The Arizona sentinel., 1899-03-18
WHY CAPITAL SHOULD SEEK YUMA COUNTY

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 he had at reasonable figures.
 Because there IS 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 new country which cannot exist in older com munities.
 Because the opportunities for engaging ir the successful cultivation of semi-tropi fruits are better than in any ether part the United States.
 Because property values are rapidly ad vancing.
 Because Arizona's boom is yet to come.
 CAN ONT LIVE CoA-fORTAELY?
 That again depends on what you expect You cannot ha, the luxuries of our New York houses out there, unless you builc one; or thg variety of our New YorE 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 dese,ts, 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 ont with comfort through Septem- Der Ill the Adirondacks can camp out in A izona 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 eison is a long one. It is the one country 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 Christnla 8
 ATTITUDES.
 It's striking advantage offered by Arizona that, with the same general con ditions as to temperature and dryness oi 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 2,40C 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, 4,20O; Fort Huachuca. 4,SO0 or Oracle, about 4,00O.
 WHICH TOWN IS THe BEST?
 Primarily that is question for the phy sician, if there is a physician in the case if not, try them all. If mountain region considerable altitude and a comparatively low temperature is desired, Prescott is ir a picturesque region, near great mining districts, and has the social advaAtao: oi an army post, whipple Barracks. ag- staff IS still higher, is in a region of lSe pine forests, and is within ? hard y'S journey of one of the wonders of the Id, the Colorado Canyon Oracle is a :tty mountain nook, powered in splCndid live oaks, like ,se ot California. and is also near an Aportant mining district
  tropical climate are desired, the three places most likely to be considered are Yuma, Tucson and Phoenix The first is near the sea level; is the warmest and probably the driest of the three, has the least population, and the smallest provision for visitors. Tucson is the oldest town in the Territory and, after Santa Fe, perhaps the oldest in the Southwest. Its adobe houses give it a Mexican look, and arc thoroughly comfort able. Its newer houses are of a handsome building stone, found in the vicinity. The Territorial University is ere, and it was formerly the capital Its elevation being more than double that of Phoenix, it is somewhat cooler, and as there is next to nc irrigation near it, the air is little drier Phoenix is the centre of the greatest irriga- tion in the Territory. The country for miles around smiles with green fields, cover ed with almost countless herds of cattle, and it is everywhere shut in by low mount aims. It is the Territorial capital, has the Government Indian School, the Territorial Lunatic Asylum, and other institutions, and is the general focus for the Territory Like Tucson, it has it's occasional wind and sand storms-perhaps not quite so often. At either place visitors who know how to adapt themselves to circumstances can be entirely comfortable, and in each they will find an intelligent, orderly, enterprising and most hospitabIe community. They will find a country full of mines, full of rich agricultural lands, abounding in cattle and horees, in vineyards and orchards and the beoinninns of very s1ccns.f,,l crnnno ct,n,-ns