Arizona republican., 1899-02-13
No Other Winter Resort Can
 Compare With Phoenix.
IS CLIMATE MOST BALMY
Wh1f an English GiobS Tr0ffer Has 10 Say of If - Experience or a Hotel Man in Blizzard Swept CoiOradO-GI1d 10 Return Here.
 People are Never Buried Under AValanCheS in Southern Arizona.

You cannot do too much to keep the advantages of the marvellous climate of Phoenix and the Salt River valley be- fore the people, and especially just now when they are having such awfully cold weather in the east,'' said Miles w. Gibbons, a well known mining man, yesterday And do you know the people of Phoenix well may talk about their wonderful climate to the exclusion of almost every other topic"
 q have been an extensive traveller, have been three times around the world and have spent from six months to two years in every noted resort of the world and I say it without fear of contradiction that the climate of the Salt River valley Of Arizona is the most equitable, and the best for in valids to be found on the globe
 Do you really think it excels the climate of the Riviera, MT. Gibbons. or that of Algiers?'
 Certainly it does Why, on the Riviera or at Nice every room has a grate and a cold wind will come off the seat that reduces the temperature twenty degrees in as many minutes and every visitor has to take to his room and a fire. So it is in Italy and all along the Mediterranean. Besides that the humidity is so much greater than you have here. The air is never lcr lNo11 T You have changes here, but no sudden changes as they have any place that is near the sea"
 But in Algiers the air is dry and balmy?"
 Yes, it is after you get away from the Mediterranean, but what do you find then; great sand storms from the Sa- hara which keep the air constantly filled with sand And it is the same in South Africa. The great place for English doctors to send their consump- tive patients now is Blumfontaine. in the Orange Free State, South Africa. True it has a fine climate for a few weeks each year but the trade winds with their sand carry death to the in
 
 the first of August to the middle of September and again from the first of March till the middle of April Dur ing all the period of their continuance the air is filled with very fine sand and the sun looks like great bronze disk instead of the clear, bright sun you have here.
 win I years lies 25 degrees south of the equa- tor but it is subject to these same trade winds with sand that BIumfontaine is Cape Colony is delightful at times but in the midst Of beautiful days there will come a violent sou 'wester direct from the ices of the Antarctic and I have seen the temperature fall 40 de- grees in four or five hours Now you know invalids cannot stand such changes in temperature as that
 How about Australia and New Zea- land?"
 The principal points in Australia have the same objection as those of South Africa. Melbourne and Sidney are all the year round resorts but the wind blows hot and cold resulting in sudden changes of temperature which are very severe. A sou easter causes a great drop in the temperature and a nOr'Wester comes off the deserts of northern and western Australia a reg ular hot blast accompanied by sand that is at times almost suffocating. Aukland, New Zealand, has next to the Salt River valley the most equit- able climate I have ever found. but like all seaports it is damp there. Robert Louis Stevenson went to Sa- noa for his health, ostensfbly, and yet 1e himself said he went there to die. The climate of Apia is delightful, but IS 1 just said of Aukland the humidity s very high. And so it is in Japan
 Florida has not the difference be- ween night and day that you have lere but it has greater humidity and topical levers and malaria of which ,ou are free. So with the Bahamas They are in the path of the Gulf tream and the humidity of the atmos- 'here is very great. Vapor arises rom this warm stream like steam rom kettle of hot water. Take to- ay, for instance, and what more ir as afforded here.
 q want also to speak of the sum ner climate. T spent last summer ere, being in Phoenix sixty days of he ninety of July, August and Sep amber. True it is warm here but the eat is never oppressive. You never