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tern in which ah out 1,700 children 

 attended school last year, while 250 

 were enrolled in private schools. 

 Twelve church denominations are 

 represented and all have commodious 

 houses of worship. The city has miles 01 

 pleasant drives leading to the surround 

 agricultural districts. Four lines of street 

 with twenty miles of track make access convenient to 

 all parts of the city and suhurhs. Electric communication with the 

 outside world is kept up through the lines of hoth the great telegraph 

 systems and hy long distance telephone. The city has over 900 suh- 

 scrihers in the local telephone exchange. The people of Phoenix have 

 a domestic supply of pure water from a system with capacity of three 

 million gallons a day pumped from a deep -well, and having no connec- 

 tion whatever -with the irrigating system supplied with water from 

 Salt River. The altitude of Phoenix is only 1076 feet, and this, com- 

 hined with the location of the city in a valley almost surrounded hy 

 hills, makes what is considered an ideal winter resort. The mean 

 annual temperature is 69.3 degrees, and the average wind velocity is 

 less than five miles an hour. Frosts are infrequent and then light. 

 The finances of Phoenix residents and visitors are -well looked after hy 

 five hanking institutions with correspondents all over this country and 



