The Arizona sentinel., 1899-11-11
WHY CAPITAL SHOULD SEEK YUMA COUNTY

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 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 fer additional facilities for ore reduction.
 Because there are vast stretches of rich soil to be reclaimed by she 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 com. munities.
 Because the opportunities for engaging in the successful cultivation of semi-trepi 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 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 brlck 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 we'll cooked. The alfalfa Gelds 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 Q long one It is the one country l have lived in where straw berries rlpen m 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 offered bv Arizona that, with the same general con- dltions as to temperature and dryness of air, the physician is able to select nearly any altitude he may desire. Thus. astb. matlc sufferers can find almost the sea level at Yuma, or an altitude of only q thousand feet at Phoenix, or of only 2.4OO at Tucson. Others, who find no obiection to greater elevations, can choose betweer Prescott or Fort Whipple. 5,4OO; Flag s'an' o'oOo'; the Sulphur Spring Valley, or Fort Grant, 4,200; Fort Huachuca. 4. 500 or Oracle, about 4, 1000. V
 WHICH TOWN IS THe BEST?
 Primarily that is a question for the nbv- sician, if there is physician in the case 'f not, try them all. If a mountain re rion considerable altitude and comparativeIv low temperature is desired. Presoott is in picturesque region, near a great minine uiS'ric's' and has the social advaAtag. of an army post, whipple Barracks. so- staff IS still higher, is in a region If ,so pine forests, and is within 2. hard .v,s Journey ot one of the wonders of the Id. the Colorado Canyor Oracle is q ,tty mountain nook, powered in snIeodid live oaks, like .se of California. and is also near an Aportant mining district. II lower altitude and a distinctly semi tropical climate are desired, the three nIaceo most likely to be considered are Yuma tucson and Phoenix. The first is near tbe sea level; IS the warmest and probably the drlest of the three, has the least popplatio, 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 p;ve # Mexican look, and are thoroughly comfort aoIe' It's newer houses are of a bandsouo building stone, found in tho vicinity The territorial University is fere. and i, w iorLnerly the capital. It's elevation beino more than double that of Phoenix if ;S somewhat cooler, and as there is next to m irrigation near it, the air is littla 5r;ar fhoenlx IS the centre of the greatest irriga- 'ion Tn the Territory. The country for miles around smiles with green fields. cover- Cd With almost countless herds of cattle ana It IS everywhere shut in by low mount @ins. It IS tae Territorial capital. has the Government Indian School, the Territoria 1 Lunatis Asylum, and other institutions 1no Is the general focus for the Territory Like Tucson, 1t has its occasional wind and sAno storms-perhaps not quite so often At either place visitors who know how to ~oapS themselves to circumstances can be entirely comfortable, and in each they will ma an intelligent, orderly, enterprising and most h0Spitable community. They will ma country full of mines, full of rich agricultural lands, abounding in eattI. and