6 SOUTHERN ARIZONA. 



and uniform temperature which we enjoy here, nor the light, elastic 

 and invigorating air we breathe for eight months. 



The celebrated shores of Italy and Spain cannot compare either, 

 with any spot of Southern Arizona as a winter climate ; and it is 

 only a question of time when the people of the East and other parts 

 of our country, and even from Europe, who have delicate health or 

 are actually afflicted with consumption, asthma, or other troubles of 

 the respiratory organs, will come here by thousands. 



How many perish yearly in our Eastern States, whose lives could 

 be saved if they only could breathe for six months, the air of this 

 region ! 



We have many of those invalids who have made their permanent 

 homes here. 



Our medical status compares advantageously with that of the 

 most healthy cities of the world, to the great disappointment of the 

 few physicians who live here. 



We have no blizzards, storms or sudden changes of weather, and 

 are free from many diseases and epidemics. 



Our death-rate is about ten per 1,000 population per year, 

 including mining, railroad casualties, old age, children, and people 

 from the surrounding country. 



In summer we have a rainy season in July and August, but even 

 then hardly a day passes without sunshine. 



From June to September we have hot weather, and some days 

 for a few hours, the thermometer will rise to 110, but, even at this 

 high temperature, the heat is not so oppressive here as it is in New 

 York or New Orleans when the thermometer marks 80. 



We never have any sunstrokes in summer, nor are we oppressed 

 by perspiration. The light, dry air absorbs it immediately, causing 

 a very agreeable, cool and refreshing sensation. Nights are always 

 cool and pleasant in summer. 



Southern California has advertised, with pride, its climate, 

 through the wide land ; but, if we consider that there are fogs, 

 rains, heavy cold winds, and atmospheric pressure, and constant 

 changes of air and temperature during winter, we must admit that 

 said climate is far inferior to ours ; and that as soon as the sick from 

 the East, and even from California, shall realize this fact, they will 

 come here in winter in preference to California or any other place. 



Hundreds of invalids from Los Angeles, and other parts of 

 Southern California, have come to spend the winter season here, and 

 have found out by experience the advantages of our climate to 

 theirs ; and many from the East begin to stop in Tucson rather than 

 venture the winter season of California. All are perfectly delighted ; 

 and it is only a matter of time when the fame of our winter climate 

 will bring an army of strangers from all parts of the world." 



