The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-28
THE PEOPLE SAY

1 Will you kindly allow me space in your paper for a few words concern ing the great possibilities Of the diff ferent climates of the United States. affecting relief and in a great many cases permanent cure of bronchial, rheumatic and heart aIlment.
 New Hampshire Is my native state, but in 1878, my parents moved to Minnesota, when I was at the age of eight years, and where I grew to man hood.
 Once in my boyhood, the memory is still fresh i1l my mind when, ow- ing to a threatened Indian outbreak,
 my father moved us all into town for the sake of better protection. While in Minnesota, I lived on d farm. but still had a little time for hunting and trapping; and once from taking q shot at the largest bear I ever saw in the Minnesota woods, I almost brought on rough and tumble, which. how ever was averted by the fifth ar fatal shot from my Winchester. Ha T fifth shot, I would not now be writ ing these lines.
 Previous to moving to Minrr-ota, my father was afflicted with asthma, but the change of climate affected permanent cure.
 Later on, my parents made a sec ond move and this time to the Paci- fife Northwest, where in the state of Washington, spent some time farm i~g. While there l met q Colorado nan, and in conversation, asked how he lAed the Pacific coast. His re- ply WIS that he could not very well go back on the country, as he had come there only three weeks before, afflicted with heart trouble, and dur ing that time he believed he was cured
 Later I took p claim in Central Oregon, the country so much adver- used by the transcontinental rail- ways, as bein5 the settlers Fl Dorado, where the great counties of Harney and Malheur, each as large as the state of Massachusetts, are even now nearly half vacant government land. Here a. settler can hOmstead 320 acres. and also file on another 1tO acres under the Desert Land Act making a total of 4SO acres. And all he has to do is to go there, and i'm prove his land, and make his home during the length of time required by the Government. Then he can prove up, and get his title, and he is the owner of 480 acres of land. Sounds nice when you read it, but don't bite, unless you are sure of what you are biting on.
 However it is one of tho best stock countries in the L. S. While there I met a. rancher who owned 21,O0O sheep. and 10000 horses.
 It is a very healthful climate, but if you have any heart trouble keep out of it as the altitude is high.
 While there I became very well ac- quainted with an old man who went there i'll with tuberculosis, thirty-four years previous. and was permanently cured. Bear in mind that with all the clear air, and the vaunted three hun dred days of sunshine of Central Ore- gon. all one needs is to cross the Cas- cade Range, and he will find an a1- together different climate: a winter of rain. fog, and cloudy days, with a temperature seldom below freezing: green lawns and blossontng flowers the year around. I saw strawberries in blossom there in January, and if 1t were not for the rainy season, the Willamette Valley would be one of tIle best climates on earth and it is not so bad even with the rain.
 Here in Southern Arizona are hun dreds even thousands of health seek CTS especially during the winter months which remind one of the months of September and October in the North. A majority of the health seekers are tuberculosis sufferers; others with rheumatism, bronchitis, hay fever. asthma, and others simply failing health. Of course thay do not all get well, and some are not even benefited, but q very great majority of the afflicted who come into the warm, dry, air of the Southwest are greatly benefited or permanently cured and there would be a. great many more permanent cures if the sufferers would make the change as soon as the first symptoms of disease were discovered, instead of putting it off and waiting until the last minute. Even at that l know personally of one case. that of patient brought in on a bed, unable to walk a step, and the last time I saw him, he was on the road to recovery. But such recoveries are the exception.
 Southern Nevada Is also a dry, l warm and very healthfuI climate. I have written this letter hoping l that it may Bs of some assistance to those who wish to make a change of climate for their health, and if Tnere
 be any further information that I can | give, I will gladly answer every letter that is accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope.
 A. P. PRESCOTT. Tnes-a> Arizona-