The Arizona sentinel., 1900-01-24
WHY CAPITAL SHOULD SEEK YUMA COUNTY

Because it gives assurance of the largest returns on money invested.
 Because its grand resources are yet to be developed.
 Because it is young, growing county with an assured future.
 Because the opportunities for engaging in manufacturing enterprises are better than in any other region of the West.
 Because good mining properties can be had ut reasonable figures.
 Because there IS demand for additional facilities for ore reduction.
 Because there are vast stretches of rich soil to be reclaimed by the 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-tropi fruits are better than in any other part the United States.
 Because property values are rapidly ad vancing.
 because Arizona's boom is vet 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 ths variety of our New York markets, unless you charater a refrigerator car. But there are hotels with almost 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 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 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 8 long one. It is the one country have lived in where strawberries ripen in 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 a 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, CT 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, 6,S0O,; the Sulphur Spring Valley, or Fort Grant, 4,20O; Fort Huachuca. 4, 500, | or Oracle, about 1, 1000.
 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 a mountain region. considerable altitude and comparatively low temperature is desired, Prescott is in a picturesque region, near great mining districts. and has the social advaHtags of an army post, whipple Barracks. ] az staff IS still higher, is in region of lse pine forests, and is within .. hard ,y's journey of one of the wonders of the Id, the Colorado Canyon Oracle is a r: ,tty mountain nook, powered in splendid 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 1riest of the three, has the least population, md the smallest provision for visitors Tucson is the oldest town in the Territory. ( md, after Santa Fe, perhaps the oldest in he Southwest. Its adobe houses give it a : Mexican look, and are thoroughly comfort Lble. Its newer houses are of a handsome $ building stone, found in tho vicinity. The ( Territorial University is l ere, and it was { ormerly the capital Its elevation being nore than double that of Phoenix, it is omewhat cooler, and as there is next to no irrigation near it, the air is a little drier. | 'hoenix is the centre of the greatest irriga- ion in the Territory. The country for liles around smiles with green fields, cover- with almost countless herds of cattle, nd it is everywhere shut in by low mount s ns. It is the Territorial capital, has the fl overnment Indian School, the Territorial o unatic Asylum, and other institutions, ld is the general focus for the Territory ike Tucson, it has it's occasional wind and it nd storms-perhaps not quite so often. \ t either place visitors who know how to e, lapt themselves to circumstances can be f. ltirely comfortable, and in each they will Id an intelligent, orderly, enterprising and o' ost hospitable community. They will D