Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 6, 1897, Page 4

orem SAAT ATES TRA LRT Tf, Shoes, Hats and Caps, Overcoat Specials: Gloves, Mittens, Trunks. and Valises. SAM ORECKOVSKY, Dealer in =e and Gent’s Furnishings. A COMPLETE LINE OF WOODSMEN’S SUPPLIES Such as Mackinaws, Rubbers, Mittens, Socks, Etc., at the Very Lowest Prices. I have 35 Men’s Overcoats carried over from a former stock that I will sell at prices that will sur- N 8 : : \ . N " N N \ ‘ N . ‘ . N N ~~) prise the natives. own figure, first-class overcoat for s didn’t mean what J say. and see me. call Call and see. SAM ORECKOVSKY, Leland Ave., Opposite Hotel Pokegama, seomammreseeress chain anne acitl sige VT ee BLY ELE UL SMUSASUSHASTMATHMT ETE. WAMU a Uh ne If you want an overcoat at your If I should advertise a ale at $2.00. you would think I Before Buying Elsewhere. DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE ‘Three Months... ' TWO Six Months ... $1.00 | ntered in the postomice at Grand Rapids Minnesota. as secoud-class matter. AN ARIZONA LETTER Charles J. McCord Writes Entertain- ingly Concerning the. Southwest. SAYS IT IS A RICH COUNTRY But Advises Minnesotans to Stay Away Unless They Haye Money to Go Into Business--Predicts a Great Future for That Section. Epirork HERALD-REVIEW: Having been ed -by numerous friends before leaving Grand R to write them relative to / and being unable to write an indivi dual letter,to each of them, L take adyantage of your kind request that I send you something for publication, by transmitting the following: Let me premise with the statement | that lama newcommer here and do not constitute myself an authority upon the subject, but have endeavor- ed to write as truthfully and intel- ligently as possible. To avoid mak- ing a complete jumble of the matter, I have divided it into suitable head- reful perusal of this arti- arily condensed and abridg- to my limited time and a: ed space, will not only show it to con- tain much that is suggestive and but will furnish food fer to owing pertinent, reflection. 1 have endeavored elucidate as clearly and concise s possible my ideas on the various sub- jects touched upon, and have been extremely careful to write nothing " but what I believe to be true. I wish to be clearly understood as saying that, 1 donot deem jt advisable for anyone to come here unless they have money to do business with and know beforehand almost exactly what they are going todo. Some localities are at the present time enjoying a most healthy growth—notably Tueson and Phoenix—but Yura and the sur- rounding country await the develop- ment of its latent resources, which can be brought about only by the completion or partial completion of projected enterprises, started or about to be started,and of which men- tion is-made. below. I would say to anyone conterpplating coming to this country that I think it.best to wait mnother year, the reasons for which POPULATION. Lying between 81 degrees utes and 109 and 115 degrees West Longi- tude; bounded of the north by. Utah, east by New Mexico, south by Mexico, west by California and Nevada; with a br st™ to west of 335 miles, le 390 miles, area of 113,000 square miles.or nearly 75,000,- 90 min- 000 acres, and containing a population | i figures are ssed of about+100,000, is the ‘“Sun- Land” of fruits and flowe ilk and honey, known in the political sub- sion of the Unifed States as izona Territory. The surface con- s of elevated table lands or mesas, intersected by mountains and inter- d by valleys of vast extent and e fertile than the valleys of the far-famed. River Nile. Irrigation is, of course, necessary to transform these valleys. into vitalized, prolific lands, and it is very gra ing to note that there seems to be no lack of capital for investment in irrigation enterprises. The State of Arizona Canal company are about to svart work on the constraction of a canal 56 miles long that will reclaim one hun- dred and tifty thousand acres of the finest citrus fruit land in America, if not in the world, that today is value- less, and make Yuma county the very richest part of the territory. It will take about fuur years to complete the work and. will benefit Yuma to no great extent-for another year or so, or until such time as the people feel as- sured that its completion is a fore- gone conclusion. Several enterprises of this nature have failed, and people are in consequence naturally a little sceptical. Arizona’s resources are alwost with- out limit. Its mountains are-nearly a wealth of mineral and precious stones, its forests the greatest in the Uuited States; its plains capable of sustain- ing vast herds of cattle aud sheep, and its valleysas rich as the social conditions prevaling in a certain vil- lage not many miles from where I nsed to live in Minnesota. CLIMATE. ‘The advantages of a mild, even cli- Inmate are so potent as to need buta passing mention. One who has ex- perienced tbe rigors, fitful changes, dampness and snow of an eastern or northern climate will, I can assure them, be delighted, infatuated and entranced with the beautiful, pure, dry, invigorating and exhilarating climate of Arizona. It is universally admitted that in places where the humidity (dampness) of the atmo- sphere is greatest, they heat is most oppressive. Everyoue kuows the dif- ference between a hot dry air anda hot.wet air. The highest shade tem- perature ever recorded a Yuma is 118 cCegrees. When the heat is at this point, the sensible temperature is about 88 degrees, making a difference of about 30 degrees between the mean temperature and the mean sensible temperature. In the north and east this difference rarely exceeds 5 degrees and is often nil. up very pure that when the morning nd 87 degrees North Lattitude, | th R 1 will become apparent by reading | rae Rerits erald= VW | surther. Published Every Saturday. | anizo ITS SITUATION, AREA AND Our atmosphere is | marks the highest extreme of ad one does not feel that oppression or debility which is feltin th: east and | north when the morning ranging | frem 80 to 90 degrees. [tis not only interesting and instructive, but ver important, that I make some com-| parisons on the relative humidity of | a few well-known localities in the ! United States: Yuma’s aver'ge is 44 per ceut; Oregon and Washington 8 Duluth 81, Chicago 71, New York New Orleans San Franc Florida nd San Diego 83. is "Lvese very suggestive aud should Ari be memorized. and unequaled in it tude and Climatic tween Flagstatfl in the north, with an altitude of nearly 7090 feet, and Yuma in the south, with an altitude of 141 | feet, invalids can easily find that aiti- | tude or climatic condition best suited | to their individual cases. Persons and am closing out at less than haaing throat or lung trouble’, 1 Ming stocks of XR a) A Mee cumatic or alaviak afilietiing orl oes eas whe igned, and s rheumatic or malarial afflictions or Edholm of West. Superior, who suffering with aervous disorders, tind great. relief and. often perminent.! these pianos is now going on, recovery. In -diseases peculiar to | expect all of them: to-be closed out ia ; j | ly next veek. Do you want a children this climate seems bal Ge ey ’ children this climate seems to be no? Ifso. get on the train and | particularly benign, especially during the summer months. Summer digest- | save you from ) to $200 and you ive disturbances, so common and fatal | ty never hav 2 ae > 3 WERE PS a anosare of the best to the people of the north and east, | jes and, by the order hardly exist here, and when they do, | to turn ‘them into are of a very modified type. Almost | 1 Tam selling them tl than everything startling, sensational and | | Seaton ayes ton a sale PREMIERE Rite HES {and per month e are selling absurd has been said of the climate | fine upright pianos at $98, $125, $127, of Arizona, yet there issno- authen lic | 8165, $150 and % They are of the record thatacase of genuine sun- | stroke ever occurred in the territory. For nite months in the year the clim- ate of Yuma has no equal, I believe, in the known world. During June, July and August the’'weather is hos. The residents here, without excep- tion will tell you that, but most of them will also tell you that they like 1t and could not live without it. As for myself, I could stand a less degree of heat and enjoy life fully as well. A friend recently wrote me: ‘So you are in Yuma? I always thought if you did net mend your ways you would wind up there. Give my re- gards to the devil.” Yes, its torr‘d- ity is rather extreme, but coupled with dry, pure air, necessarily free from infection, not only sustains and prolongs life in the human family, but it creates a condition impossible to excell for the propagation and the sustenance of lifein the animal and vegetable kingdoms. Everyone sleeps out doors. nights, and I, like others, have slept out for the past six weeks 2nd have found it to be most delightful and comfort- able. To be entirely fair, 1 must ad- mit that the older residevts say there comes a time earlier in the season when the starlit sky, a fig leaf anda look'of unconcern are sufficient cover- ing for the most delicate. I have had access to a cundensed record of the weather covering a period of 22 years, and it shows that on an average. the therinometer has fallen below the freezing point two days in each year. There are no sudden changes in this climate, they come gradually, or at the averge rate of two degrees a day. The average mean temperature for (CONTINUED ON EIGHTH PAGE.) | inclusive, at the rate of $ ‘ETO lickets from yout bome na stands unique . é 4 . | home agent or at the Union D, ' rieties of aiti- * 1 : < at: the C conditions. Be-! . sends Superior ice «building, | Duluth. ISS, Agt.. | | builder’s bands. | apy country. $4.89—5 Minnesota Stas Via St. Paul & Duluth R. R. Ex- cursion tic Paul and Miu- neapolis on sa nber 4th to 11th 4.80 for the Includas ticket of ad- mission to fair grounds. Tickets good returning September 13th. Purehare them via St. Paul & Duluth R.R., the shortest and quickest, and the line running three daily trains ng Duluth Union Depot 9a. p. m., and 11:15 p.m. eursion Retes—$4.e9 | 2 Fair. round trip. limitec Pianos at Less Than-Cost. leased the elegant store ab Vest Superic -» Duluth, went into ‘bankruptcy. The yme to Duluth d see me. Iocan following standard makes ew. Eng- land, Haines, Smith &*Co- ggs. We also have organs at $15, $20 and b2 Come in and see us at once. A. E. WmTney, Selling Agent. West Superior St., Duluth No. “‘Rinest Train On Wheeis’’ That is what Mr. Pullman says of of the Burlington’s new train be- tween Minneapolis and St. Paul and Chicago. Fivisbed throughout — in royal fashion, with wide vestibules, steam heat» and electric light, and composed of compartment and s} . buffet library car, chair dining car, it is without. an equal in ty country or abroad. No extra ar Better than the Best. Quick as the quickest, the Burling- ton Minneapolis and St. Paul-Chicago and St. Louis Limited. An Electric lighted, steam heated, wide vestibuled train, fresh from the Built av cost of over $100,000. Most beautiful, luxurious, comfortable, complete train ever placed in service on any railroad in The Burlington’s Beauty. tThat is what the St. Paul and Min- i neapolis papers c2ll our new train, ; the “*Minneayolis and St. Paul-Chica go and St. Louis Limited.” The Pioneer Press says that “No carson any railroad orin any country are equal to those of the Burlington's Limited. “Pullman’s latest and richest. "St. Paul Globe. % “Veritable palaces on wheels.”—St. Paul ispatch. “Grand beyon des: Tribune. * “The two real advance agents of prosper- ML. polis Journal. light, steam heat, wide | ves'ibules, compartment sleeping and buffet library cavs—everything that every other train hasand some things that no other train hes. cription.”—Minneapolis | | { i i Come in and Get My Prices ey queens eee STE EEL tT <i SE we fe meee aie ee Homesteaders Filings Upon Land Grand Rapids, Minn. A fee Sue Dae ae tia set St esi ae Seon 6 cel | Can save time and expense by proving up before E. C. Kiley, @ Judge of Probate, Grand Rapids. ere May also be made before him. The Expense of taking witnesses to Duluth or St. Cloud can be saved. ee All usiness “entrusted to my care will be given prompt attention. If You Wani to File: upon lands under any laws of the United States, or when you are ready to make final proof, call at the office of the Judge of Probate, Court House, Grand Rapids. E. C. KILEY. Rez Per LN ns b BETTER CIGARS ARE MADE THAN THE... - i Pokegama Boquet “Cup Defender Manufactured in Grand Rapids By CAb t*tt GEORGE BOOTH. for either of these brands and you will gat an excellent smoke, None'but the. finest stock used. For the above sum Broeker & Whiteaker are making as fine a suit as can be had in any city in the country for the money. Or, if you want something better, they can show you the finest line of samples ever brought into the county. Atany rate, give thema call before ,placing your order. They guarantee every garment . they turn out in every way. BROEKER & WHITEAKER, zt) -