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and cheap ; where the soil is rich, lasting and wonderfully prolific ; 

 where bounteous nature renders the greatest return for labor ; where 

 varied resources are being rapidly developed ; where excellent edu- 

 cational facilities are ever at hand ; where railroads will bring to his 

 door the luxuries of life and transport to market the produce of his 

 farm ; where neither cyclone, blizzard nor winter blast is known, but 

 the balmy, pure dry and life-giving air restores and preserves health, 

 imparting vigor to brain and muscle ; where schools, churches, news- 

 papers, society, intelligence and refinement abide and a rich territory 

 is developing into a great and prosperous State. 



CLIMATE. 



climate of Southern Arizona, is unsurpassed by that of 

 any part of the United States. It is destined to be the 

 great health resort and sanitarium of the continent. The 

 statistics of the various military posts in Arizona, show 

 that they are the healthiest in the Union. It is attested by the 

 signal service of the United States that in the Sacramento and San 

 Joaquin valleys of California, the average temperature is higher than 

 in any part of Arizona. The summer heat is never so oppressive as 

 it is in the cities of New York or St. Louis, while fogs and mists are 

 unknown. The atmosphere is warm, but it is so dry, clear and light 

 that the heat does not oppress. The busy farmer toils beneath the 

 summer sun without experiencing any discomfort, and sunstrokes are 

 unknown. 



I reprint from Hon. Patrick Hamilton's " Arizona for Homes," 

 the opinion of Dr. N. H. Matas, an eminent physician of Tucson, 

 Pi ma County. Speaking of Southern Arizona, Dr. Matas says : 



" With an average minimum temperature of 40 and maximum 

 of 80 for nearly eight months of the year, with constant sunshine, 

 dry and balmy air, green trees and grasses, and blooming flowers, 

 this climate constitutes a true paradise. 



The climate of Florida is far inferior to ours, and cannot be com- 

 pared but as a shadow of our winter resort. There is not the dry 



