The Arizona sentinel., 1899-03-25


 country which cannot exist in older com nunities.
 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 
 Because Arizona's boom is yet to come.
 CAN ONT. LIVE COMFORTABLY?
 That again depends on what you expect. You cannot Ia, the luxuries of our New York houses out there, unless you builc one; or the variety of our New York 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 brick cottages of eight or ten rooms can occasinally by rented. Bet ter than nysof 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 ID 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 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 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- ditiOns 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 a 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 e.6OO,; the Sulphur Spring Valley, or Fort Grant, 4,2O0; Fort Huachuca. 4,SOO, or Oracle, about 4,G00.
 WHICH TOWN IS Tile 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 comparatively low temperature is desired, Prescott is in picturesque region, near a great mining districts, and has the social advantage of an army post, whipple Barracks. az staff IS still higher, is in a region of lse pine forests, and is within 2. hard .y's journey of one of the wonders of the Id, the Colorado Canyor Oracle is .tty mountain nook, powered in splendid live oaks, like J ,se of California, and is also near an Aportant mining district If lower altitude and a distinctly semi 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 are thoroughly comfort able. It's newer houses are of a handsome building stone, found in the vicinity. The Territorial University is lere, 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 no irrigation near it, the air is a 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 1t 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 hospitable community. They will find country full of mines, full of rich agricultural lands,. abounding in cattle and hor,es, in vineyards and orchards and the beginnings of very successful orange groves "a country, in fact, as full of promise for hardy and adventurous men now as Califor- nia was in the fifties. Above all, it has been their lot to search for health in far countries, they will revel in the luxury of being in their own land, among their own within easy reach of their friends by telegraph or rail, and in q climate IS good of it's kind as any in the world.
 ACTU.E Irrr,I1Drrv
 This Is eNtren ely slight, everywhere in Arlzoua, as compared with any eastern climate in the United States. The air is triest on the high mesas, remote from 5nowclad mountains or forests, and in the loscrt valleys, where 10 considerable irri-