The Arizona sentinel., 1900-02-07

April. The same reports show the highest and lowest temperatures, averaged for eight years, at the same place, as follow For November 7S1% degrees and 42 degrees- December 731a degrees and 361a degrees January G511a degrees and B degrees Feb ruary 7l1a degrees and 35H de rees, March 8l1I degrees and 4l degrees and April S61l degrees and 46 degrees. The nights throughout the winter are apt to bc cool enough for open wood fires, and to blankets. Half the time an oYercoat Is not needed during the day, but it Is never prudent for a stranger to be without one at hand
 The atmosphere Is singularly clear, tonic and dry. 1 have never seen 1t clearer anyw here in the world. It seems to have about the same bracing and exhilarating qualities as the air of the Great Sahara ln Northern Africa, or of the deserts about Mount Sinai, in Arabia Petraea. It is much drier than Tn the parts of Morocco Algiers or Tunis usually visited, and drier than any part of the Valley of the Nile north of the First Cataract. It seems to me about the same in quality as tbe air on the Nile between Assouan and Wady- Halfa, but somewhat cooler.
 ARIZONA.
 irizona stands at the threshold of an era of wonderful social an1 industrial de- veiopment There can't be doubt about the fact The dawn for which she has waited so long is breaking at last. There is every promise of day of great pros perity and permanent upbuilding just be- i foIe her. The impulse of a new and enel gizing hope is visible every where among her people. while the cumulative effect ot many things, which made but small i'm pression as they transpired siugly, is now commanding for her full share of atteu- 1 ton and interest abroad among home seekers and capitalists.
 i 4 lively competition has sprung up for the possession of things which have hereto fore gone a-begging for ownership. There 1 is a scramble for franchises. Nothing mora surely indicates great industrial awaken ing than this. The rates of interest are falling to moderate figures. Nothing more surely indicates confidence and competition among the money lend IS than this. : Arizona has reachet that climacticel period which every western state has ex peIenced sometime in its history when after long and weary struggle and doubt with each side of the balance first up anG then down, t.e clouds of deapondency have suddenly rolled away, and sunhurst of energiziug hope has thrilled the droop ing spirits of the people to greater allc braver endeavor than before.
 For the last twelve years the subsistence 'of the great Tombstone boom and the com pletion of two transcontinental lines O. railroad across her territory-Arizona ha' rather dropped out of public attention but in that time she has been quietly ac cumulating fund of substantial wealti and a force of moral character whicl qualify her now to rise ur and take hel destiny in her own hands.
 The popula5io of Arizona is Mexican This is mistake of great importance fro'- the moral point of view. There is but on' considerable center of Mexican population in the territory, the city of Tucson, ana even there it is not by any means at pres ent the predOminating element. It thml it is certain that arizona has not to-day nearly so large a Mexican population a' Colorado and not above one-tenth as mucl as New Mcxico.- >"Fitz- Mac," in Denver News.