The Arizona sentinel., 1899-12-09

=. .--.-AAS-.-...- April. The same reports sho" the tiGhea. and lowest temperatures, arerage' r. eight years. at the same place, as follows: For November 781 degrees and 42 degrees, December 731s degrees and 36H degrees, January 65l degrees and g degrees, Feb- ruary 7lL degrees and 35H de rees. March Sl1S degrees and Il degrees and April S61l degrees and 46 degrees. The nights throughout the winter are apt to be cool enough for open wood fires, and for blankets. Half the time an overcoat is net needed during the day, but it is never prudent for a stranger to be without one at hand
 The atmosphere IS singulariy clear, tonic and dry. l have never seen it clearer anyw here in the world. It seems to have about the same bracing and exhilarating qualities as the air of the Great Sahara in Northern Africa, or of the deserts about Mount Sinai, in Arabia Petraea. It is much drier than in the parts of Morocco, Algiers or Tunis usually visited, and drier than any part of the Valley of the Nile north of the First Cataract. It seems to me about the same in quality as the air on the Nile between Assouan and Wady. Halfa, but somewhat cooler.
 ARIZONA.
 Arizona stands at the threshold of an era of wonderful social anl industrial de. veiopment. There can't be doubt about the fact The dawn for which she has waited 80 long is breaking at last There is every promise of day of great pros perity and permanent upbuilding just be- fore her. The impulse of a new and eneI gizing hope is visible everywhere among her people while the cumulative effect of many things, which made but small i'm precision as they trarspired singly, is now commanding for her full share of atten- tion and interest abroad among home seekers and capitalists.
 4 lively competition has sprung up foi the possession of things which have hereto. fore gone a-begging for ownership. There is scramble for franchises. Nothing nor: surely indicates great industrial awaken ing than this. The rates of interest arc falling to moderate figures. Nothing more | l,,s sr,1i nd among the money lend IS than this. ] Arizona has reachet that climacticel period which every western state has ex perienced sometime in its history when after long and weary struggle and doubt with each side of the balance first up anC then down. the clouds of despondenc! have suddenly rolled away, and a sunhurs of energiziug hope has thrilled the droop ing spirits of the people to greater anr braver endeavor than before.
 For the last twelve years the subsidcnc' of the great Tombstone boom and the com pletion of two transcontinental lines 0 railroad across her territort rt-Arizona ha rati.er dropped out of public attention but in that time she has been quietly ac cumulatiag fund of substantial weslti and a force Of moral character whici qualify her now to rise ur and take he destiny in her own hands.
 The population of Arizona is Mexican This is mistake of great importance fro'. the moral point of view. There is but on' considerable center of Mexican population in the territory. the city of Tucson, ant even there it is not by any means at pres ent the predominating element. It thinl it is cer tain that arizona has not to-day nearly so large a Mexican population al Colorado and not above one-tenth as mucl as New McxiCo.- -"Fitz- Mac," in Denve 1 News