The Arizona sentinel., 1899-11-18
WHY CAPITAL SHOULD SEEK YUMA COUNTY Because it's mines are the richest.


 productive.
 Because it gives assurance of the largest returns on money invested.
 Because it's grand resources are yet to be developed
 Because it is young, growing county 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 a demand for additional facilities for ore reduction.
 Because there are vast stretches of rich 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 ot artesian wells.
 Because there are many openings in a new country which cannot exist in older com. munities
 Because the opportunities for engaging in the successful cultivation of semi-tropi 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. 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 the variety of our New York markets, unless you charater a 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 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 Septem. Der Tn the Adirondacks can camp out 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 are the fattening 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 venison from the vicinity can | also be had. Vegetables and fruits are abundant in their season, and sometimes the season is a long one. It is the one country I have lived in where strawberries 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- ditlons 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 thousand feet at Phoenix, or of only 2.4OO at Tucson. Others, who find no objection to greater elevations, can choose between Prescott or Fort Whipple, 5,4OO; Flag staff. 6,8OO,; the Sulphur Spring Valley, or Fort Grant, 4,200; Fort Huachuca. 4.SOO. or Oracle, about 4,OOO.
 WHICH TOWN IS Tile BEST?
 Primarily that is question for the phy 'ician, if there is physician in the case f not. try them all. If a mountain region, altitude and a comparatively ow temperature is desired, Prescott is in picturesque region, near a great mining districts, and has the social advantag. of ln army post, whipple Barracks az tatf IS still higher, is in region of 1se 'ine forests, and is within p~hard y's ourney of one of the wonders of the Id. he Colorado Canyon Oracle is r .ttv mountain nook, powered in splendid i've oaks, like ,se of California, and is lso near an Aportant mining district. lower altitude and a distinctly semi. ropleal climate are desired, the three places lost likely to be considered are Yuma ucson and Phoenix. The first is near the "a level; IS the warmest and probably the riest of the three, has the least population, nd the smallest provision for visitors. ucson is the oldest town in the Territory nd, after Santa Fe, perhaps the oldest in . le Southwest. Its adobe houses give it a -exican look, and are thoroughly comfort I ole. Its newer houses are of a handsome lilding stone, found in the vicinity. The 6 University is ere, and it was rmerly the capital Its elevation being ! ore than double that of Phoenix. it is mewhat cooler, and as there is next to TO r1gatlon near 1t, the air is a little drier. loenlX IS the centre of the greatest irriga- o '1 i4-SIIo Territory. The country for v lies around smiles with green fields, cover n with almost countless herds of cattle, n d 1t Is everywhere shut in by low mount t- IS. It IS the Territorial capital, has the 2 'vernment Indian School, the Territorial ] matte Asylum, and other institutions, b IS the general focus for the Territory. u ke Tucson, it has it's occasional wind and l Id storms-perhaps not quite so often. n either place visitors who know how to " apt themselves to circumstances can be 5lrely comfortable, and in each they will O d an intelligent, orderly, enterprising and