The Arizona sentinel., 1898-08-20
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The OnIy FluS LO CdAe WILL dOou OdlSdPdE4l4d" 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 its pure, dry invigorating air. epidemic diseases cannot live or qerminate
 Because its people are generous, liberal hOspitable and progressive.
 WHY CAPITAL SHOULD SEEK YUMA COUNTY. Because its mines are the richest.
 Because it's grazing lands are the best.
 Because its farming lands are valuable and productive.
 Because 1t gives assurance of the largest returns on money invested.
 Because it's grand resources are vet +o bo developed
 Because it is young, growing ceuntv 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 demand for additional facilities for ore reduction.
 Because there are vast stretches of rich soll to be reclaimed by the construction of irrigating canals.
 Because there are large tracts of grass lands that can be utilized by the sinking ot : artesian wells.
 | because there are many openings in new country which cannot exist in older con- munities.
 Because the opportunities for engaging in p the successful cultivation of semi-tropi- fruits are better than in any other part the United States. Because property values are rapidly ad. e vancing.
 . Because Arizona's boom is yet to come. Because it is a virgin field, ready for ths CAN ONE LIVE COMFORTABLY? r That again depends on what you expect c 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 h 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 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 Scptem. = Der Tn the Adirondacks can camp ont in S Arizona through the winter. n As to food, there is plenty, and it is
 good-if you can get it well cooked. The V alfalfa fields of the Salt River Valley are n the fattening ground for the great cattle e ranges of the Territory. From there the il markets of Los Angeles and even of Denver le are largely supplied, Good beef, mutton v and poultry are plenty and cheap. Quail, ,r ducks and venison from the vicinity can lg also be had. Vegetables a1d fruits are ne abundant in their season, and sometimes ne the season is a long one. It is the one
 country I have lived in where awberries , ripen in the open air ten months in the
 year. l have had them on my table, fresh
 picked from the open garden at Christmas .
 ATTITUDES.
 It Is striking advantage oGered by Ie Arizona that, with the same general con-
 ditions as to temperature and dryness of Is air, the physician is able to select nearly
 any altitude he may desire. Thus, asth- as matic sufferers can find almost the sea
 level at Yuma, or an altitude of only a re thousand feet at Phoenix, or of only 2,4Oo
 at Tucson. Others, who find no objection m to greater elevations, can choose between ,r Prescott or Fort Whipple, 5,400; Flag
 staff, 6,SOO,; the Sulphur Spring Valley, or d Fort Grant, 1, 200; Fort Huachuca. 4,s00,
 or Oracle, about 4,OOO