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ARIZONA AS A HEALTH 

 RESORT. 



A. \v . Craig, H, D., Piioeiiix, Arizona, 



Arizona may not be the richest of 

 the nation's possessions, and there 

 are more inhabitants in the single 

 city of Milwaukee than are to be 

 found in the entire territory, but in 

 the matter of climate she has no 

 equal. 



Located between two great rang- 

 es of the Rocky Mountains is a vast 

 plateau, as significant in its climat- 

 ography as any ocean. The rela- 

 tions of the immense irregularities 

 of this vast area to the atmospheric 



bine to make the Salt River Valley 

 the ideal winter resort. 



As the manifold climatic advan- 

 tages, (chief among which are a 

 uniformity of temperature, mini- 

 mum humidity, and a maximum 

 amount of sunshine,) are becoming 

 more and more clearly recognized 

 by the medical profession in the 

 east and north, the tide of winter 

 travel is tending in this direction, 

 until Phoenix has come to be ac- 

 cepted as the Cairo of America. 

 Even more than Egypt, Arizona, 

 with its deficient rainfall, absence 

 of cloudy days, and high rate of 

 evaporation, is "The land of Sun- 



CuURP HOrsE. 



currents and to the storm centers 

 render certain parts of it a vast 

 sanitarium for the alleviation or 

 cure of every variety of pulmonary 

 disease and various other ailments 

 requiring a dry, warm climate. 



Far to the south on this plateau 

 is Arizona, which has certain 

 marked climatic characteristics 

 that distinguish it from any other 

 portion of the arid belt. Five hun- 

 dred miles from any large body of 

 open water, surrounded on every 

 side by vast, sandy deserts, it has 

 the natural conditions which com- 



PHuENlX, ARIZONA. 



shine." As it is not within the 

 path of storm frequency the se- 

 quence of weather is more uniform 

 than in more northern latitudes, or 

 on the same parallel farther east 

 In consequence of its distance from 

 large bodies of water, there is an 

 absence of fogs, which are so ob- 

 jectionable at the winter resorts of 

 Florida and California, and the dif- 

 ference of 15 F. in mean tempera- 

 ture between Colorado and Arizona, 

 allows an almost exclusive out- 

 door life, so essential to the exist- 

 ence of the tubercular patient but 



