The Arizona sentinel., 1899-02-18

acres, now prohtless, car be made productive by construction Of irrigatng ditches. and there is no investment which assures larger ar roo-e permanent returns"
 IS TT LAWLESS COUNTRY?
 The man Who goes to any considerable Arizona town With the idea of the Sonth- west derived from novels, or from ''rha Arizona Kicker" will be greatly mYstifed. He will Gnd as many churches as in towns of corresponding size in Pennsylvania pr Ohio; and probably more schoolhouses. He will ind plenty of liqnor-snops. too, and i gambling houses, and Gancebouses, and yet l he will see little disorder unless he hunts | lete at night for it, and he will be apt to 1 dnd-as it PhOenix-a community of ten 1 Cusand people requiring in the day time only one policeman, and hardly requiring 1 him. During my winter there I did not see single disturbance in the streets. or I half dozen drunken men, all told. Min. tug men and an occasional cowboy certainly 1 had quarrels, sometimes, in the disorderly | quarters at night; and there were stories of the use Of the knife among Mexicsns; l but the visitor who went about his own business had as little trouble as on Board way or Chestnut street The Pima and Maricopa Indians, who are encountered everywhere. have been friendly with the whites for generations, and there isn't an Apache within gone hundreds of miles. RAIN.
 Showers, and indeed heavy rains are liable to occur in every month of the year; but the actual number of rains seems to an eastern visitor strangely small. The average rainfall in Southern Arizona, as shown by the Gov ernment observations. is but S11a inches per year.
 IsITk DLACE FIT TO LIVE IN?
 This depen0~ |n what one expects in a huge, parsely s,. led Territory of mount aims and deserts. he man who looks fol either the beauty O. he seductive excite ment of Monte Carlo i'll not find it. As little will he find the historic remains CT the cosmopolitan attractions of Egypt; nol conld he reasonable expect the amusements and luxuries of onr own Eastern cities The people of Arizona are still chiefly busy il the pioneer work of subduing it to thi residence and uses Of civilized man. Bnt it has two trauscontinental lines Of reilv ay with numerous feeders; it has fast mails. and rival telegraph lines, and is throbbing with the intense life of the splendid West
 The two principal towns in the south ern portion, chiefly ught for their cl;,na ti, advantages, are Phoeuix and Tucson. Eacf of them has ten thousand inhabitants ol more. They have the electric light, tele- phones, trolley ears, plenty of hotels, banks, bookstores, good schools, churches an occasional theat~;"al performance, some
 times lecture ol ircus, often hors, race, and, in tie spring. thorough !, curious and interesting "Gesta." For thC cost, people must take their amusement
 with them. Coed horses are abandan
 and cheap. and there are plenty Of cow boys-the genuine article-to show wha horses can do. The driving for fifteen G
 twenty miles in almost any direction iron
 Phoenix, is nearly always easy. The road are apt to be dusty; but there IS enc well sprinkled drive of six CT eight miles; anC since the winds are quite regular iD thei direction, it is rarely difficult to choose route or which the dust will be largcl,
 car.;cd away frOrI you. The unbrokel desert itself ia often as easy to drive owe as an Eastern highway, and the uhol
 valley is paradise for bicyclers, or eques
 trians.