The Arizona sentinel., 1899-04-01

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-trepi fruits are better than in any other part the United States.
 Because property values are rapidly ad vaneing.
 Because Arizona's boom is yet to come.
 CAN ONT LIVE CoS- -toRTABLY?
 That again depends on what you expect You cannot ka,e the luxuries of our New York houses out there, unless you builc one; or th- variety of our New YorI markets, unless you cbarater 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 plnck to take it, is to
 on the desert; and he who knows how
 ''eamp out" with comfort through Septem Der Tn the Adirondacks can camp out in Aiizona 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 se1son is a long one. It is the one country l 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 Chris sn ATTITUDES.
 It Is a striking advantage offered by Arizona that, with tue 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 th, sea level at Yuma, or an altitude of only thousand feet at'Phoenix, or of only 2,40O at tucson. Others, who find no objection to greater elevations, can choose betweer Prescott or Fort Whipple. 5,4OO; Flag staff' 6,S00,; the Sulphur Spring Valley, or Fort Grant, 4,20O; Fort Huachuca. 4, ,sO0. or Ordcle, about 4, coo
 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 comparatively low temperature is desired, Prescott is in picturesque region, near great mining districts, and has the social advaatap. of an army post, whipple Barracks az staff IS still higher, Is in region of 1se pine forests, and is within hard y's journey of one of the wonders of the V Id, the Colorado Canyor Oracle is .tty mountain nook, powered in spltndid live oaks, like .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. Its newer houses are of q handsome building stone, found in the vicinity. The nitorial 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 no | irrigation near it, the air is a little drier. 1 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, 1 and 1t IS everywhere shut in by low mount aims. It is the Territorial capital, has the Government Indian School, the Territorial l 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. l At either place visitors who know how to | adapt themselves to circumstances can be | entirely comfortable, and in each they will 1 find an intelligent, orderly, enterprisine and most hospitabIe community. They will flnd 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- ma was Tn the fifties. Above all, it has been their lot to seaFch for health ill tar countries, they will revel in the luxury of being ln their own land, among their own countrymen, within easy reach of their friends by telegraph or rail- and in a climate as good of it's kind as any in the world.
 ACTUAL HUMIDITY.
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