Arizona republican., 1917-06-17
By G. M. Sparkes, Secretary Yavapai County Chamber Of Commerce,
 Prescott Arizona

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 Of all Arizona, Prescott, and Yava- pal county, justly claim the best year round climate, possessing factors com bined to make outdoor living a real pleasure. It is due particularly to the altitude of this favored section that the foregoing is true In spite of a growing comprehension of Yavapai county's climatic superiority over more noted health resorts, it cannot be emphasized too strongly that it possesses an entirely separate entity, climatically, from the lower or desert region of the state; that in it's moun- tainous sections around Prescott, Crown King, and Groom Creek, it is everywhere cool in summer, and vary ing from mild to cold in winter, ac- cording to elevation: and, that in it's low-lying parts such as the Verde Valley and around Castle Hot Springs, all the advantages of the balmy win ter climate of the desert are available, while at Mayer, Kirkland, Congress Junction and other intermediate points varieties of climate may be found suit able to the taste and needs of all classes of tourists.
 One of the great advantages of the climate of Yavapai county is the purity and constant motion of the air, 'Sfding evaporation of moisture from the surface of the body. The almost absolute seclusion from high winds so prevalent in some resorts is another factor. Yavapai county combines the advantages of abundant sunshine, slight rainfall, a sufficient altitude and a good climate during the whole year. As the prevailing wind is from the southwest, the air of Yavapai county must travel over hundreds of miles of low lying, sun baked desert, render ing it pure and dry
 County All of Interest
 The area of Yavapai county is S150 square miles. It holds within it's con- fines, mile for mile as much of inter- est to the sight-seer as any other sec tion of the world. The archaeologist and the mineralogist have scarcely scratched the surface of this treasure vault. Fame awaits the artist who can faithfully depict upon his canvas it's crags and canyons, pits pine-clad mountains and it's rolling mesas. Ma ture has wrought in close compan- ionship all of that rugged charm that attracts in the Garden of the Gods and other Meccas of world-interest, and has added many noble monu- ments singular to Arizona. Its cliff and cave dwellings and hieroglyphic records are held by experts to be as old as the Pyramids of Egypt and of equal interest to those who delve in the lore of unknown peoples.
 Arizona is divided, physically, into three regions-plateau, mountain and desert. Northern Arizona comprises the plateau and mountain regions. and in the center of the mountain region is Yavapai county. Prescott, the county seat, is situated nearly in the exact geographical center of the state. Yavapai county lies immediately southwest of the rim of the highest plateau region; it's average altitude being about 20O0 feet less.
 Mother of Counties
 Yavapai county is known as the Mother of Arizona counties, because it was in Prescott, in 1863, that the first territorial capital and county seat of Arizona were established. At that time Yavapai covered nearly half the area of Arizona. Great slices have