sometimes the season is long one. It is the one country 1 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 l ATTITUDES.
 It IS striking advantage offered by Arizona that, with the same general con- ditiOns as to temperature and dryness of air, the physician is able to select nearly any altitude he may desire. Thus, asth- matic sufferers can find almost the sea | level at Yuma, or an altitude of only a thousand feet at Phoenix, or of only 2, 400 at Tucson. Others, who find no objection to greater elevations, can choose between Prescott or Fort Whipple, 5,4OO; Flag staff, 6,S00,; the Sulphur Spring Valley, or Fort Grant, 4,200; Fort Huaehuca. 1, 1900, or Oracle, about 1, 1000.